Paul L. Caron
Dean
Pepperdine Caruso
School of Law
Legal Education
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Stimulus Bills Would Amend § 265(b)(3) to Provide More Tax-Exempt Financing for Small Colleges
Inside Higher Ed reports that both the House and Senate versions of the stimulus bill would amend § 265(b)(3) to provide more tax-exempt financing for capital projects at small colleges (Stimulating Boon for Small Colleges, by Doug Lederman): [A] comparatively little noticed tax provision in both the Senate and House [stimulus] measures could make it…
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Do Rankings “Punish” Law Schools?
Michael Sauder (University of Iowa, Department of Sociology) & Wendy Nelson Espeland (Northwestern University, Department of Sociology) have published The Discipline of Rankings: Tight Coupling and Organizational Change, 74 Am. Sociology Rev. 63 (Feb. 2009). Here is the abstract: This article demonstrates the value of Foucault’s conception of discipline for understanding organizational responses to rankings.…
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Law Review Circulation Down 62%
From our article, What Law Schools Can Learn from Billy Beane and the Oakland Athletics, 82 Tex. L. Rev. 1483, 1534-35 & n.296 (2004): [L]aw reviews could be ranked, as are newspapers and other periodicals, based on circulation. Surprisingly, although the U.S. Post Office collects circulation figures for periodicals desiring reduced postage rates, we found no attempt…
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Welcome Aboard, Ken Hirsh
Kenneth J. Hirsh, formerly of the Duke Law Library, begins his tenure today as Director of the Law Library and Information Technology and Clinical Professor of Law at the University of Cincinnati College of Law. I have served on the Board of Directors of CALI with Ken for the past four years and am thrilled that we were…
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NLJ: 27 Law Schools Seek Deans
In this week's National Law Journal: Wanted: Law School Deans. Lots of Them. Dozens of Law schools Search for Leaders; Many Leery of New Demands, by Julie Kay: Even in this economy, there seems to still be a demand for one high-paying job — law school dean. At least 27 law schools throughout the country…
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Arizona State Faculty Face 12% Pay Cut by June 30
Scary news from the Arizona Republic: Arizona's public universities on Tuesday unveiled their offers to make cuts in their budgets this year, saying they would strip thousands of employees of weeks of pay and eliminate jobs and some programs. … [T]he proposal would require employees, including tenured professors, to take time off as unpaid leave.…
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Stanford Law Grad-Call Girl Pleads Guilty to Tax Evasion
I previously blogged 2001 Stanford Law Grad Cristina Schultz (now Cristina Warthen after her marriage to David Warthen, co-founder of the online search engine Ask Jeeves, now known as Ask.com), who was indicted in California federal district court for failing to pay taxes on $133,717 she earned as a prostitute in 2003 (United States v. Warthen, No. CR-08-682). From…
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NLJ: 3Ls Brace for Tough Job Prospects; Does Tax Offer Hope?
In this week's National Law Journal: The View from 3L: Law Students Brace for Tough Reality, by Karen Sloan: Although 3Ls aren't in despair, many of them are far less confident about what the future holds for them than the classes that preceded them. The article then profiles 3Ls at Georgia, Michigan, NYU, San Diego, Vanderbilt,…
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Unsuccessful Iowa Legal Writing Faculty Candidate Sues, Claiming Discrimination Due to Her Conservative Views
Teresa R. Wagner, Associate Director of the University of Iowa College of Law Writing Resource Center, has filed a lawsuit against the school and its dean, Tax Prof Carolyn Jones, claiming that she was twice rejected for a legal writing faculty position because of her conservative political views. From the Chroncile of Higher Education and Des Moines Register: She…