Paul L. Caron
Dean
Pepperdine Caruso
School of Law
Legal Education
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I Dreamed a Dream
By now, most of you have probably seen the incredibly powerful rendition by Susan Boyle, an unemployed 47 year old Scottish woman, of I Dreamed a Dream from Les Miserables on the Britain's Got Talent television show last Saturday: There was a time when men were kindWhen their voices were softAnd their words invitingThere was a time when…
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FutureFirm 1.0
The Law Firms Working Group, a project of the American Bar Foundation and the Indiana University School of Law—Bloomington, today hosts FutureFirm 1.0, a competition to envision the successful law firm model of the future. The event brings together corporate counsel from major corporations, partners from large law firms, associates, and law students from across the country, and consultants…
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Mehrotra Leads Tax Scholarship and Teaching Workshops Today at Chase
Ajay Mehrotra (Indiana) leads separate scholarship and teaching workshops at Northen Kentucky-Chase College of Law today as part of its Speakers Series: The Public Control of Corporate Power: Revisiting the Beginnings of the Corporate Income Tax Toward a Socio-historical Approach to Teaching Tax
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The W&L Free Alternative to bepress/ExpressO and SSRN
John Doyle of the Washington & Lee Law Library has developed LexOpus, a free article repository and law review article submission system as an alternative to bepress/ExpressO and SSRN: The aim of LexOpus is to assist authors and law journals with the submissions process. The system allows authors to submit their finished works to author-selected law journals,…
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UC Irvine Admits Strongest Entering 1L Class of Any Start-Up Law School
UC-Irvine announced yesterday that its inaugural 1L class is the most selective in the country and the entering qualifications of the class place in squarely in the Top 20: The University of California, Irvine School of Law has chosen its inaugural class by accepting only 4% of its applicants, making it the most selective of…
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UCLA Launches 1-Year Transition to Practice LL.M. Program for Jobless 3Ls
UCLA yesterday announced a Transition to Practice LL.M. Program, which will allow jobless and job-deferred 3Ls to take an extra year of classes to teach them the skills and practices they would have learned as first-year associates: A core component of the Transition to Practice program will be capstone courses that will draw heavily on practice-oriented projects in addition…
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Two Law Profs Sue West for Putting Their Names on a “Sham” Supplement to Their Treatise
David Rudovsky (Penn) and Leonard N. Sosnov (Widener) are suing West, claiming that they were falsely identified as the authors of a poorly researched “sham” supplement to their treatise, Pennsylvania Practice: Criminal Procedure Law, Commentary and Forms. The authors stopped working on the treatise when West cut their annual pay from $5,000 to $2,500 each. ABA Journal The Legal Intelligencer
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U.S. News Rankings of Part-Time J.D. Programs
U.S. News offers a sneak peak at its first-ever rankings of part-time J.D. programs (the complete rankings are scheduled to be released April 23): Georgetown George Washington Fordham American George Mason (Hat Tip: Above the Law.)
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Five-Year Anniversary of TaxProf Blog
Today (April 15) marks the 5-year anniversary of TaxProf Blog (and the 14-year anniversary of the TaxProf Email Discussion Group). I hope the blog has at least partially succeeded in its mission (announced in my very first post here) to provide both (1) permanent resources & links, and (2) daily news & information, of interest…
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Law Prof Blog Rankings
Below are the updated quarterly traffic rankings (visitors and page views) of the Top 35 blogs edited by law professors with publicly available SiteMeters for the most recent 12-month period (April 1, 2008 – March 31, 2009) [click on chart to enlarge]: These Law Prof Blog Rankings are drawn from Dan Solove's comprehensive Law Professor Blogger Census. …
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Northwestern to Allow Jobless Grads to Defer Student Loan Repayments
Chicago Tribune: Northwestern to Let Law School Grads With Deferred Jobs Postpone Loan Payments: Northwestern University Law School is trying to ease the pain of graduating students who face short-term unemployment because their jobs have been deferred. In an e-mail to students late Monday, David Van Zandt, the law school dean, said students can postpone…
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Why Faculty Are Like AIG Executives
Today's Inside Higher Ed: Incentivizing Failure: AIG and the Academy, by Christoph Knoess (Founder, Engaged Minds): America is up in arms about bonuses for AIG executives who raked up astronomical losses that have (almost) brought our economy to its knees. … In higher education we might shake our heads over the insane amounts of money…
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Foundation Press Publishes Property Stories, 2d ed.
Foundation Press has published Property Stories (2d ed. 2009), edited by Gerald Korngold (New York Law School) & Andrew P. Morriss (Illinois): This title provides a law student with an enriched understanding of fifteen leading property cases. It focuses on how lawyers, judges, and policy factors shaped the litigation, and why the cases have attained…
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125 Associates Accept Skadden’s Offer: 1 Year Off at 1/3 Pay
ABA Journal: Associate Plans a Year of Travel, Thanks to Skadden's No-Strings-Attached Offer Above the Law: Skadden's Sidebar: Phase One Complete Financial Times: The Economics of Paying People Not to Work New York Times: $80,000 for a Year Off? She'll Take It
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AAUP Releases Annual Faculty Salaries Report
AAUP Press Release AAUP 2008-09 Report on the Economic Status of the Profession AAUP List of Tables and Figures AAUP Individual University Data Chronicle of Higher Education: Professors' Pay Raises Beat Inflation; So Much for the Good News Inside Higher Ed: Murky Picture for Faculty Salaries Here are the Top 10 full professor salaries: All…
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Why Do Female Tax Profs Do Better in the SSRN Rankings Than Their Nontax Counterparts?
Sonja Starr (Maryland) has an interesting post, Women and SSRN: A few weeks ago, out of idle curiosity, I clicked on the SSRN “Top Law Authors” list. The list ranks authors by “total new downloads” of all of their pieces. I was surprised, in one respect, by what I saw. How many women would you…
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TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup
Saturday: Martha Stewart's Daughter Sues CPA After Getting $1m Tax Bill Call for Tax Papers: Critical Perspectives on Taxation Zelinsky: Obama Embraces Defined Contribution Paradigm The Tax Consequences of Catching Home Run Baseballs Sunday: Survivor Argentina: Richard Hatch Wants to Serve Supervised Release in Buenos Aires WSJ: Ten States Ponder Tax Increases; NYC to 12.62%…
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For Anyone With Parents or Grandparents in Florida
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Tax Profs Bogdanski, Prescott Are Finalists for Montana Deanship
Tax Profs Jack Bogdanski (Lewis & Clark) and Loren Prescott (formerly at Widener) are two of the five finalists for the Montana deanship. (Hat Tip: The Faculty Lounge.)
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Why Rankings “Will Never Die”
Robert Morse, Director of Data Research at U.S. News & World Report, blogs: Why College Rankings “Will Never Die”: [Kevin Carey (Policy Director, Education Sector), College Rankings Will Never Die, Chronicle of Higher Education]: Carey’s thesis is that the process of choosing the right college is becoming an ever more complex decision given the amount of information that high school…
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Who Games SSRN Download Counts?
Benjamin G. Edelman (Harvard Business School) & Ian Larkin (Harvard Business School) have posted Demographics, Career Concerns or Social Comparison: Who Games SSRN Download Counts? on SSRN. Here is the abstract: We use a unique database of every SSRN paper download over the course of seven years, along with detailed resume data on a random…
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More on The Law School 100 Rankings
In last week's post on the revised The Law School 100: The Best Law Schools in the United States (2009-2010), I said: Although the site claims that the ranking is "based on qualitative, rather than quantitative, criteria," there is no further description of the criteria used in coming up with the ranking. Stan Chess responds:…
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David Brennen Named Dean at Kentucky
Kudos to Tax Prof David A. Brennen (Georgia), who has been named Dean at Kentucky. From Tax Prof Darryll K. Jones (Stetson) of our sister Nonprofit Law Prof Blog: The University of Kentucky boasts a top tier law school, according to U.S. News and World Report, and Professor Brennen is a renowned tax scholar and…
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W&L Law Review Offers Summer Submission Program
The Washington & Lee Law Review offers a Summer Submission Program for articles submitted during May-July: The Board will complete its review and convey its decision to the author within two weeks The author agrees to accept an offer of publication made during the two-week period..