Paul L. Caron
Dean
Pepperdine Caruso
School of Law
Tax Prof Moves
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Jason Oh Named Lowell Milken Chair In Law At UCLA
Oh Receives Faculty Chair Appointment: UCLA School of Law Professor Jason Oh has received a faculty chair appointment in recognition of his substantial contributions to the study of tax law. … Faculty chairs acknowledge the distinction of the law school’s outstanding professors and are made possible by the incredible generosity of UCLA Law’s alumni and…
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Mirkay Named Associate Dean For Academic Affairs At Hawaii
New Associate Dean at Richardson Law Looks To Help Guide School Through Strategic Plan: As the William S. Richardson School of Law wrapped up one of the most challenging years of its existence, it has headed into a new year with a new Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, major plans in motion to reevaluate and…
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Former W&L Dean Brant Hellwig To Lead NYU Graduate Tax Program
NYU Law News, Brant Hellwig LLM ’00 to Lead Graduate Tax Program: Brant Hellwig LLM ’00 will join NYU Law on January 1, 2022 as professor of tax law and as the new faculty director of the Graduate Tax Program, Dean Trevor Morrison announced on October 1. Hellwig arrives at NYU Law after serving as dean and…
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Farewell (But Not Goodbye), Malibu
My wife and I are back in Cincinnati after spending the spring semester at Pepperdine University School of Law. We had a spectacular time in every respect. From my law school rankings work (What Law Schools Can Learn from Billy Beane and the Oakland Athletics, 82 Texas L. Rev. 1483 (2004); Ranking Law Schools: Using SSRN to Measure Scholarly…
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Darien Shanske Leaves UC-Hastings for UC-Davis
Darien Shanske (UC-Hastings) has accepted a lateral offer from UC-Davis as Professor of Law (with tenure), effective July 1, 2013. His recent publications include: Modernizing the Property Tax The Philosophy of Tax: A Review of David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King A New Theory of the State Corporate Income Tax: The State Corporate Income Tax…
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Vic and Miranda Fleischer Leave Colorado for San Diego
Tax Prof "power couple" Victor Fleischer and Miranda Perry Fleischer are leaving Colorado for San Diego where they will be tenured professors of law. Their recent publications include: The Supercharged IPO Equality of Opportunity and the Charitable Tax Subsidies, 91 B.U. L. Rev. 601 (2011) Taxing Founders’ Stock, 59 UCLA L. Rev. 60 (2011) Regulatory…
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Dorothy Brown Named Associate Vice Provost at Emory
Dorothy Brown was appointed on March 1 to a three-year term as Associate Vice Provost for Academic Affairs at Emory University: In addition to her regular teaching duties, she will report to the Provost and Executive Vice President and work on issues surrounding faculty career trajectories, including promotion and tenure practices within and across academic…
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Ruth Mason Leaves UConn for Virginia
Ruth Mason, Anthony J. Smits Professor of Global Commerce at the University of Connecticut, has accepted a lateral offer from the University of Virginia School of Law: Prior to joining the UConn faculty in 2006, Ruth Mason served as Deputy Director of the International Tax Program and Executive Director of the Graduate Tax Program at…
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Halperin to be Installed Today as Martin Ginsburg Visiting Professor of Taxation at Georgetown
Daniel Halperin, Stanley S. Surrey Professor of Law at Harvard, is being installed today as the Martin D. Ginsburg Visiting Professor of Taxation at Georgetown: “The selection of Dan Halperin seems especially fitting. A former member of the Georgetown Law faculty, Dan knew Marty Ginsburg well, and he is one of the country’s leading authorities…
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Tax Prof Moves, 2012-13
VAP Hires Yolanda Jameson (Carlton Fields, Tampa) to Florida Erin Scharff (Law Clerk, William A. Fletcher, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit) to NYU Entry Level Hires Andrew Blair-Stanek (McDermott Will & Emery, Washington, D.C.) to Maryland Caroline Chen (IRS Office of Chief Counsel) to Santa Clara Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic David Kamin (Special…
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Sam Donaldson Leaves University of Washington for Georgia State
Tax Prof (and Associate Dean) Samuel A. Donaldson is leaving the University of Washington School of Law to join the faculty at Georgia State University College of Law. Sam says "I am very excited for the move to Atlanta, as my fiancée lives and works there. It will be nice to be in the same…
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Allison Christians (Wisconsin) to McGill
Allison Christians (Wisconsin) has been named H. Heward Stikeman Chair in Tax Law at McGill University Faculty of Law, effective May 2012: Allison Christians is currently Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School in Madison. After receiving her J.D. from Columbia and her LL.M. in Taxation from NYU School of Law, Christians practiced…
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Retirement Ceremony Today for Dan Simmons
There is a retirement ceremony today to honor legendary UC-Davis Tax Prof Daniel L. SImmons. He is perhaps best known on the scholarly front as a co-author of the Foundation Press business tax, corporate tax, income tax, and partnership and s corporation tax casebooks (with the late Paul McDaniel and Marty McMahon). From Dan's faculty…
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Tax Prof in Paradise
I am thrilled to be spending the spring semester at Pepperdine University School of Law for my third stint as the D & L Straus Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law. My wife and I are looking forward to getting to know the new Dean, Deanell Reece Tacha, former Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of…
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Chris Pietruszkiewicz Named Dean at Stetson
Tax Prof Christopher Pietruszkiewicz (Vice Chancellor for Business and Financial Affairs and J.Y. Sanders Professor of Law at LSU) has been named Dean at Stetson University College of Law: Pietruszkiewicz has served in many national leadership positions in legal education. He has held several roles for the ABA’s Section of Taxation, and he currently serves…
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David Kamin Named Tax Prof at NYU
David Kamin (B.A. 2002, Swarthmore; J.D. 2009, NYU), Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy, has been hired as a tenure-track tax professor at NYU, beginning on September 1, 2012: Before law school, Kamin spent a year working on federal fiscal policy at the Committee for Economic Development, and two years at the Center…
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Caron Named Herzog Summer Visiting Professor in Taxation at San Diego
I am delighted to announce that I have accepted a three-year reappointment as the Herzog Summer Visiting Professor in Taxation at the University of San Diego School of Law. I am proud to continue my association with one of the country’s leading graduate tax programs and best tax faculties, strengthened even further with the addition of…
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Clarissa Potter Named Deputy Tax Director at AIG
Bloomberg, AIG Hires Ex-IRS Deputy Counsel Potter to Protect Tax Assets: AIG, the bailed-out insurer, hired Clarissa Potter, former deputy chief counsel of the IRS, to help protect tax assets accumulated by the firm. Potter will be deputy tax director. … Potter was previously an associate professor at Georgetown University Law Center and had worked…
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Tax Prof Moves, 2011-12
VAP Hires Kathleen Delaney Thomas (Cooley, New York) to NYU (2011-12) Allen Madison (Idaho VAP) to Wyoming (2011-12) Entry Level Hires Steven Arsenault (Charlotte VAP) to Charlotte Cassady (“Cass”) Brewer (Morris, Manning & Martin, Atlanta) to Georgia State John Brooks (Harvard Climenko Fellow) to Georgetown Jim Butler (Holme Roberts & Owen, Denver) to New Mexico Emily Cauble…
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The Shelf Project Goes to Washington, D.C.
University of Texas School of Law Alumni Magazine, Professor Calvin Johnson’s Shelf Project Seeks to Provide Congress with Efficient Revenue Options: Calvin Johnson has fifty ways to raise $1 trillion in taxes without raising rates, and he wants to convince Congress to adopt them. Now, he may get his chance. Johnson, the Andrews & Kurth…
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Back in San Diego
After a month back home in Cincinnati, I have returned to Southern California for my eighth summer teaching Tax I at the University of San Diego School of Law, my third as the Herzog Summer Visiting Professor in Taxation. San Diego is truly America’s Finest City, with spectacular weather, natural beauty, and a dizzying array of…
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President Obama Nominates Kathleen Kerrigan, Al Lauber to Tax Court
White House press release: President Obama announced today his intent to nominate Kathleen Kerrigan and Albert Lauber as Judges to the United States Tax Court. … Kathleen KerriganKathleen Kerrigan serves as tax and Social Security counsel for the majority staff of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. She is also the staff director…
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Mihir Desai Accepts Joint Tenured Professorship at Harvard Law School
HBS’s Mihir A. Desai Accepts Joint Tenured Professorship With HLS: Mihir A. Desai, who currently serves as the Mizuho Financial Group Professor of Finance, the Senior Associate Dean for Planning and University Affairs, and the Chair of Doctoral Programs at Harvard Business School, has accepted a joint appointment to the faculty of Harvard Law School…
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Farewell (But Not Goodbye), Malibu
My wife and I are back in Cincinnati after spending the spring semester at Pepperdine University School of Law. We had a wonderful time in Malibu and are grateful to Interim Dean Tom Bost and the Pepperdine faculty, staff, and students for making our stay so enjoyable. We especially appreciated the opportunity to live in the Pepperdine home on Broad…
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Clarissa Potter to Leave IRS in June
Potter to Leave IRS in June. 2011 TNT 87-6 (May 5, 2011): Clarissa Potter, IRS deputy chief counsel (technical), will step down from that position in June to take a position in the private sector. News of her departure was first announced in a May 3 internal memorandum sent by IRS Chief Counsel William J.…