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Tax Profs
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Cain Named Distinguished Professor of Law at Santa Clara
Patricia A. Cain has been named the Inez Mabie Distinguished Professor of Law at Santa Clara. She previously served as Vice Provost and Aliber Family Chair in Law at Iowa, and as a member of the faculty at the University of Texas for 17 years. For more details, see the press release.
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Koffler Wins IFA’s Carroll Prize
Georg Kofler (NYU) has received the 2007 Mitchell B. Carroll Prize awarded by the International Fiscal Association: In order to encourage scientific work, the IFA has instituted a Prize as a tribute to its first Honorary President, Mitchell B. Carroll. This Prize is awarded for a work dealing with international fiscal questions, comparative fiscal law…
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Tax Profs Named to ABA Tax Section Leadership Positions
Following up on last week’s post on the selection of Stanley L. Blend (Oppenheimer, Blend, Harrison & Tate, San Antonio, TX) as the new chair of the ABA Tax Section: several Tax Profs were named to leadership positions in the Section: Vice Chair (Communications): Ellen P. Aprill (Loyola-L.A.) Secretary: Alice Abreu (Temple) Council Director: Christine…
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Ten Most-Cited Tax Faculty
From Brian Leiter (Texas): Michael Graetz (Yale): 470 citations, age 63 Daniel Shaviro (NYU): 400 citations, age 50 Edward McCaffery (USC): 340 citations, age 49 Joseph Bankman (Stanford): 320 citations, age 52 Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan): 290 citations, age 50 David Weisbach (Chicago): 280 citations, age 44 Edward Zelinsky (Cardozo): 270 citations, age 57 James Strnad…
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Law Prof Blogosphere Census
Dan Solove (George Washington) has updated his census of law professor bloggers (here and here). He notes that there are now 365 law professor bloggers (up from 309 in October 2006). The gender breakdown of the 365 law professor bloggers is 74% male and 26% female. 77 (21%) of the bloggers are part of our…
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Tax Prof at 50
I was hoping to fly under the radar with this, but I have been outed by some of my blogosphere friends (Adjunct Law Prof Blog, Administrative Law Prof Blog, Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog, Brian Leiter’s Law School Reports, Food Law Prof Blog, Health Law Prof Blog, ImmigrationProf Blog, Jack Bog’s Blog, Legal Profession Blog,…
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Do Tax Profs Make the Big Money?
Brian Leiter: "[T[he market responds not only to merit–e.g., scholarly productivity, quality of the work–but also to area. There will be more market demand for the very top folks in tax or corporate law, for example, meaning that salaries are likely to be higher. I confess that all I have to go on here is…
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Fleischer Named WSJ Law Blog’s “Law Professor of the Day”
Victor Fleischer (Illinois) is featured in an extensive profile today in the WSJ, as well as on the WSJ Law Blog as its Law Professor of the Day, for his work on the taxation of private equity firms.
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Charleston Welcomes Kristin Gutting to its Faculty
Charleston issued a press release today welcoming former Florida VAP Kristin B. Gutting to its tenure-track faculty.
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Polsky Named 2007-08 Professor in Residence
The IRS announced today (IR-2007-111) that Chief Counsel Donald L. Korb has named Gregg D. Polsky the 2007-08 Professor in Residence, succeeding Calvin Johnson (whose term ended May 31): Polsky is a nationally known scholar who recently joined the faculty at Florida State as the Sheila M. McDevitt Professor of Law after serving for six…
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Tax Prof Public Speaking
Vic Fleischer has a wonderfully vulnerable post about his struggles to overcome glassopobia — stage fright — in his life as a Tax Prof: Stagefright is an awkward phobia for a law professor. After all, we have to stand up in front of a large class four times a week and command the stage. We…
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Sugin Named Fordham’s Teacher of the Year
Tax Prof Linda Sugin was named Fordham’s Teacher of the Year. From the press release: The SBA selected Sugin for her "dedication to her students. She expects a lot from her students and does so because she truly wants each to have benefited from enrolling in her class."
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McGeorge Confers Order of the Pacific on Retiring Tax Prof Wile
Tax Prof Philip H. Wile received the Order of the Pacific upon his retirement from the University of Pacific, McGeorge School of Law. From the press release: It is the highest award that can be conferred upon a retiring faculty member and recognizes someone who has made an outstanding contribution in teaching, scholarship and service…
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Tax Prof Music Video: Cockfield Performs What You Know About Tax?
Check out the music video from Tax Prof Arthur Cockfield (Queen’s University), What You Know About Tax?: My favorite lines: I know you like me ‘cause Ratemyprof says you does I just can’t be ignored With jacket made of cord My class’ll leave you floored My lectures so adored Don’t tell me that you’re bored…
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Crawford Wins Pace’s Outstanding Teacher Award for Third Consecutive Year
Tax Prof Bridget J. Crawford received Pace Law School’s award for outstanding teaching for the third year in a row at Sunday’s graduation ceremony. Here are the Bridget’s remarks: I look at this award and I can think of only one word – “income.” It was Chief Justice Warren writing for the court in Glenshaw…
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Kwall Receives Inaugural Professor of the Year Award at Loyola-Chicago
Jeffrey L. Kwall has been named the recipient of Loyola-Chicago Law School’s first annual Professor of the Year award, determined by a panel of student judges.
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Fleischer Debates Taxing Private Equity on CNBC’s Power & Money
Check out this video of Vic Fleischer (Illinois) debating the desirability of changing the tax treatment of carried interest earned by hedge fund managers with Robert Profusek (Jones Day, New York) on a Power & Money segment on CNBC’s Closing Bell, hosted by Maria Bartiromo.
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Happy 50th Birthday, Dan Shaviro
Happy 50th birthday to Dan Shaviro (NYU). Those of us approaching the big 5-0 can relate to Dan’s thoughts on hitting this milestone: It’s strange to have been young all one’s life, strongly conditioning one’s self-image, and then increasingly to find that one is no longer so. That being said, I weigh the same and…
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Fried Wins Pro Bono Service Award
Tax Prof Martin L. Fried (Syracuse) has been selected to receive the New York State Bar Association’s 2007 President’s Pro Bono Service Award (Individual Attorney Award, Fifth Judicial District). From the Call for Nominations: By bestowing these prestigious awards, the Association seeks to recognize outstanding pro bono service and to convey a message to the…
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Tax Teachers of the Year
The AALS has announced that the following Tax Profs have been selected as the Teacher of the Year at their respective law schools: Bradley W. Joondeph (Santa Clara) Nancy Assaf McLaughlin (Utah) William J. Rands (Cincinnati)
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Tax Prof Hair
Here is one issue I have not thought about in preparing to teach my class: how to wear my hair: In my first three years, I never ever ever wore my hair down when I taught. Instead, I generally wore it pulled back in a low, neat ponytail. I associated wearing my hair pulled back…
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Washington & Lee Seeks 2007-08 Tax Visitor
Washington & Lee Law School is looking for a visitor to teach Federal Income Tax next year. For more information, email Dorothy A. Brown, Professor of Law and Director, Frances Lewis Law Center at Washington & Lee.
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Garrett Named Distinguished Alumnus of Oklahoma
Elizabeth Garrett (USC) has been named a 2007 College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Alumnus by the University of Oklahoma. From the USC press release: Garrett is the university vice president for academic planning and budget and holds the Sydney M. Irmas Chair in public interest law, legal ethics, political science and policy, planning and…
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Yin Appointed to IRS Advisory Council
The IRS yesterday announced (IR-2007-33) that it has selected sixteen new members to the IRS Advisory Council, joining the eleven returning members who are in their last year of a three-year term. Among the new members is George K. Yin, Edwin S. Cohen Distinguished Professor of Law & Taxation at the University of Virginia School…
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Stark on Taxes v. Fees
Listen to Kirk J. Stark (UCLA) discuss the difference between a tax and a fee. From the UCLA Press release: Professor Kirk Stark, an expert in tax law, discusses the difference between a fee and a tax in reference to a newly proposed health plan by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. The California Supreme Court has…