Alex Raskolnikov (Columbia) presented A New View of Formal Equality at Sapienza University of Rome yesterday as part of its 20th Annual Conference of the Italian Society of Law And Economics: When it comes to equality under the law, the contemporary focus is decidedly on substance rather than form. This is especially so when economic

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Alex Raskolnikov (Columbia) presents Taxes and Tournaments, 2025 Mich. St. L. Rev. ___, at Sapienza University of Rome today as part of its 20th Annual Conference of the Italian Society Of Law And Economics: What is the best way to reduce economic inequality? Economists, lawyers, political philosophers and politicians have pondered this question for decades.

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Alex Raskolnikov (Columbia) presents Taxes and Tournaments, 2025 Mich. St. L. Rev. ___, at Sapienza University of Rome today as part of its 20th Annual Conference of the Italian Society Of Law And Economics: What is the best way to reduce economic inequality? Economists, lawyers, political philosophers and politicians have pondered this question for decades.

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Ari Glogower (Northwestern; Google Scholar) presents Apportioned Direct Taxes (with Conor Clarke (Washington University; Google Scholar) at UC-Irvine today as part of its Tax Law & Policy Colloquium hosted by Natascha Fastabend: In the 2024 case of Moore v. United States, the Supreme Court seriously considered, for the first time in the modern era, whether

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Ari Glogower (Northwestern; Google Scholar) presents Apportioned Direct Taxes (with Conor Clarke (Washington University; Google Scholar) at UC-Irvine today as part of its Tax Law & Policy Colloquium hosted by Natascha Fastabend: In the 2024 case of Moore v. United States, the Supreme Court seriously considered, for the first time in the modern era, whether

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Alex Raskolnikov (Columbia) presents Taxes and Tournaments, 2024 Mich. St. L. Rev. __:  What is the best way to reduce economic inequality? Economists, lawyers, political philosophers and politicians have pondered this question for decades. Yet there is another group of savvy and highly motivated individuals who have been thinking about redistribution for just as long.

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Alex Raskolnikov (Columbia) presents Taxes and Tournaments, 2024 Mich. St. L. Rev. __:  What is the best way to reduce economic inequality? Economists, lawyers, political philosophers and politicians have pondered this question for decades. Yet there is another group of savvy and highly motivated individuals who have been thinking about redistribution for just as long.

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Rebecca Morrow (Wake Forest; Google Scholar) presented The Income Tax as a Market Correction at Boston College yesterday as part of its Tax Policy Collaborative hosted by Jim Repetti and Diane Ring: I confess. As a tax professor, it has long hurt my feelings that economists label tax as a market distortion. My field is

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Rebecca Morrow (Wake Forest; Google Scholar) presented The Income Tax as a Market Correction at Boston College yesterday as part of its Tax Policy Collaborative hosted by Jim Repetti and Diane Ring: I confess. As a tax professor, it has long hurt my feelings that economists label tax as a market distortion. My field is

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Fernando Loayza Jordán (Drexel; J.S.D. 2025, Yale; Google Scholar) presents Contesting the Neoliberal Social Contract today as part of the What is Capitalism? Reading Group hosted by the Association for the Promotion of Political Economy and the Law:  The paper argues that progressive policymakers are often too quick to make discursive concessions to neoliberal understandings

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Fernando Loayza Jordán (Drexel; J.S.D. 2025, Yale; Google Scholar) presents Contesting the Neoliberal Social Contract today as part of the What is Capitalism? Reading Group hosted by the Association for the Promotion of Political Economy and the Law:  The paper argues that progressive policymakers are often too quick to make discursive concessions to neoliberal understandings

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Luís Carlos Calderón Gómez (Cardozo; Google Scholar) presents Too Hard to Insure at UC-Irvine today as part of its Tax Policy Colloquium hosted by Natascha Fastabend: New kinds of private money—such as stablecoin—are thriving, with increasing circulation, growing acceptance, and rapid technological innovation. But this new money has an old problem: its vulnerability to runs.

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Luís Carlos Calderón Gómez (Cardozo; Google Scholar) presents Too Hard to Insure at UC-Irvine today as part of its Tax Policy Colloquium hosted by Natascha Fastabend: New kinds of private money—such as stablecoin—are thriving, with increasing circulation, growing acceptance, and rapid technological innovation. But this new money has an old problem: its vulnerability to runs.

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Alex Zhang (Emory; Google Scholar) presents Fiscal Citizenship And Taxpayer Privacy, 125 Colum. L. Rev. __ (2025) at NYU today as part of its Tax Policy and Public Finance Colloquium hosted by Daniel Shaviro: Inequality has reached record levels, and the public shares a common belief that the ultra-rich—while accumulating enormous capital—have not borne their

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Alex Zhang (Emory; Google Scholar) presents Fiscal Citizenship And Taxpayer Privacy, 125 Colum. L. Rev. __ (2025) at NYU today as part of its Tax Policy and Public Finance Colloquium hosted by Daniel Shaviro: Inequality has reached record levels, and the public shares a common belief that the ultra-rich—while accumulating enormous capital—have not borne their

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Tuesday, November 12: Luís Carlos Calderón Gómez (Cardozo; Google Scholar) will present Too Hard to Insure as part of the UC-Irvine Tax Policy Colloquium. If you would like to attend, please RSVP here.  Tuesday, November 12: Alex Zhang (Emory; Google Scholar) will present Fiscal Citizenship And Taxpayer Privacy, 125 Colum. L. Rev. __ (2025), as

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Tuesday, November 12: Luís Carlos Calderón Gómez (Cardozo; Google Scholar) will present Too Hard to Insure as part of the UC-Irvine Tax Policy Colloquium. If you would like to attend, please RSVP here.  Tuesday, November 12: Alex Zhang (Emory; Google Scholar) will present Fiscal Citizenship And Taxpayer Privacy, 125 Colum. L. Rev. __ (2025), as

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Assaf Harpaz (Georgia; Google Scholar) presents Global Tax Wars and the Shift to Source-Based Taxation at Alabama today as part of its Junior/Senior SEC Workshop: Current debates in international taxation often center on how to fairly allocate taxing rights among different jurisdictions. When an enterprise earns income abroad, the country of residence (where the taxpayer

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Assaf Harpaz (Georgia; Google Scholar) presents Global Tax Wars and the Shift to Source-Based Taxation at Alabama today as part of its Junior/Senior SEC Workshop: Current debates in international taxation often center on how to fairly allocate taxing rights among different jurisdictions. When an enterprise earns income abroad, the country of residence (where the taxpayer

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Brian Galle (Georgetown; Google Scholar) presents How to Tax the Rich: Options for 2025 and Beyond at Emory today as part of its Faculty Colloquium Series: How should we pay for the future? This monograph describes and compares major proposals to reform federal individual income and transfer (that is, estate and gift) taxes. The Biden

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Brian Galle (Georgetown; Google Scholar) presents How to Tax the Rich: Options for 2025 and Beyond at Emory today as part of its Faculty Colloquium Series: How should we pay for the future? This monograph describes and compares major proposals to reform federal individual income and transfer (that is, estate and gift) taxes. The Biden

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Rebecca Kysar (Fordham; Google Scholar) presents Sunrise Legislation at UC-Irvine today as part of its Tax Policy Colloquium hosted by Natascha Fastabend: Certain philosophers and legal scholars have advocated for the increased use of “sunrise legislation,” which takes effect only after a delay. In their view, sunrise legislation can obscure the identify of those whom

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Rebecca Kysar (Fordham; Google Scholar) presents Sunrise Legislation at UC-Irvine today as part of its Tax Policy Colloquium hosted by Natascha Fastabend: Certain philosophers and legal scholars have advocated for the increased use of “sunrise legislation,” which takes effect only after a delay. In their view, sunrise legislation can obscure the identify of those whom

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