Paul L. Caron
Dean
Pepperdine Caruso
School of Law
Tax Profs
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Tulsa Looking to Hire Tax Prof
Tulsa is looking to hire a Tax Prof (either entry-level or lateral) to begin Fall 2006: The University of Tulsa College of Law invites applications from both entry-level and experienced faculty for one or more tenure-track and/or visiting faculty position(s) beginning in the 2006-2007 academic year. Areas of teaching interest likely include: UCC, corporate law,…
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Villanova Looking to Hire Tax Prof
Villanova University School of Law is seeking to fill up to three tenure-track faculty positions beginning in the 2006-2007 academic year. Both entry-level and experienced candidates are encouraged to apply. The school has a particular need for candidates qualified to teach and conduct scholarship in tax (especially estate and gift tax, international tax, and deferred…
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Hess Receives 2005 Treat Award for Excellence
Amy Morris Hess (Tennessee) has won the 2005 Treat Award for Excellence from the National College of Probate Judges in recognition of her many contributions to the development of probate and trust law. According to the Tennessee press release, she has received many other awards at Tennessee in recognition of her scholarship, teaching, and service,…
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Beale Joins Tax Prof Blogosphere
A hearty welcome to Linda Beale (Illinois), who has joined the Tax Prof Blogosphere with A Taxing Matter. From her inaugural post: This is the inaugural posting for a new blog about U.S. federal income and payroll taxes. My focus is on ordinary Americans, people who work for a salary or run their own small…
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Hofstra Looking to Hire Tax Prof
Hofstra Law School is expanding its faculty and seeks experienced lateral applicants for tenured and tenure-track faculty positions to begin in the 2006-2007 academic year. Hofstra seeks applications in all areas of law, but has strong curricular needs in a variety of areas, including tax. For more information or to apply, email Professor Nora V.…
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Wayne State Looking to Hire Tax Prof
Wayne State is looking to hire an entry-level or lateral tax professor: Wayne State University Law School seeks experienced and entry-level candidates for several law teaching positions. Areas of particular interest include taxation. For more informataion or to apply for the position, please contact Professor Gregory H. Fox, Chair, Faculty Appointments Committee either via email…
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Thoughts and Prayers for Louisiana Tax Faculty
As Hurricane Katrina tears through Louisiana and neighboring states, our thoughts and prayers go out to our tax colleagues at the most affected law schools: Louisiana State: Susan Kalinka Christopher M. Pietruszkiewicz Loyola-New Orleans: Cynthia Garrison LePow William A. Neilson Southern: John K. Pierre Tulane: John K. Eason Marjorie E. Kornhauser Daniel Q. Posin
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Houston Business and Tax Law Journal Is Seeking Tax Articles
The Houston Business and Tax Law Journal is seeking articles for its 2005-2006 volumes: The HBTLJ is a scholarly journal operated, published and distributed by students of the Law Center. As the name indicates, the HBTLJ covers a diverse range of legal issues related to business and tax. Some, but not all, of these issues…
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Kingsfield Bonds?
The Wall Street Journal has an interesting article on Bowie Bonds — securities which carve out future royalties owed to musicians and are sold to wealthy investors (named after the first such securities sale in 1997 based on the royalties on the music of David Bowie, which fetched $55 million). This got me to thinking: …
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Can Law Profs Deduct Flat-Screen TVs?
Paul Horwitz has a great post on PrawfsBlawg: Toward a General Theory of Writing Off the Purchase of a Flat-Screen TV as a Job-Related Expense. Here is the opening: I am always humbled and awed by the breadth of law school subjects for which television shows serve as a vital pedagogical resource. As one…
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Miller Prosecutes Rose
The federal prosecutor who secured the conviction of Larken Rose for tax evasion (blogged here) is Floyd Miller, Assistant U.S. Attorney, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, and an adjunct tax faculty member at Temple and Rutgers-Camden.
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Practitioners’ Guide to Law School Rankings
The new 2005/2006 BCG Attorney Search Guide to Class Ranking Distinctions and Law Review Admission at America’s Top 50 Law Schools (296-behemoth) has an extended discussion of law school rankings. It argues that the U.S. News rankings are invalid when you get beyond, say, the top fifteen. Outside of, the fifteen elite schools, the rankings…
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Penn State Looking to Hire Tax Prof
Penn State University’s Dickinson School of Law invites applications for both established and entry-level scholars for several tenured and tenure-track faculty positions beginning in 2006, 2007, and 2008. The law school has immediate needs for scholars whose work focuses on business associations, tax, securities, mergers and acquisitions, banking, bankruptcy, commercial law, contracts, criminal law and…
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Tax is Bastion of “Hard” America in “Soft” America Law School World
Robert M. Lloyd (Tennessee) has published Hard Law Firms and Soft Law Schools, 83 N.C. L. Rev. 667 (2005), reviewing Michael Barone’s book, Hard America, Soft America: Competition vs. Coddling and the Battle for the Nation’s Future (2004). Publisher’s Weekly notes that the book "describes America as comprising two diametrically opposed characteristics: hard and soft.…
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Maine Appointed Associate Dean at Maine
Jeffrey A. Maine has been appointed Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the University of Maine School of Law. Jeff is the author of two tax books: Intellectual Property Taxation: Problems and Materials (Carolina Academic Press 2004) Intellectual Property Taxation: Transaction and Litigation Issues (BNA 2003)
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Why Don’t They Write Songs About Tax Profs?
Check out the song "I’m Larry Tribe" sung to the tune of "I Will Survive" at the Harvard Law School Parody Show (from our sister Leiter’s Law School Reports). Please email me possible Tax Prof song parody titles for a follow-up post.
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Garrett Named Vice Provost at USC
Elizabeth Garrett has been named Vice Provost for Academic Affairs at USC. She is a member of President Bush’s Advisory Panel on Tax Reform and was recently named Sydney M. Irmas Professor of Public Interest Law, Legal Ethics and Political Science at USC. From the USC press release: A nationally recognized scholar and an expert…
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Tax Profs on the Radio
Check out the archives of Professor Michael Myers’s Elder Law Forum radio show at the Unviersity of South Dakota and listen to tax profs like Roger Baron, Pat Dilley, Randy Gingiss, and Frank Slagle. (You can listen via Windows Media, RealPlayer, QuickTime, or Radio Quality MP3.) Email Mike here if you would like to appear…
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Weisbach Awarded 2004 Richard Musgrave Prize
David A. Weisbach (Chicago) has been awarded the 2004 Richard Musgrave Prize for his article, Taxation and Risk-Taking with Multiple Tax Rates, 57 National Tax Journal 229 (June 2004): The Richard Musgrave Prize is presented each year to the author or authors of the most outstanding paper published in the National Tax Journal. The work…
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Florida Launches International Tax LL.M. Program
The University of Florida College of Law has launched an International Tax LL.M. Program. Although created primarily to serve foreign students, the program hopes to attract U.S. students as well. For further information, see: Press Release Program Brochure
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Peroni Named James A. Elkins Chair in Law at Texas
Robert J. Peroni (Texas) has been named James A. Elkins Chair in Law. From the Texas press release: Professor Peroni joined the Texas faculty in 2003 and his primary areas of teaching and scholarship are federal income taxation, international taxation, natural resource taxation, and professional responsibility. He is one of the nation’s top scholars in…
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Aprill Named Associate Dean for Academic Programs at Loyola-L.A.
Ellen Aprill, the John E. Anderson Professor of Tax Law at Loyola Law School, has also been named its Associate Dean for Academic Programs. Her responsibilities will include overseeing the law school’s graduate programs, symposia, international programs, and centers. Dean Aprill explains, "I view my role as coordinating those law school endeavors that reach out…
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Quality of Faculty Life Survey
Check out the exhaustive (and exhausting) web survey that seeks to determine the Quality of Life in Legal Academia: This web-based survey examines the workplace experiences of law school faculty across the country. It asks questions about your workplace experiences, attitudes, and well-being. You have been contacted to complete this survey because of your experience…
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Tax Law Down Under
The Ross Parsons Centre of Commercial, Corporate and Taxation Law at Sydney Law School is in its second year of operation. Richard Vann is Chair and Director of the Tax Law component of the Centre. Sydney offers "Australia’s First Tax Program at Australia’s First University." Daniel N. Shaviro (NYU) has taught as a visiting professor…
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Lehman Resigns as Cornell’s President
Former Tax Prof Jeffrey S. Lehman has resigned as the President of Cornell University after only two years in the post. According to Sunday’s New York Times, he resigned because of diffference with Cornell’s Board of Trustees: Mr. Lehman, 48, a Cornell graduate who was dean of the law school at the University of Michigan…