Paul L. Caron
Dean
Pepperdine Caruso
School of Law
Legal Education
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Alabama Offers LSAT-Free Law School Admission
Alabama has joined Illinois and Michigan in offering selected undergrads the option of applying to its law school without taking the LSAT. Students in the University's Honors College with a 3.75 GPA are eligible to participate in the plan. ABA Journal National Law Journal Tuscaloosa News
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Nevada Resists Disclosure of Profs’ Outside Income
University of Nevada administrators and faculty are resisting proposed state legislation that would make professors publicly disclose their outside income. Inside Higher Ed Las Vegas Sun
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Columbia Launches Journal of Tax Law
Columbia Dean (and Tax Prof) David Schizer announced yesterday that the school is launching the Columbia Journal of Tax Law. The editor-in-chief is Suyash Paliwal. The inaugural issue is scheduled for November 2009. (Hat Tip: Melissa Oaks.) Coming on the heels of hiring Michael Graetz away from Yale and the emergence of Alex Raskonikov as…
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Foundation Press Publishes Death Penalty Stories
Foundation Press has published Death Penalty Stories (2008), edited by John H. Blume (Cornell) & Jordan M. Steiker (Texas): This title offers rich and detailed accounts of the most important capital cases in American law. In addition to comprehensive coverage of the "canonical cases" such as Furman v. Georgia, Gregg v. Georgia, Penry v. Lynaugh,…
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Tax Teachers of the Year
The AALS has announced that the following Tax Profs have been selected as the Teachers of the Year for 2007-08 at their respective law schools: William J. Brown (Pittsburgh) Samuel A. Donaldson (Washington) Lawrence A. Frolik (Pittsburgh) William H. Lyons (Nebraska) Michael T. Yu (California-Western)
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TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup
Saturday: Taxing Justice: Narratives of Evasion and Avoidance Critical Tax Conference Occhuizzo: Taxing Tenure Call for Tax Papers: LatCrit Conference Sunday: Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads It's Time for Major Tax Reform Estate Tax News Zotos: The Standard of Review in Collection Due Process Appeals GAO: IRS Needs to Better Monitor Tax Software
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Call for Tax Papers: LatCrit Conference
LatCrit XIV: 14th Annual LatCrit Conference has issued a Call for Papers and Panels for Outsiders Inside: Critical Outsider Theory and Praxis in the Policymaking of the New American Regime, Oct. 1-4, 2009, at American: The LatCrit XIV Host Committee invites the submission of proposals for panels and papers related to this open-textured theme and encompassing the fullest array…
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Late Grades (> 100 Days After Exam)
Law student reactions to George Washington 1Ls waiting over 100 days (and counting) for their Criminal Law grades (in a course taught by the dean): The Blackbook Legal Blog The Shark Sua Sponte
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Taylor: Laptops, Wi-Fi, Social Networks, Blogs, Email, and Podcasts in the Law School Classroom
Tax Prof Scott A. Taylor (University of St. Thomas) has posted Laptops, Wi-Fi, Social Networks, Blogs, Expert Daily Emails, and Podcasts: A Survey of Learning Enhancement on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Using a survey of students in an American law school course, I investigated learning enhancement through the use of laptops, social networks, blogs,…
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NY Times: It’s Time to Rethink Law School
New York Times: With the Downturn, It’s Time to Rethink the Legal Profession, by Adam Cohen: The economic downturn is hitting the legal world hard. American Lawyer is calling it “the fire this time” and warning that big firms may be hurtling toward “a paradigm-shifting, blood-in-the-suites” future. The Law Shucks blog has a “layoff tracker,”…
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Faculty Salary Data
The Society of American Law Teachers has published its 2008-09 Faculty Salary Survey, with median salaries of law faculty at the assistant, associate, and full professor levels at 95 law schools. Dan Filler (Drexel) today posted links to individual faculty salaries at: Colorado Georgia Georgia State Indiana-Bloomington Indiana-Indianapolis Iowa Kansas Michigan Rutgers-Camden Rutgers-Newark South Carolina Tennessee UC-Berkeley…
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Tax Planning for Professors on Visits and Sabbaticals
With today's expiration of the AALS deadline for accepting a visiting professorship for the 2009-10 academic year, I thought it would be a good time to re-post the article, Tax Planning for Professional Sabatticals, by Myron Hulen (Colorado State University, College of Business), William Kenny (Portland State University, School of Business Administration) & Anne L.…
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Sharing TaxProf Blog
Continuing our series of enhancements to TaxProf Blog: in response to several requests, we have made it easier to share TaxProf Blog content through various social networking sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, and Twitter, and through services such as Digg, StumbleUpon, Reddit, and Technorati. At the bottom of each post, you can click on…
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Annual Law Teaching Conference: Why Tax Rules — Teaching Students About Clients’ Biggest Moments Through Tax
The annual Institute for Law Teaching & Learning Summer Conference takes place on June 23-24, 2009 at Gonzaga University School of Law in Spokane, Washington. The conference theme this year is Implementing Best Practices and Educating Lawyers: Teaching Skills and Professionalism Across the Curriculum. The conference will feature 40 workshops that explore techniques for teaching…
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Law School 100 Ranking
With the law school world anxiously awaiting the April 23 release of the new U.S. News rankings, a reader sent along a link to the revised The Law School 100: The Best Law Schools in the United States (2009-2010). Although the site claims that the ranking is "based on qualitative, rather than quantitative, criteria," there…
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TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup
Saturday: 10th Circuit Denies $300k Charitable Deduction Claimed by Timothy McVeigh's Lawyer for Donation of Work Papers to University of Texas NYSBA Issues Report on Remedying Documentary Noncompliance by § 409A Plans Sin Taxes Disproportionately Hurt Minorities Sunday: Obama Names Elizabeth Garrett Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads CRS: Bill of…
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“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” SAT Policy Results in Diversity Gains
Inside Higher Ed: The Impact of Dropping the SAT: A new research study — based on simulations using actual student applications at competitive colleges that require the SAT or ACT for admission — has found that ending the requirement would lead to demonstrable gains in the percentages of black and Latino students, and working class…
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Is SSRN Spam?
Following up on Tuesday's post, Is Legal Scholarship Dead?: Dan Markel has a great post on The Schlagfest in Geo. L. J. and a Mild Defense of SSRN Emails… [I]n footnote 8 [of A Reply to Pierre, 97 Geo. L.J. 865 (2009)], I noticed her reference to SSRN emails as spam. Prof. West writes: When…
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Maryland Faculty Shoots Down Post-Tenure Review
Inside Higher Ed: Defeating Post-Tenure Review: Who reviews the performance of tenured faculty members? Can such reviews have teeth without interfering with the principles of tenure? Those issues are central to discussions of post-tenure review, a process that exists in some form at many colleges and can be controversial. The University of Maryland at College Park…
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WWAMD: What Would Arthur Miller Do?
A second preview (see the first preview here) of this weekend's 2009 NYU Law Revue: (Hat Tip: Above the Law.)
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Careers in Tax Law for Chicago Area Tax Students
The ABA Tax Section hosts Careers in Tax Law today for Chicago area tax students at John Marshall: The Section of Taxation co-hosts Careers in Tax Law panels at various law schools around the country to introduce J.D. and LL.M. students to careers available in the tax practice area. The career panels typically include three to…
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Private Law School at a Public Law School Price?
Inside Higher Ed: Competing With Publics on Price: In recent weeks, two private colleges have introduced or expanded programs in which they match the tuition price of local or regional public universities for some portion of the potential applicant pool.
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SSRN Tax Professor Rankings
SSRN has updated its monthly rankings of 579 American and international law school faculties and 1,500 law professors by (among other things) the number of paper downloads from the SSRN data base. Here is the new list (through March 13, 2009) of the Top 25 U.S. Tax Professors in two of the SSRN categories: all-time…
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Is Legal Scholarship Dead?
Pierre Schlag (Colorado), Spam Jurisprudence, Air Law, and the Rank Anxiety of Nothing Happening (A Report on the State of the Art), 97 Geo. L.J. 803 (2009): American legal scholarship today is dead—totally dead, deader than at any time in the past thirty years. It is more dead, vastly and exponentially more dead, than critical…