Paul L. Caron
Dean
Pepperdine Caruso
School of Law
Faith
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Things Worth Remembering: The Resurrection Of The Body And The Immortality Of The Soul
Douglas Murray (The Free Press), Things Worth Remembering: The Resurrection of the Body and the Immortality of the Soul: Preacher-poet John Donne gave voice to his faith with a sermon on how God will raise the dead. I wonder if there has ever been a bigger change in our collective way of thinking than in…
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NY Times: White House Of Worship — Christian Prayer Rings Out Under Trump
New York Times, White House of Worship: Christian Prayer Rings Out Under Trump: A cappella hymns rising in the Roosevelt Room. Prayer “in Jesus’ name” proclaimed from the Cabinet Room. Hands stretching out in the Oval Office, as pastors invoke Bible passages about how kings are established by God. From the moment Donald J. Trump…
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Are Faith-Based Law Schools Fairly Ranked By U.S. News?
Anton Sorkin (Director of Law Student Ministries, Christian Legal Society): Interesting observation from David Lat: “schools with a strong ideological brand, including religiously affiliated law schools . . . tend to fare well in rankings[.]” Imagine how well they'd fare if there wasn't a peer ranking penalty, tabulated by Michael Conklin at 17.65 in his…
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This Week’s Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
Legal Education: U.S. News, 2025-26 Law Specialty Rankings Constitutional Law Contracts/Commercial Law Criminal Law Dispute Resolution Environmental Law Health Care Law Intellectual Property Law International Law Chronicle of Higher Education Op-Ed (Phillip Levine (Wellesley College & Brookings Institution)), These 77 Colleges (And 45 Law Schools) Have The Most To Lose From Trump’s Cuts CUPA-HR, Tenure-Track…
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TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup
Saturday: This Week’s Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts 7th Circuit Judicial Council Dismisses Misconduct Complaint Against Federal Judge For Columbia Law Clerk Boycott Good Governance Is Taxing: The Implications Of Tax Policy For Separation Of Powers And The Major Questions Doctrine 2025-26 U.S. News Constitutional Law Rankings Winners Of The 2025 National Tax Moot…
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This Palm Sunday, Ponder Donkeys, Not Palm Branches
Christianity Today: This Palm Sunday, Ponder Donkeys, Not Branches, by Esau McCaulley (Wheaton College; Author, The New Testament in Color: A Multiethnic Bible Commentary (2024)): Christian churches throughout the world will begin our holiest week of the year on what is popularly known as Palm Sunday. It commemorates one of the few events in the…
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Good Friday Reminds Us Of The Ephemerality Of Human Power
The Atlantic: The Greatest Contribution of Christianity, by Peter Wehner (Senior Fellow, Trinity Forum): Nearly 15 years ago, I had the chance to ask Christopher Hitchens, one of the world’s most prominent critics of religion, a simple question: “What do you think is the greatest contribution of Christianity, either writ large in terms of society or…
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The Essence Of Good Friday: The Man On The Middle Cross
Alistair Begg (Senior Pastor, Parkside Church (Cleveland)), The Man on the Middle Cross Said I Can Come:
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Praying In The Shadow Of Gethsemane And Good Friday
Christianity Today: Praying in the Shadow of Gethsemane, by John C. Peckham (Andrews University; Google Scholar; Author, Why We Pray: Understanding Prayer in the Context of Cosmic Conflict (2024)): Even the most spiritually mature adults can struggle with the purpose and effect of their prayers—particularly when God seems absent or silent in their hour of…
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This Week’s Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
Legal Education: U.S. News, 2025-26 Law School Peer Reputation Rankings (And Overall Rankings) Donald Tobin (Maryland), XPT Top 25 Law School Rankings (Alpha Phase) Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), More Commentary On The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings U.S. News, 2025-26 Law Specialty Rankings Business Law Clinical Training Tax Law Wall Street Journal, Students At…
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TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup
Saturday: This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts Texas Supreme Court May No Longer Require Graduation From ABA-Accredited Law School To Practice Law In The State Former Georgia State Tenured Tax Professor Cass Brewer Joins Carlton Fields As Shareholder The High Cost Of Law School Casebooks Chodorow: Trump, Musk, Senate Republicans, And Your Taxes…
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NY Times: Can The Jesus Of History Support The Christ Of Faith?
New York Times Op-Ed: Can the Jesus of History Support the Christ of Faith?, by Ross Douthat (Author, Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious (2025)): The latest issue of The New Yorker includes an essay by Adam Gopnik, “We’re Still Not Done With Jesus,” on the scholarly debates about the origins of Christianity. In the piece, Gopnik positions himself…
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Why We Can’t Stop Talking About Jesus
The New Yorker Book Review: Why We Can’t Stop Talking About Jesus, by Adam Gopnik (reviewing Elaine Pagels (Princeton), Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesus (2025)): One subject that never dies, and, more significantly, never bores, is the life and times of the first-century Jewish rabbi and martyr Jesus, whose followers founded a…
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NY Times: Will Religion’s Remarkable Winning Streak At The Supreme Court Continue?
New York Times: Will Religion’s Remarkable Winning Streak at the Supreme Court Continue?, by Adam Liptak: In the space of a month this spring, the court will hear three important religion cases. The first one, to be argued Monday, asks whether a Catholic charity in Wisconsin should receive a tax exemption. In April, the court…
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Christian Lawyers In The Public Interest And Outside The Political Right
Jennifer Lee Koh (Pepperdine; Google Scholar), Christian Lawyers in the Public Interest and Outside the Political Right, 51 BYU L. Rev. ___ (2026): This Article provides an empirically-based portrait of a population that is typically hidden from the public eye and has received scant attention in legal scholarship: Christian lawyers who engage in public interest…
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This Week’s Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
Legal Education: Reuters, 2025 Multistate Bar Exam Scores Fall To All-Time Low Josh Blackman (South Texas), Harvard Law School v. Vermeule Yale Daily News, Yale Law School Terminates Scholar Amid Terrorist Link Allegations, Refusal To Cooperate, And Pressure From Trump Administration Reuters, Closure Of U.S. Department Of Education Imperils Law School Finances, Deans Say Jonathan…
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TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup
Saturday: This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts Hemel: Capital Taxation In The Middle Of History Symposium: Fifty Years Of Clinical Legal Education At American University Washington College of Law Will AI Replace Lawyers? Harpaz Presents Artificial Intelligence And Taxpayer Entity At Case Western Sunday: A Confessing Church for America’s Weimar Moment WSJ Op-Ed:…
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A Confessing Church for America’s Weimar Moment
Dispatch Faith: A Confessing Church for America’s Weimar Moment, by Paul D. Miller (Georgetown; Google Scholar): Most American Christians know the story of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German pastor who heroically defied the Nazis. He and a small number of other German Protestant leaders gathered, calling themselves the Confessing Church. They issued the Barmen Declaration in…
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WSJ Op-Ed: Flannery O’Connor’s Tales Of Evil And Grace
Wall Street Journal Op-Ed: Flannery O’Connor’s Tales of Evil and Grace, by (Jennifer Frey (Dean, Tulsa)): Flannery O’Connor, arguably the best Catholic writer this country ever produced, was born 100 years ago March 25 in Savannah, Ga. Her short life was marked by profound suffering: She was 15 when her father died of lupus and…
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Vanity Fair: Christianity Was ‘Borderline Illegal” In Silicon Valley. Now It’s The New Religion
Following up on last month's post, New York Times, Seeking God, Or Peter Thiel, In Silicon Valley: Vanity Fair, Christianity Was “Borderline Illegal” in Silicon Valley. Now It’s the New Religion: It’s mid-October in San Francisco, and a crowd of 200 or so congregants—some seated in pews, others standing below cathedral windows at the back—bow their…
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NY Times: Yeshiva University Agrees To Recognize LGBTQ Student Group After Five-Year Battle
New York Times, Yeshiva University Recognizes L.G.B.T.Q. Club After Lengthy Battle: Yeshiva University said on Thursday that it would recognize an L.G.B.T.Q. student club on campus, bringing to an end a bitter years long legal battle over whether the school could deny the group official recognition on religious grounds. Yeshiva, a Modern Orthodox Jewish institution…
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This Week’s Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
Legal Education: Derek Muller (Notre Dame), Law School Admissions Practices Continue To Look At The LSAT Like It's 2005 ABA Section of Legal Education, St. Thomas Law School Out Of Compliance With Financial Resources Accreditation Standard The Atlantic, The Feminist Law Professor Who Wants To Stop Arresting People For Domestic Violence John Bliss (Denver), Teaching…
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TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup
Saturday: This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts Hickman & Wildermuth: Harmonizing Delegation And Deference After Loper Bright The Feminist Law Professor Who Wants To Stop Arresting People For Domestic Violence Pepperdine Caruso Law Clinical Program Update Applications Are Open For Two ABA Tax Section Fellowships Sunday: ‘Severance,’ Suffering, And Faith Abraham Lincoln, The…
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‘Severance,’ Suffering, And Faith
Christianity Today, ‘Severance’ Makes a Case for Suffering: Mark Scout cannot bear the reality of his wife’s death. When he’s alone with his thoughts, he ambles over to the fridge, cracks open a beer, and dozes off with the TV on. When he heads to the office, he sticks his phone in a locker, lets…
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Abraham Lincoln, The Civil War, And Faith
Wall Street Journal Book Review: Amanda Brickell Bellows (The New School; Google Scholar), Calling Heaven to the Union’s Cause (reviewing Richard Carwardine (Oxford), Righteous Strife: How Warring Religious Nationalists Forged Lincoln's Union (2025)): As a young man in Illinois, Abraham Lincoln was a religious skeptic. Raised in the Presbyterian Church, he would later decline to…