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Welcome Back to the Tax Blogosphere: Vic Fleischer
A hearty welcome back to Vic Fleischer (UCLA), who rejoined the tax blogosphere last week with A Taxing Blog. As recounted in Tax Bloggers Use Internet To Widen Tax Policy Appeal, 105 Tax Notes 1498 (Dec. 13, 2004), Vic and Jeffrey Kahn (Santa Clara) launched the tax blog movement with their article, A Taxing Blog:…
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Maule on Tax Accountants v. Tax Lawyers
Jim Maule (Villanova) has a typically thoughtful blog post on the difference between tax accountants and tax lawyers.
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NYU Graduate Tax Program Celebrates 60th Anniversary with Day-Long Events
The NYU Graduate Tax Program continues the celebration of its 60th Anniversary with a day-long series of events: 7:45 – 8:45 am: Continental Breakfast 8:45 – 10:30 am: Concurrent Academic Panels (non-tax) 11:00 -12:45 am: How Did Taxes Become a Dirty Word? Moderator: Deborah H. Schenk (NYU) Panelists: Gregory Jenner (Acting Assistant…
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NYU Graduate Tax Program Celebrates 60th Anniversary with Tax Workshop
The NYU Graduate Tax Program continues the celebration of its 60th Anniversary with a Graduate Tax Workshop from 9:10 am – 7:15 pm today at NYU’s Vanderbilt Hall, Greenberg Lounge: 9:10 am: Introductory Remarks (Noël B. Cunningham (NYU & Director, Graduate Tax Program) 9:15 -10:30 am: Tax Reform Lily L. Batchelder (NYU)) Daniel N.…
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NYU Graduate Tax Program Celebrates 60th Anniversary with Women in Tax Panel & Reception
The NYU Graduate Tax Program celebrates its 60th Anniversary with a Women in Tax Panel & Reception tonight from 6:00 – 8:00 pm EST at NYU’s Furman Hall (245 Sullivan Street), Lester Pollack Colloquium Room, Room 910: Moderator: Laurie L. Malman (NYU) Panelists: Mary Lu Harmon (Managing Director & Tax Counsel, Goldman, Sachs & Company)…
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Death of Maureen Cavanaugh
It is with great sadness that I bring you the news of the death of our friend and colleague Maureen Cavanaugh at the too-young age of 50. Her Penn State colleague Bill Barker told me the news this morning and asked me to share it with Maureen’s many friends and admirers in the tax community.…
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60th Anniversary of NYU’s Graduate Tax Program
The NYU Graduate Tax Program kicks-off a week-long series of events to celebrate its 60th Anniversary: Women in Tax Panel & Reception (4/5) Swiss American Tax Conference (4/6) Graduate Tax Workshop (4/8) 60th Anniversary Dinner (4/9)
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Updated SSRN Rankings of Tax Faculty
SSRN has updated its new monthly rankings of 200 American and international law school faculties and 1,000 American law professors by (among other things) the number of downloads of their papers from the SSRN data base. Here is the new list of the Top 25 Tax Faculty in two of the SSRN categories: all-time downloads…
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Which Is Taller: A Tax Prof or the Tax Code?
To illustrate his point about the size and complexity of the tax law, Ned S. Schwartz (Western New England College School of Business) posed next to the federal tax code at his presentation at the March 23 Federal Tax Conference at Western New England (blogged here).
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Loyola-Chicago Seeks Tax Visitor for Spring 2006
Loyola University Chicago School of Law is seeking a visiting tax professor for the Spring 2006 semester. The visitor’s responsibilities would include teaching a combined course in Corporate & Partnership Tax. Interested candidates should e-mail a letter and resume to Professor Spencer Webber Waller, Chair of Visiting and Lateral Appointments Committee, here.
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US News Tax Rankings
Here are the US News tax rankings to be publicly released on Friday: 1. NYU 2. Florida 3. Georgetown 4. Northwestern 5. Harvard 5. Miami 7. Boston University 7. UCLA 9. Texas 9. Yale 11. Stanford 12. San Diego 13. Michigan 14. Virginia 15. Hastings 16. Duke 16. Loyola-L.A. 18. Villanova 19. Boston College 19. …
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Tax Prof Moves, 2005-06
Entry Level Hires Allison Christians (Wisconsin) Michael Hatfield (Texas Tech) Andrea Monroe (Temple) Shari Motro (Richmond) Miranda Perry (Colorado) Kerry Ryan (St. Louis) Promotions and Tenures Terrence Chorvat (George Mason) from Associate Professor to Associate Professor (with tenure) John Eason (Tulane) from Associate Professor to Professor (with tenure) Jeffrey Kahn (Santa Clara) from Assistant Professor…
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Buchanan and Fried Join Blogosphere
A hearty welcome to Tax Profs Neil H. Buchanan (Rutgers-Newark) and Barbara H. Fried (Stanford), who have joined the Left2Right blog: We’re a bunch of academics, mostly philosophers but also some lawyers, political scientists, and economists. We’re interested in liberal ideas, though we are probably far from unanimous about what "liberal" means, and our being…
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SSRN Rankings of Tax Faculty
It is the season of law school rankings. U.S. News & World Report will publish its annual rankings on Friday (we offered an early peek yesterday here). Our symposium on The Next Generation of Law School Rankings will be held at Indiana-Bloomington on April 15. And last week, SSRN unveiled a new feature that ranks…
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Kornhauser on Occupational Segregation by Gender Among Law Professors
Marjorie E. Kornhauser (Tulane) has published Rooms of Their Own: An Empirical Study of Occupational Segregation by Gender Among Law Professors, 73 U.M.K.C. L. Rev. 293 (2005). Here are her six general conclusions: The proportion of women to men law professors teaching the majority of courses listed by the AALS does not reflect the gender…
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Peroni Named Fellow of American College of Tax Counsel
Robert J. Peroni (Texas) has been elected a fellow of the American College of Tax Counsel. From yesterday’s Texas press release: Fewer than 4% of attorneys in the tax or tax-related field are so honored by their peers. The American College of Tax Law is a professional association of tax lawyers in private practice, in…
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Are Law Student Law Clerks Employees or Independent Contractors?
John S. Dzienkowski (Texas), co-blogger at the Legal Ethics Forum, argued recently (here) that law students who clerk for law firms should be treated as employees for tax purposes. However, he also noted the reality that law firms often try to treat the students as independent contractors to avoid their withholding and payroll tax obligations. …
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Attention Aspiring Law Profs: Today is Deadline to Apply for $50,000 Olin Fellowship for 2005-06
Today is the deadline to apply for a John M. Olin Fellowship for 2005-06, designed to give three folks the opportunity to spend a year writing and developing their scholarship with the goal of entering the legal academy. Those awarded fellowships will receive stipends of $50,000 (plus benefits) and an office at a host law…
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Tax Prof Pod
In what may be a first: Jack Bogdanski (Lewis & Clark) is offering podcasting on his web site here.
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Kennedy & Weisbach Among Witnesses to Testify Before President’s Tax Reform Panel
The President’s Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform has released its list of witnesses for Wednesday’s fourth meeting at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business: Panel I: Taxes and Individual Decisions James J. Heckman (Nobel Laureate in Economics) Henry Schultz (Distinguished Service Professor of Economics, University of Chicago) Panel II: Taxes and Investment…
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Boston College Seeks Trusts & Estates Visitor for 2005-06
Boston College Law School is seeking a visitor to teach Trusts & Estates for the 2005-06 academic year. For further information, contact Associate Dean George Brown here.
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Welcome to the Blogosphere: Allison Christians
Allison Christians, a Visiting Assistant Professor at Northwestern who will be joining Wisconsin’s tenure track tax faculty in the fall, is guest blogging at Conglomerate about her research trip to Tanzania: Welcome Research Project in Tanzania (I) Research Project in Tanzania (II)
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Dean Spam
Interesting story from lawschool.com about the perils of group emails: Columbia Dean (and former Tax Prof) David M. Schizer’s email to 10,866 alumni ended up spamming the recipients as Columbia’s server inadvertently sent repeated automated out-of-office replies to all 10,866 recipients. As soon as he learned about the snafu, Dean Schizer had the university’s computer…
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Phelan Named Horn Professor at Texas Tech
Marilyn Phelan was named Horn Professor of Law in recognition of her scholarly achievement and outstanding service to Texas Tech.
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Shaviro Eulogizes David Bradford in WSJ
Daniel Shaviro (NYU) has a wonderful eulogy of David Bradford (Princeton) in today’s Wall Street Journal. As noted here and here, David succumbed last week to injuries suffered in a tragic fire at his home. The essence of the piece is reflected in the first and last paragraphs: The world lost a great economist last…