Paul L. Caron
Dean
Pepperdine Caruso
School of Law
Tax Profs
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Brown Profiled in 2005 BNA Tax Calendar
Check out the BNA Tax Management 2005 Tax Calendar, which profiles various BNA authors each month accompanied by an 9 x 12 glossy photo. Tax Prof Karen Brown (George Washington) is profiled in May 2005. Other Tax Profs profiled in prior year’s calendars include: Elliott Manning (Miami) (October 2004) Jim Maule (Villanova) (August 2000)
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Maule on Deductibility of Hawaiian Vacation
After suffering through one of the worst snowstorms in my 15 years in Cincinnati, this post on Jim Maule’s blog caught my eye: Trying to Deduct the Hawaii Vacation. Update: Others in the law school biz apparently feel the same way about snow: Ave Maria Law School [Michigan] Considers Move to Florida.
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Last-Minute Gifts for that Special Tax Person (Part 2)
Following up on yesterday’s post with suggestions for last-minute gifts for that special tax person in your life: here are more tax-related gifts available on ebay: Tax Deductible Toilet Paper: A Roll of Tax Deductible Toilet Paper. A Must for the Anti-IRS Person. 10-4 Good Buddy Tax Return 1984. The Box measures…
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Last-Minute Gifts for that Special Tax Person
Here are some suggestions for last-minute gifts for that special tax person in your life (from contributions on the TaxProf Discussion Group, reprinted with permission): The Internal Revenue Code on an Etch-a-Sketch (with the frequent changes to the Code, often time-limited, one needs no tax research tool more permanent than an Etch-a-Sketch) –…
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ABA Tax Section Needs Editors for Annual Report on Important Developments
Tax Profs are invited to contact Bill Lyons (Nebraska) to volunteer to edit a portion of the Annual Report on Important Developments to be published in the Summer 2005 issue of The Tax Lawyer: List of ABA Tax Section Committees submitting annual reports Copies of the 2004 Annual Report Guidelines for Annual Reports on Important…
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Harvard Law Review Survey
The venerable Harvard Law Review is asking law professors to fill out an on-line Law Review Usage Survey. Eight of the questions concern law reviews generally, while six of the questions specifically concern the Harvard Law Review. Question 14 asks: "As an author who has submitted to the Harvard Law Review, how satisfied are you…
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Former Students Honor Art Andrews with $500k Endowed Professorship Upon His Retirement
Current and former students of Arthur Andrews, a tax professor at Arizona who retired this fall after 36 years on the faculty, have raised $500,000 to fund an endowed professorship in his honor: "As important as he has been to the institution, Art Andrews has been even more critical to the legions of students whose…
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Jack Bogdanski’s Buck-a-Hit-Day
Check out Jack Bogdanski’s (Lewis & Clark) blog (Jack Bog’s Blog) today — he is donating $1 to charity for each visitor to the site. Last year’s Buck-a-Hit Day raised over $1,000 for charity.
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Loyola-L.A. Graduate Tax Program Seeks Distinguished Lecturer in Tax
The Loyola Law School-Los Angeles Graduate Tax Program invites applications for the position of Distinguished Lecturer in Tax beginning on July 1, 2005 or January 1, 2006. The initial appointment will be until June 30, 2007 and may be renewed for successive three-year periods. The position is a non-tenure track position. The Law School seeks…
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Lederman & Shores Quoted in NLJ Story on Ballard & Kanter
Tax Profs Leandra Lederman (George Mason) and David Shores (Wake Forest) are quoted in a National Law Journal front page story (Fraud Case To Shed Light on Tax Court) on the companion Ballard (No. 03-184) and Kanter (03-1034) cases pending in the Supreme Court. For prior TaxProf Blog coverage of these cases, see: 12/9/04 12/8/04…
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Law Profs Criticize Legal Affairs Poll to Determine “Top 20 Legal Thinkers”
Several law profs and others have criticized the Legal Affairs poll to determine the Top 20 Legal Thinkers (blogged here): Brian Leiter: "The list of candidates is–to put the matter gently–absurd, not because there aren’t substantial ‘legal thinkers’ on the list (there are some), but because there are far too many on the list who…
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Tax Profs Dissed in Legal Affairs Poll To Determine “Top 20 Legal Thinkers”
Legal Affairs is running a poll to determine the Top 20 Legal Thinkers in America. 55 law professors are nominated in the academics category and — you guessed it — not a single nominee is a Tax Prof! The poll requests folks to vote for their top 5 picks, as well as someone who is…
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Tax Profs Contribute to Reduction in Junior Faculty Ranks at Harvard
The Harvard Crimson reports that Harvard Law School is looking for "new blood," caused in part by the failure to land and keep Tax Profs: Lily Batchelder (profiled here on TaxProf Blog) chose to join NYU rather than Harvard Diane Ring (noted here on TaxProf Blog) left Harvard to accept a tenured position at Florida…
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Gallanis Elected to ALI
Thomas Gallanis (Washington & Lee) has been elected to membership in the American Law Institute.
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Welcome to the Blogosphere: The Anonymous Law Professor
A hearty welcome to the newest member of the Law Prof blogosphere: An Anonymous Law Professor is a blog by "a fictional tenured law professor at a first tier law school." Judging by the first few posts ("Like most professors here, I keep a bottle of my favorite drink in the drawer. My current favorite…
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Tax Prof John Edwards?
The media is reporting that the University of North Carolina School of Law is courting John and Elizabeth Edwards: The UNC law school is courting U.S. Sen. John Edwards, hoping that Edwards will consider teaching now that his campaigning days and his Senate career are ending. Dean Gene Nichol sent a long letter two weeks…
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NY Times Disses Accountants
In one of my first articles, Tax Myopia. or Mamas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Tax Lawyers, 13 Va. Tax Rev. 517 (1994), I made a serious point — that tax law and tax lawyers too often are viewed as different from other areas of law and other lawyers — but included…
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A TaxProf Thanksgiving: Jack Bogdanski’s Thanksgiving Video What Jim Maule is Thankful For For the record, the Carons spent an Ohio Thanksgiving here Other law professor bloggers offer these Thanksgiving thoughts: Tenessee’s Glenn Reynolds (of InstaPundit) serves up a particularly delicious turkey Iowa’s Tung Yin (of The Yin Blog) ponders the wisdom of cancelling law…
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Welcome to the Tax Blogosphere: Clarissa Potter
A hearty welcome to the newest member of the Tax Prof blogosphere: Clarissa Potter (Georgetown) yesterday launched Academically Taxing with this announcement: Although I’ve created this blog primarily for the students in my income tax courses (you go Hoya Tax Geeks!), taxation is such a titillating subject and all that no doubt there will…
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Welcome to the Tax Blogosphere: Dan Shaviro
A hearty welcome to the newest member of the Tax Prof blogosphere: Dan Shaviro (NYU) has started a blog called Start Making Sense. He promises Unfair but balanced commentary on tax and budget policy, contemporary U.S. politics and culture, and whatever else happens to come up. He notes that "[t]hese days I call myself a…
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Professor Maule as Professor Snape?
I previously have compared tax teacher (and blogger) extraordinaire Jim Maule (Villanova) to the Incredible Hulk (see here). Prof. Maule and his tax class were featured in Sunday’s Philadelphia Inquirer (Wanted: Sorcerer for U.S. Tax Laws), which suggested another comparison: Professor Snape from Harry Potter fame: I thought perhaps I’d find professor James Maule’s…
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Graetz NY Times Op-Ed: Keep AMT, Repeal Income Tax
Michael Graetz (Yale) has as op-ed in today’s New York Times, To the Point of No Returns: America should return the income tax to its pre-World War II status — a relatively low-rate simple tax on a thin slice of the wealthiest Americans. Rather than repealing the alternative minimum tax, as many have urged, Congress…
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Brody Featured in NY Times Roundtable on Regulating Charities
Evelyn Brody (Chicago-Kent) was featured yesterday in the Sunday New York Times Roundtable Discussion on Regulating Charities.
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Bank and Mehrotra Talk Tax History on Chicago Public Radio
Steven Bank (UCLA) and Ajay Mehrotra (Indiana-Bloomington) appeared yesterday on the Chicago Public Radio Show Odyssey to discuss an historical perspective on the politics of tax reform: President Bush says overhauling the tax code is a top priority for his second administration. Major changes to the U.S. tax system have been rare, but when they…
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University of Washington Looking to Hire Tax Prof
The University of Washington School of Law invites applications for a tenure-track faculty appointment as an Assistant or Associate Professor beginning in the 2005-2006 academic year. The School of Law has a Graduate Program in Taxation and seeks applicants with an interest in teaching primarily in the LL.M. (in Taxation) program. Applicants should possess superior…