Paul L. Caron
Dean
Pepperdine Caruso
School of Law
Book Club
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Steven Dean Hosts A Conversation With Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor Today On Race For Profit At Brooklyn
Steven Dean (Brooklyn) hosts a conversation today at Brooklyn with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (Princeton), author of the book, Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership (University of North Carolina Press 2019) at 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM ET.
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Law Prof Novel: Cost Of Arrogance; L.A. Book Launch On Nov. 12
Although I read a lot of my faculty’s scholarship, Cost of Arrogance: A Jake Clearwater Legal Thriller by Harry Caldwell is the first faculty novel I’ve read. A book launch event will be held this Friday, November 12, from 2:00 – 5:00 PM PT at the Figueroa Brewing Company in Westlake Village, California: A despicable…
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The Afterlife Of Rachel Held Evans: Wholehearted Faith
The New Yorker: The Afterlife of Rachel Held Evans: When the beloved Christian thinker died, at thirty-seven, she left behind a legacy of constant spiritual questioning—and an unfinished memoir. … Although she was only thirty-seven when she died, Held Evans had become a beloved figure in the landscape of American religion. The author of five…
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NY Times Op-Ed: How I Learned That Jesus Is Black
New York Times op-ed: How I Learned That Jesus Is Black, by Danté Stewart (Author, Shoutin’ in the Fire: An American Epistle (2021)): For years, I made my home with white people in white churches. I knew how to run and to hide and to move my body in ways that made white people feel…
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NY Times Op-Ed: What Does A University Owe Democracy?
New York Times op-ed: What Does a University Owe Democracy?, by David Brooks: Last November, Dorian Abbot, a geophysicist at the University of Chicago, posted a series of slide presentations on YouTube making a case against the use of group identity as a primary criterion in selection processes. He was immediately targeted for cancellation. So Robert Zimmer, Chicago’s…
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The Secret To A Happy And Meaningful Life: Choose Suffering
Wall Street Journal Saturday Essay: Why We Choose to Suffer: The Struggle for a Meaningful Life, by Paul Bloom (University of Toronto; Author, The Sweet Spot: The Pleasures of Suffering and the Search for Meaning): In the search for a meaningful life, simply seeking pleasure isn’t enough. We need struggle and sacrifice. The simplest theory…
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Can Robert’s Rules Of Order Help Cure What Ails Universities, Law Schools, And America?
Inside Higher Ed, Author Discusses Robert’s Rules of Order and Why It Matters for Colleges and Universities Today: Robert’s Rules of Order was first published in 1876. And today it continues to influence many organizations that use the book, including colleges, universities and academic organizations. Princeton University Press has just published the original book along with…
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Foundation Press Publishes Criminal Law Stories (35th Book in the Law Stories Series)
Foundation Press has published Criminal Law Stories (2013), by Donna K. Coker (Miami) & Robert Weisberg (Stanford): This collection of case stories illustrates the balance, continuity, and evolution in substantive criminal law doctrine in light of the social and political contexts in which those doctrines are perennially tested. These stories focus on the pre-litigation behavior…
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In the South and West, a Tax on Being Poor
Katherine S. Newman (Dean, School of Arts & Sciences, Johns Hopkins University) & Rourke O’Brien (Ph.D Student, Princeton University), Taxing the Poor Doing Damage to the Truly Disadvantaged (University of California Press, 2011): This book looks at the way we tax the poor in the United States, particularly in the American South, where poor families…
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Brooks: Obama Should Embrace Graetz’s 100 Million Unnecessary Returns Tax Reform Plan
New York Times op-ed: Our Second Adolescence, by David Brooks: My main complaint with Obama is that he promised to move us beyond these stale debates, but he’s, instead, become a participant in them….My dream Obama would take advantage of the fact that only the president can fundamentally shift the terms. … My dream Obama…
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Call for Book Reviews: Michigan Law Review
The Michigan Law Review has asked me to post its solicitation of book reviews for its 2014 Survey of Books Related to the Law: The Michigan Law Review publishes an Annual Survey of Books dedicated to book reviews. Book reviews are not included in any other issue of the Michigan Law Review. The Survey includes…
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Townsend: Federal Tax Crimes, 2013
John A. Townsend (Houston), Federal Tax Crimes, 2013: This is the 2013:01 edition of the Federal Tax Crimes book that I started many years ago for use in a Tax Fraud and Money Laundering course at the University of Houston Law School. With some colleagues, we substantially revised that earlier version into a separately targeted…
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Brauner & Stewart: Tax, Law and Development
Yariv Brauner (Florida) & Miranda Stewart (Melbourne), Introduction, in Tax, Law and Development (Edward Elgar Apr. 2013): This book is the first collection of independent legal scholarship exploring the relationship between tax, law and the quest for human development. While acknowledging fully the challenge of tax competition in a global economy, this book rejects calls…
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Diamond Reviews Tamanaha’s Failing Law Schools
Stephen F. Diamond (Santa Clara), The Future of the American Law School or, How the ‘Crits’ Led Brian Tamanaha Astray and His Failing Law Schools Fails (reviewing Brian Tamanaha (Washington U.), Failing Law Schools (University of Chicago Press, 2012)): Debate over the impact of the economic crisis on the future of the American law school…
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Cato Hosts Book Forum Today on Tamanaha’s Failing Law Schools
The Cato Institute hosts a Book Forum today at noon EST (free live webcast here) on Brian Tamanaha (Washington U.), Failing Law Schools (University of Chicago Press, 2012)): For decades, American law schools enjoyed one of the world’s great winning streaks. Amid swelling enrollments and what seemed an insatiable demand for new lawyers, they went on…
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Unleashing Market Forces in Legal Education and the Legal Profession
Deborah Jones Merritt (Ohio State) & Daniel C. Merritt, Unleashing Market Forces in Legal Education and the Legal Profession, 26 Geo. J. Legal Ethics ___ (2013) (reviewing Brian Tamanaha (Washington U.), Failing Law Schools (University of Chicago Press, 2012)): Brian Tamanaha has written a thoughtful critique of legal education; we agree with his assessment and many…
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Campbell Reviews Tamanaha’s Failing Law Schools
Ray Campbell (Peking University School of Transnational Law), Law School Disruption, 26 Geo. J. Legal Ethics ___ (2013) (reviewing Brian Tamanaha (Washington U.), Failing Law Schools (University of Chicago Press, 2012)): Parked at the crossroads of higher education and legal practice, U.S. law schools find their once serene setting to be under siege. The legal…
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Schrag Reviews Tamanaha’s Failing Law Schools
Philip G. Schrag (Georgetown), Failing Law Schools — Brian Tamanaha's Misguided Missile, 26 Geo. J. Legal Ethics ___ (2013) (reviewing Brian Tamanaha (Washington U.), Failing Law Schools (University of Chicago Press, 2012)): Professor Brian Tamanaha’s book, Failing Law Schools, usefully collects in one place the recent critiques of law schools for reacting excessively to U.S.…
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Burman & Slemrod: Taxes in America — What Everyone Needs to Know
Leonard E. Burman (Syracuse) & Joel B. Slemrod (Michigan), Taxes in America: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford University Press, Nov. 22, 2012): Despite their passion and fury, contemporary Americans are remarkably clueless about how their tax system works. But with heated debates over taxation now roiling Congress and the nation, an understanding of our…
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Bard Reviews Tamanaha’s Failing Law Schools
Jennifer S. Bard (Associate Dean for Faculty Research and Development, Texas Tech) reviews Brian Tamanaha (Washington U.), Failing Law Schools (University of Chicago Press, 2012): The usual practice of The Journal of Legal Medicine is to not go out of our way to review a book we do not think would be of interest to our readers.…
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LexisNexis Publishes Federal Taxation of Property Transactions
On behalf of LexisNexis and the Graduate Tax Series Board of Editors (Ellen Aprill (Loyola-L.A.), Elliott Manning (Miami), Philip Postlewaite (Northwestern) and David Richardson (Florida)), I am delighted to announce the publication of Federal Taxation of Property Transactions (2012), by Elliott Manning (Miami) and David Cameron (Northwestern). The Graduate Tax Series is the first and only…
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Tax Policy Center Hosts Program Today on Federal Budget Politics and the Next President
The Tax Policy Center hosts a program today on Red Ink and Bad Blood: What Do Federal Budget Politics Mean for the Next President and You? (webcast here): Fiscal cliff. Taxmaggedon. Debt default. The Great Recession. Political gridlock. Sequestration. The making — or unmaking — of the federal budget is at play with each of…
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Morriss Reviews Tamanaha’s Failing Law Schools
Andrew Morriss (Alabama) reviews Brian Tamanaha (Washington U.), Failing Law Schools (University of Chicago Press, 2012), in the Library of Law and Liberty: Tamanaha … has written a timely, thoughtful, and provocative book about the state of legal education. … Tamanaha also writes extraordinarily clearly and precisely, and the book is a pleasure to read. The book is ultimately disappointing,…
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Brown: Implicit Bias and the Earned Income Tax Credit
Dorothy Brown (Emory), Implicit Bias and the Earned Income Tax Credit, in Implicit Racial Bias Across the Law (Justin D. Levinson (Hawaii) & Robert J. Smith (North Carolina), eds., Cambridge University Press 2012): In President Obama’s January 2011 State of the Union Address, he called for simplifying the tax code. There is no better place…
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AEI Forum: The Redistribution Recession
The American Enterprise Institute hosts a forum today on the new book by Casey B. Mulligan (University of Chicago, Department of Economics), The Redistribution Recession (Oxford University Press, Oct. 2012): The social safety net became more generous under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, and as a result massively altered employment patterns in the labor…