Paul L. Caron
Dean
Pepperdine Caruso
School of Law
Miscellaneous
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Christmas Gifts for that Special Tax Person
Any of the three books I published in 2009 would make a great Christmas gift for that special tax person: Tax Stories (Foundation Press, 2d ed. 2009): This book explores the historical contexts of seminal federal income tax cases and the role they continue to play in our current tax law. Each of the chapters sets forth…
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Christmas Gifts for that Special Tax Person
For sale on eBay: items related to IRS action figure Irwin R. Schyster (modeled after WWF wrestler Mike Rotunda): Action figure Autographed photograph Trading card His signature lines: "I'm gonna write you off!" "You can pay me now, or you will pay me later!" "It's time to cut the crying, and start paying!" "Even the dead…
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Christmas Gifts for that Special Tax Person
Continuing a TaxProf Blog holiday tradition, I will offer some gift ideas for that special tax person in your life. Today's suggestion: For Counsel (Products and Gifts for Lawyers) sells an exact reproduction of the original 1913 Form 1040: Four pages long, including one page of instructions. Impressively framed in classic mahogany with beaded edge and…
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Off to the Big Dance®
For those of you who asked (or might be interested) following my Saturday post on my freshman son's college soccer team: for the first time in school history, the team qualified for the NCAA Division III National Tournament following a second thrilling conference tournament victory in a penalty kick shootout after the game remained tied through two…
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The Good and the Bad in Sports
I am at my college-freshman son's conference soccer tournament this weekend, with an NCAA Division III Tournament bid on the line for the winning team. It was been a long journey, from select and high school soccer through his first college game and this remarkable season. Their pulsating win in the semi-final yesterday, 7-6 on penalty kicks after the game finished 0-0…
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1040 Tax Form Paperweight
Another item for your tax bric-a-brac collection, from the Museum of Modern Art: a 1040 Tax Form Paperweight: Three-dimensional wit for the desktop and a delightful way to hold down papers. Tibor Kalman's typically clever style is evident in this rigid silk-screened vinyl paperweight, hand-crumpled and wrapped around a steel weight. The 1040 tax form…
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Father and Daughter at the Ballpark
Check out this priceless video at last night's Phillies-Nationals baseball game.
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Keeping in Touch With Your Child at College
As I' have previously noted (here and here), I am grappling with the mixed emotions of my older child's departure to college three weeks ago. Thankfully, technology has made it quite easy to keep in touch with him: Facebook, Twitter Revolutionizing How Parents Stalk Their College-Aged Kids
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Georgetown Baseball Program Placed on NCAA Probation
Yesterday, in blogging about attending my son's first college soccer game, I mentioned my underwhelming college baseball career at Georgetown. Thanks to the wonders of the Internet, I found this picture from the student newspaper recording one of my few highlights — scoring in a rare win against Navy. (If you think I am being falsely modest, check out these stats, showing that…
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The Downside of an iPhone
One of the things I love about my iPhone is the ability to multitask my way through the day. I pound out email whenever and wherever I can — waiting in line at the grocery store, before and during breaks in my kids' games, while watching Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert before I go to bed, etc. I…
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A Bittersweet Day
My excitement today in teaching our Introduction to Law course to a section of our eager and talented 1Ls is tempered at having to bid farewell to my son Reed, who has left home for his freshman year of college. Reed, it was a gut-wrenching and poignant weekend, as we hustled to get everything in order for your trip. …
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Five iPhone Apps for Lawyers
Five Apps for the Lawyer, by Lauren Hirsch: It's official. The iPhone has come into its own in the legal world. It took a little time, and lawyers are notorious Luddites (you can pry the WordPerfect out of their cold, dead hands) but they do like Bright Shiny Objects, and nothing fills the lapel pocket…
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Tax Prof Vegan
As the father of a new vegan, I enjoyed the posts by Tax Prof Neil Buchanan (George Washington) on the one-year anniversary of joining the 1% of Americans who are vegans, especially his concluding thoughts: I have always loved animals. I now express that love by refusing to contribute to their pain and death. That is an anniversary worth…
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Breakthrough Cincinnati
I spent a wonderful afternoon at graduation ceremonies at Breakthrough Cincinnati — the local chapter of the nationwide Breakthrough Collaborative. The program provides six weeks of academic classes (math, science, English, history, and foreign languages) for inner city students from a faculty of high school and college students. Both of my kids taught in the program — they got as much (or…
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Back Home in Cincinnati
Although I loved my seven weeks in San Diego, it's wonderful to be back home with my family in Cincinnati. I feel blessed to have the opportunity to teach at two great law schools – the University of Cincinnati and the University of San Diego are very different (small, public, secular v. large, private, Catholic), but they are remarkably similar in having…
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Farewell, San Diego!
This is a bittersweet day for me, as I leave San Diego after seven weeks to return home to Cincinnati. This was my sixth summer teaching at the University of San Diego School of Law, my first as the Herzog Summer Visiting Professor in Taxation. My thanks to the kind folks at USD for having me…
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Form 1040: The Puzzle
I previously blogged my purchase of a Form 1040 Puzzle, which I have added to my extensive collection of tax bric-a-brac. Leandra Lederman (Indiana-Bloomington) reports that she and her colleague Aviva Orenstein have completed side one of the puzzle — note the (loop)hole in the income section! Aviva says that it took about as much time to complete the puzzle…
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Taxes and the Declaration of Independence
From the TaxProf Blog vault: a July 4th post by Neil Buchanan (George Washington) during a guest blogging stint here: I thought I would take another look at our oft-mentioned and seldom-read Declaration of Independence to see what it has to say about taxes and other issues of import. Herewith, a quick (and admittedly incomplete) summary of…
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Smartphone Buyer’s Guide
For those in the market for a new smartphone, Gizmodo has a wonderful Smartphone Buyers Guide: The Best of the Best: As the dust settles from the last two weeks of mobile madness, one question remains unanswered: Which of the new generation of smartphones should you actually buy? We've collected everything you need to know.…
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Off to San Diego
I am off to San Diego for my sixth summer teaching Tax I at the University of San Diego School of Law, my first as the Herzog Summer Visiting Professor in Taxation. San Diego is truly America's Finest City – the climate and environment are simply spectacular. My family is joining me for the first…
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Graduation Day
Reed, congratulations on your high school graduation today. Although I am bursting with pride at your many academic and athletic accomplishments, I am prouder still of simply who you are and the man you are becoming. After spending many years as your coach and later sideline cheerleader, I was awed to watch you receive your school's best athlete award. But even more touching…
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17th Birthday in NYC
I just returned from a whirlwind 56-hour trip to New York City to celebrate my daughter's 17th birthday. Jayne, I had a spectacular time – visiting two colleges, power-walking from Times Square to Battery Park (and then deciding to invest in an all-day subway pass), watching you excitedly rummage through a Greenwich Village music store, discovering your California-favorite Jamba Juice, having lunch with you at…
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Congratulations, Adam Steinman!
Congratulations to my friend and colleague Adam Steinman — the University of Cincinnati Board of Trustees today approved his promotion to full professor with tenure, effective September 1, 2009. Adam is an amazingly productive and thoughtful scholar in the civil procedure and federal courts area, award-winning teacher, and wonderful institutional citizen. I was on the appointments committee the…
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Goodbye, Class of 2009
The University of Cincinnati College of Law sent off the Class of 2009 into the world today at our graduation ceremony. They are our 176th graduating class, making us the fourth-oldest conitnuously operating law school in the country. It is always a reflective day for the faculty, as we watch with pride as each of…