Paul L. Caron
Dean
Pepperdine Caruso
School of Law
Law School
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Lauber Appointed Director of Georgetown’s Graduate Tax Program
Georgetown University Law Center Dean T. Alexander Aleinikoff announced today that he has appointed Albert G. Lauber, Jr. as director of the school’s graduate tax and securities programs. Lauber, most recently a partner at Caplin & Drysdale, is a former deputy solicitor general of the United States. He succeeds Michael J. Grace, who served as…
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Vermont Seeks Tax Visitor for Fall 2006
Vermont Law School is looking for a visitor to teach the basic Personal Income Tax course (4 credits) and a Business Tax course (3 credits) for fall semester 2006. For more information or to apply, contact Stephanie J. Willbanks, Vice Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law, here.
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Former Stanford Dean Fails California Bar Exam
Interesting front page story in this morning’s Wall Street Journal: Raising the Bar: Even Top Lawyers Fail California Exam; Former Stanford Law Dean, Becomes Latest Victim; A Mayor Tries Four Times: Kathleen Sullivan is a noted constitutional scholar who has argued cases before the Supreme Court. Until recently, she was dean of Stanford Law School.…
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NY Times on Lawsuit Against BAR/BRI
Interesting article in Sunday’s New York Times: Are Lawyers Being Overbilled for Their Test Preparation?: Many executives dream of dominating their industries the way BAR/BRI does the business of helping law school graduates prepare for bar examinations. Every law student knows BAR/BRI. Hundreds of thousands of them have taken its courses to pass the bar,…
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Gates Donates $33 Million to Univ. of Washington for Scholarships to 5 Students Per Year Who Agree to Practice Public Interest Law
The University of Washington School of Law has received a $33.3 million gift from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to provide a free ride for five new students a year who commit to working in public-service law after they graduate. From today’s Chronicle of Higher Education: The donation from the $28.8-billion foundation will create…
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Seattle Opens Indian Estate Planning Institute
Seattle University School of Law has opened an Indian Estate Planning Institute: The Institute for Indian Estate Planning & Probate has a three-fold mission. First, it will assist Indian people in making informed decisions about their property by providing free and reduced-cost estate planning services to individuals. Second, it will provide estate planning and probate…
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Law Schools Could Face Age Discrimination Lawsuits Over Faculty Hiring
A forthcoming article in the Virginia Journal of Social Policy by Douglas Richmond (Aon Risk Services) and Ethan Burger (American University, School of International Service) argues that law school hiring practices are vulnerable to age discrimination lawsuits. From the Virginia press release: The issue, Richmond summed up, is that “If you’ve practiced for longer than…
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“Harvard Law on a Heterodox Spree, Listing to Right”
Interesting article in the New York Observer: Harvard Law on a Heterodox Spree, Listing to Right. The Volokh Conspiracy has more here and here.
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William & Mary Wins 2005 Deloitte Tax Case Study National Competition
Student teams WIlliam & Mary won both the graduate and undergraduate divisions at the fourth annual Deloitte Tax Case Study National Competition, held in Orlando, FL. From the Deloitte press release: The Williamsburg, Virginia college prevailed over a field of 12 student teams from universities and colleges across the country to become the first school…
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Oregon Refuses to Pay Legal Fees of Law Prof Threatened with Lawsuit Over Law Review Article
Interesting story in this morning’s Inside Higher Ed: Twisting in the Wind. Merle Weiner (Oregon) published Strengthening Article 20, 38 U.S.F. L. Rev. 701 (2004), which argues that Article 20 of the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction should be strengthened to offer more protection for domestic violence victims who flee…
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LexisNexis Publishes First Book in Graduate Tax Series
On behalf of LexisNexis and the Graduate Tax Series Board of Editors (Ellen Aprill (Loyola-L.A.), Elliott Manning (Miami), Philip Postlewaite (Northwestern) & David Richardson (Florida)), I am delighted to announced the publication of the first book in our Series, Civil Tax Procedure, by David Richardson (Florida), Jerome Borison (Denver), and Steve Johnson (UNLV). The Graduate…
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Showing Movie Clips in Class
For those of you who like to spice up your classes with movie clips: here’s an interesting article on how to do it. (Hat Tip: Robert Ambrogi.)
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Hickman Debuts in Blogosphere with Post Questioning Use of PowerPoint in Tax Class
A hearty blogosphere welcome to Kristin Hickman (Minnesota), who is guest blogging on PrawfsBlawg. Her maiden post recounts her use of PowerPoint for the first time this semester in teaching Tax I. She is stinting in her praise of PowerPoint: On the one hand, the PowerPoint is easier to read than my handwriting, and it’s…
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National Research Council to Rank Doctoral Programs Using Quantitative Data Rather Than Reputation Surveys
Inside Higher Ed reports today that the National Research Council has launched its latest study to assess U.S. research doctorate programs. Like previous efforts in 1983 and 1995, the new study is designed to: Help universities improve their doctoral programs through benchmarking Benefit the nation’s research capacity by improving the quality of doctoral programs and…
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Peroni Wins Texas Teaching Award
Robert J. Peroni (Texas) has won the 2006 Texas Exes’ Faculty Teaching Award. From the Texas Exes’ press release: The Texas Exes Teaching Awards recognize one professor and one TA in each college who have had a positive influence on the educational experience of university students. The purpose of these awards is to promote quality…
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Law Teaching in Pajamas
Steve Bainbridge (UCLA) has an interesting post on webcasting law school classes: This Could Give Pajamas Media a Whole New Meaning: From the Daily Bruin: Fourth-year history student Daniel Benji never used to miss lectures if he could help it. Only an emergency could have kept him away. But that was before BruinCast, a new…
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Scholars Accused of “Conceptual Plagiarism”
Interesting article in the Sunday newspapers from Knight Ridder Newspapers: Who Owns An Idea? Scholars Take Sides; Sociology Book Spurs "Conceptual Plagiarism" Charge: Last winter, when a University of Pennsylvania sociologist, Elijah Anderson, first heard a colleague’s summary of her forthcoming book, he thought he was hearing an echo of his own work. Today that…
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Papers Due Monday for ABA Law Student Tax Challenge
Written submissions are due Monday for the 5th Annual Law Student Tax Challenge ("LSTC"), sponsored by the ABA Section of Taxation Young Lawyers Forum. This year for the first time, both J.D.s and LL.M.s attending ABA-accredited law schools are invited to participate in the one of the country’s largest and most prestigious tax competitions. The…
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Who Are the “Hot” Tax Profs?
Interesting article on Slate: The Hottest Professor on Campus; What Happens When Students Rate Their Teachers Online Dear Professors, the college students of America are silently judging you. While you are nattering on in lecture, they are clicking over to RateMyProfessors.com—remember, more than 42% of college classrooms now have wireless—and assessing your performance. As of…
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Slate: Are Faculty Bloggers Risking Their Jobs?
Interesting article on Slate: Attack of the Career-Killing Blogs; When Academics Post Online, Do They Risk Their Jobs? [Editor’s note: Yikes!]: "Here goes nothing. I shouldn’t be doing this. I’ll be going up for tenure soon," reads the first post of the blog that University of Chicago political scientist Daniel Drezner started in September 2002.…
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What It Really Takes To Be a Professor
With post-meat market call backs now in full swing, this article from the Wall Street Journal’s CollegeJournal.com may be particularly timely: What It Really Takes To Be a Professor. The article contains a lengthy interview with Geoffrey R. Stone (Chicago).
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Indiana Faculty Votes “No Confidence” in University President
Today’s Chronicle of Higher Education reports that the faculty council at Indiana-Bloomington yesterday voted "no confidence" in President Adam W. Herbert, Jr.’s leadership: The resolution, which passed overwhelmingly by a show of hands, lists several "serious allegations" that faculty members said have been made against the president by various people, including senior administrators, board members…
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Albany Shrinks Class Size, Increases Tuition to Improve Rankings
On Monday, we blogged Tax Prof William J. Quirk’s proposal to move South Carolina into the U.S. News Top 50 by reducing both class size and tuition. Press reports explain Dean Thomas Guernsey’s approach to improve Albany’s ranking by reducing class size 25% while increasing tuition 50%: Thomas Guernsey is on a mission to make…
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Law Student Placement in Elite Law Firms
Anthony Ciolli has published The Legal Employment Market: Determinants of Elite Firm Placement, and How Law Schools Stack Up, 45 Jurimetrics J. 413 (2005): Data collected on 15,293 law firm associates from 1295 employers who graduated from law school between 2001 and 2003 were used to develop a “total quality score” for every ABA-accredited law…
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Yet More on “Law Porn”
See the feature "spotlight" this morning on law.com’s law student site, Is "Law Porn" Eating Away Your School’s Endowment? (For prior TaxProf Blog coverage, see here, here, here, and here.)