
Paul L. Caron
Dean
Pepperdine Caruso
School of Law

Tax Analysts: Professor Ed Zelinsky “is continuing his challenge against New York’s taxation of income he earned while working remotely from Connecticut during the COVID-19 pandemic.”
Daniel Shaviro (NYU; Google Scholar), Now Is Now, and Then Is Then: A Memoir: “Who am I really? And what should I name my pet iguana?” Few people – and certainly not Daniel Shaviro when he was young – can answer such questions very well. But, as Shaviro shows in this lively, witty, and candid…
The University of Texas School of Law hosts the Tenth Annual Texas Tax Faculty Workshop today: Bret Wells (Houston; Google Scholar), The Past and Future of Taxing “Incomes”, 104 N.C. L. Rev. ___ (2025) (with Clint Wallace (South Carolina; Google Scholar)) Commenter: Robert Peroni (Texas) Phyllis Taite (Oklahoma), Subsidies as Silent Spending: Tax Policy in DisguiseCommenter: Will…
Ellen Aprill (Loyola-L.A.; Google Scholar) and Beverly Moran (Vanderbilt) received the AALS Tax Section Lifetime Achievement Award at the year's AALS Annual Meeting in San Francisco: Ellen Aprill Ellen Aprill is a teacher, a scholar, a mentor, and a mensch. As noted in our call for nominations, the purpose of the Section of Taxation’s Lifetime…
Tax Notes Federal Persons of the Year: Dorothy Brown, Champion for Change: Dorothy Brown reflects on her time spent serving as a member of the Treasury Advisory Committee on Racial Equity and the committee’s ultimate success in advocating for Treasury to release regulations on sharing more data with the Census Bureau to help conduct critical…
Call for Nominations, AALS Section on Taxation 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award: The AALS Section on Taxation Executive Committee is pleased to open nominations for its 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award. This award, first given in 2024 to Professors Patricia Cain and Cliff Fleming, honors an individual who has had a distinguished career of teaching, service, and…
Jeremiah Coder, People in Tax: Interview with Anthony Infanti, 43 ABA Tax Times 6 (Winter-Spring 2024): Editor’s Note: Anthony “Tony” Infanti is a professor of law at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. Professor Infanti teaches a variety of tax courses at Pitt Law, including Federal Income Tax, Corporate Tax, and International Tax. He is…
Roger Colinvaux (Catholic University) received the 2024 Outstanding Nonprofit Academic Award from the ABA Business Law Section: The legal nonprofit community has named the 2024 recipients of the annual “Outstanding Nonprofit Lawyer Awards.” The Nonprofit Organizations Committee of the American Bar Association, Business Law Section, recognizes accomplished and civic-minded nonprofit lawyers in the categories of…
Erin Scharff (Associate Dean of Research and Faculty Development, Arizona State) has been named Willard H. Pedrick Distinguished Research Scholar: Erin Adele Scharff joined the ASU College of Law faculty in 2014. Previously, she was a visiting assistant professor of tax law at New York University School of Law, where she served as an editor…
Northwestern University, Sarah B. Lawsky Receives 2024 Walder Award: Sarah B. Lawsky, Stanford Clinton Sr. and Zylpha Kilbride and Clinton Research Professor of Law at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, has received the 2024 Martin E. and Gertrude G. Walder Award for Research Excellence. The award recognizes Lawsky’s international impact at the intersection of law,…
Jacob Goldin Awarded 2024 Donald M. Ephraim Prize in Law and Economics: The second annual Donald M. Ephraim Prize in Law and Economics has been awarded to Jacob Goldin, Richard M. Lipton Professor of Tax Law at the University of Chicago Law School. The prize, established last year by the University of Chicago through the…
ABA, Dean Emeritus Leo P. Martinez is the 2024 Robert J. Kutak Award Recipient: Leo Martinez is Dean Emeritus and Albert Abramson Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of California College of the Law San Francisco. He is currently a Managing Director at Anderson, the tax and financial services firm. Professor Martinez is a…
SMU hosted the 9th Annual Texas Tax Faculty Workshop on Monday: Christopher Hanna (SMU), Taxing Carried Interest: A Reappraisal (with David Elkins (Netanya; Google Scholar)Commenter: Susan Morse (Texas; Google Scholar) Gary Lucas (Texas A&M; Google Scholar), Shaping Preferences with Pigouvian TaxesCommenter: Johnny Buckles (Houston; Google Scholar) Orly Mazur (SMU; Google Scholar), Beyond ChatGPT: Responsible AI and Government Innovation, 92 Tenn. L.…
Kathleen Thomas and Leigh Osofsky received awards for excellence in teaching and scholarship from the University of North Carolina School of Law:
Patricia A. Cain (Santa Clara) and J. Clifton Fleming, Jr. (BYU; Google Scholar) receive the inaugural AALS Tax Section Lifetime Achievement Awards yesterday at the AALS Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.: Santa Clara University School of Law: Professor Patricia "Pat" Cain has been selected to receive the Association of American Law Schools Tax Section Inaugural…
Omaha World Herald, Creighton Law Professor to Appear on New Fox Game Show: Earlier this year, Victoria Haneman got on a plane and flew to Ireland to participate in a game show. The Creighton University law professor knew it was a game show. Beyond that, the details were a mystery. At 9 p.m. the night…
Daniel Shaviro (NYU; Google Scholar), Talk at National Tax Association Holland Medal Ceremony: On November 3, 2023, I received the Daniel M. Holland Medal at the 116th Annual Meeting of the National Tax Association. According to the NTA website: “The Holland Medal is the most prestigious award given by the NTA, as it recognizes lifetime achievement…
NYU Law News, Daniel Shaviro to Receive the 2023 NTA Holland Medal: Daniel Shaviro, Wayne Perry Professor of Taxation, has been named the 2023 recipient of the Daniel M. Holland Medal, recognizing lifetime achievement in and outstanding contributions to public finance. The Holland Medal is bestowed annually by the National Tax Association (NTA) and is…
University of Kentucky News, Great Teachers 2023: Jennifer Bird-Pollan Guides Students Through Complicated Tax Law: In February, the University of Kentucky Alumni Association honored the six recipients of this year’s Great Teacher Awards. Launched in 1961, they are the longest-running UK awards that recognize teaching. Over the next six weeks, UKNow is highlighting the passionate and accomplished educators who were named a…
Houston hosted the 8th Annual Texas Tax Faculty Workshop (program): Johnny Buckles (Houston), Constitutional Law and Tax Expenditures: A Prelude, 76 Ark. L. Rev. 1 (2023)Commenter: Susan Morse (Texas; Google Scholar) Orly Mazur (SMU; Google Scholar), Cooperative Federalism and the Digital Tax Impasse, 51 Fla. St. U. L. Rev. __ (2023) (with Adam B. Thimmesch…
Andy Grewal (Iowa) and Daniel Hemel (NYU) are two of the more active Tax Profs on twitter. Both have lost access to their accounts for different reasons. Twitter suspended Andy's account (@AndyGrewal) as a result of a twitter conversation with a friend (Andrew Dhuey) over the proper response to the alleged controversy around Justice Thomas.…
The Oklahoma Law Review is accepting tax-themed submissions for publication in our upcoming Spring 2022 issue. This issue will honor the late Professor Jonathan Forman, a beloved faculty member who taught tax courses at the University of Oklahoma College of Law from 1985 to 2021. Please submit manuscripts for consideration to Tina Cannon before January…
Tax Prof Susannah Camic (Wisconsin) married Alex Tahk on September 22. The happy couple reports: Alex and I met at UW-Madison's welcome reception for new faculty two years ago. Our academic interests are the converse of each others'. Alex is in the political science department, but spent a year in law school and works on…
Nancy Staudt, Edward G. Lewis Professor in Law and Public Policy at USC, has been named Academic Director of the new Schwarzenegger Institute for State and Global Policy: The USC Schwarzenegger Institute will focus on the responsibility of policymakers to transcend partisanship to implement policies that most benefit the people they serve, with five priority areas:…
The Board of Trustees of the Southern Federal Tax Institute invites all full-time tax professors to attend the Forty-Seventh Annual Institute in Atlanta on October 15-19, 2012, as guests of the Trustees (the $995 registration fee will be waived). If you would like to attend, please email here. If you have any other questions, please contact Brant…