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Fleischer Quoted in New Yorker Enron Article
Interesting article in the current New Yorker: Open Secrets, Enron, Intelligence, and the Perils of Too Much Information, by Malcolm Gladwell: Victor Fleischer, who teaches at the University of Colorado Law School, points out that one of the critical clues about Enron’s condition lay in the fact that it paid no income tax in four…
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IRS Names Calvin Johnson 2007 Professor-in-Residence
The IRS announced today (IR-2007-06) that Chief Counsel Donald L. Korb has revived the Professor-in-Residence Program and named Calvin H. Johnson (Texas) the 2007 Professor in Residence for the IRS Office of Chief Counsel: Dormant since the late 1980s, the Professor-in-Residence program provides some of the nation’s top legal academicians the opportunity to contribute to…
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Building and Marketing Your Scholarly “Brand”
I have been asked to post the PowerPoint slides of my talk on Building and Marketing Your Scholarly "Brand" at Friday’s panel on Scholarship and the New Law Professor: Of Blogs, Books, Networks and the Placement Game at the AALS Annual Meeting: Building Your Scholarly Brand: Read the “Canon” in Your Field Choose Ambitious Topics…
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Tax Profs Speaking at Today’s AALS Annual Meeting
Several Tax Profs are speaking today at the AALS Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.: 8:30 a.m. – 10:15 a.m: Dorothy Brown (Washington & Lee) & Paul Caron (Cincinnati) on a panel on Scholarship and the New Law Professor: Of Blogs, Books, Networks and the Placement Game sponsored by the Section on New Law Professors 8:30…
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Tax Profs Speaking at Today’s AALS Annual Meeting
Two Tax Profs are speaking today at the AALS Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.: 8:30 – 10:15 a.m.: Adam Chodorow (Arizona State) at a panel on Emerging Applications of Jewish Law in American Legal Scholarship sponsored by the Section on Jewish Law 8:30 – 10:15 a.m.: Vic Fleischer (Colorado) at a panel on What Can…
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Continuing a TaxProf Blog tradition (see The Top 10 Tax Stories of 2005, 110 Tax Notes 169 (Jan. 9, 2006)), here is a list of the The Top 10 Tax Stories of 2006, generated from a post on the TaxProf Discussion Group the last week of December 2006, discussed in detail below the fold (along…
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Tax Profs Speaking at Today’s AALS Annual Meeting
Two Tax Profs are speaking today at the Workshop on the Ratings Game (or Not!): The Search for Sensible Assessment at the AALS Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.: Richard Schmalbeck (Duke) moderates a panel at 9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.on Folklore of Rankings: Games, Morals, and the Efforts of Legal Education: In this session, speakers…
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Bryan Camp on CNBC Tonight
Tax Prof Bryan Camp (Texas Tech) is a guest tonight on CNBC’s On the Money, hosted by Dylan Ratigan. He will be talking about the tax consequences to the participants in the online game Second Life.
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What Tax Profs Are Thankful For
Beau Baez (Liberty): "I grow ever thankful to God for my wife, children, church, and chosen profession." Linda Beale (Wayne State): "Having colleagues who care what I am thinking about, students who want to learn what I have to teach them, and a network of tax professionals through NYSBA, ABA, and AALS who are among…
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Jack Bogdanski, Moot Court, and Ohio State-Michigan
Jeff Lipshaw (Tulane) of our sister Legal Profession Blog relates Lewis & Clark Tax Prof Jack Bogdanski’s performance in his Stanford student moot court final to yesterday’s Ohio State-Michigan slugfest.
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Beale, Cords Elected to Lead Central States Law School Association
Linda Beale (Wayne State, left) has been elected President, and Danshera Cords (Capital, right) has been elected Secretary, of the Central States Law School Association.
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Tax Prof Injured Filing Tax Return
Ann Murphy (Gonzaga) reports on her October 16 tax filing experience: Yet again, I filed an extension on our personal income tax return this year. And of course, the return was due to be mailed by Monday. Although I had already prepared the return, I found a new 2005 charitable contribution that I had previously…
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List of Tax Professors with Papers on SSRN
Ted Seto (Loyola-L.A.) has graciously offered to share his list of tax professors (by school) who have posted one or more tax papers on SSRN. Ted uses these names in compiling his monthly Tax Faculty Rankings and Graduate Tax Faculty Rankings.
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“What’s More Sexy Than Tax Law?”
In the spirit of our prior posts on the selection of Tax Prof Bruce Wolk (Cal-Davis) as America’s Hottest Male ERISA Lawyer, and the nomination of Tax Prof Colleen Medill (Nebraska) as America’s Hottest Female ERISA Lawyer: Tax Prof Leah Jackson (Baylor) is one of seven nominees for America’s Hottest Female Law School Dean: [S]he…
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Tax Prof Nuptials: Miranda Perry & Vic Fleischer
Tax Profs Miranda Perry and Vic Fleischer tied the knot Saturday at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, followed by a reception at the Kitchen [Upstairs], a Boulder wine bar. The happy couple reports: Miranda’s judge, Judge Morris (Buzz) Arnold of the 8th Circuit, officiated. He managed to work in a wonderful legal history describing…
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Temple Tax Prof Ting Wins Delaware U.S. Senate Primary
Temple Tax Prof Jan C. Ting won yesterday’s Republican U.S. Senate primary in Delaware: Christine O’Donnell: 17.4% (2505 votes) Michael D. Protack: 40.1% (5771 votes) Jan Ting: 42.5% (6110 votes) From press reports: Ting, the son of Chinese immigrants, served three years as an assistant commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service after being appointed…
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Brunetti Awarded 2005 Richard Musgrave Prize
Michael J. Brunetti (ERS Group, San Francisco) has been awarded the 2005 Richard Musgrave Prize for his article, The Estate Tax and Charitable Bequests: Elasticity Estimates Using Probate Records, 58 Nat’l Tax J. 165 (2005): The Richard Musgrave Prize is presented each year to the author or authors of the most outstanding paper published in…
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Wolk Named “America’s Hottest Male ERISA Lawyer”
Congratulations to Tax Prof Bruce A. Wolk (UC-Davis), named America’s Hottest Male ERISA Lawyer at Above the Law.: Professor Wolk, assuming an odalisque position on the hood of his Camry, proved irresistibly sinuous to the voters. Bruce was the top vote getter among the 12 nominees, with 33% of the vote (481 votes out of…
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ERISA “Hottie” Update
Tax Prof Bruce A. Wolk (UC-Davis) is leading the early voting (at 31%) among the twelve nominess in the male "ERISA Hotties" contest at Above the Law. To cast your vote in the Who is America’s Hottest Male ERISA Lawyer?, go here. On the women’s side, Tax Prof Colleen E. Medill (Nebraska) is one of…
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Bruce Wolk, ERISA “Hottie”
Bruce A. Wolk (UC-Davis) is one of twelve nominess in the "ERSA Hotties" contest at Above the Law: Wolk deserves the ERISA Hottie designation for more than simply being an ERISA expert and teacher. Whether it is designating his license plate ‘ERISA 74’ (see photo) or attempting to convince one of his sons to name…
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Ascher Named Joseph D. Jamail Centennial Chair in Law at Texas
Mark L. Ascher (Texas) has been appointed to the Joseph D. Jamail Centennial Chair in Law effective Sept. 1. From the Texas press release: Professor Ascher specializes in the law of estates and trusts, estate planning, and tax law. Since 1992, he has been responsible for the annual supplementation of the classic, 12-volume treatise, Scott…
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Calfee Awarded Taiwan Public Finance Specialty Medal
Congratulations to Dennis A. Calfee (Florida), who received one of Taiwan’s most prestigious honors, the Public Finance Specialty Medal, for his work over the past twenty years to develop public finance in the Republic of China and train local tax officers to deal with international tax affairs. From the Florida press release: More than 650…
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Devereux Named Inaugural Director of Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation
Michael Devereux has been named the inaugural director of the Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation. He will hold the title of Professor of Business Taxation. From the Oxford press release: Professor Devereux is currently Professor of Economics at Warwick University…. Sir Derek Morris, Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Centre commented: "The appointment…
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Tax Prof-Musician
Interesting article about Tax Prof-Musician Susan Daicoff Dunn (Florida Coastal): Law by Day, Music by Night, by Liz Daube (Jacksonville FInancial News & Daily Record): By day, paralegal Vanya Arcusa and law professor Susan Daicoff Dunn work with the law. But when the sun goes down and the weekend rolls around, Arcusa and Dunn step…
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Welcome (Back) to the Tax Prof Blogosphere: George Mundstock
George Mundstock (Miami) returns to the Tax Prof blogosphere, filling in for Michael Froomkin at Discouse.net. (Michael has a nice introduction of George here.) In his inaugural post, after noting that "the only interesting discussion going on about taxes these days is about the estate and gift tax," George offers his take on Enron. He…