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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…
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Heen Named General Counsel of AAUP
Kudos to Tax Prof Mary L. Heen (Richmond), who has been appointed General Counsel of the American Association of University Professors for a two-year term commencing this month. From the Richmond press release: She succeeds David M. Rabban, professor of law at the University of Texas, who provided distinguished service as AAUP General Counsel for…
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Who Are the Luckiest (and Unluckiest) Tax Profs?
Interesting article in the Weekend Wall Street Journal: Baseball Confronts The Luck Factor; Is That Team Good — or Just Lucky? Using Research on Randomness That’s Shaking Up Other Fields, Number-Crunchers Say They Can Answer the Question, by Russell Adams: Even in the numbers-obsessed world of sports, baseball has stood out for its efforts to…
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Tax Prof Spouse Swap?
Interesting article in today’s Inside Higher Ed: Alternate Academic Reality, by Rob Capriccioso: “The Seedy Side of Tweed: Professors Swap Wives.” If Jerry Springer was in charge of casting a new reality program endeavor for FOX television, that could well be the title. He’s not, but Rocket Science Laboratories, the company behind many a reality…
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Holo Wins Dana Latham Award
Kudos to Sandy Holo, who will receive the Dana Latham Award at a luncheon at today’s annual meeting of the Los Angeles Bar Association Tax Section: Sanford Holo is considered one of the most prominent tax lawyers in California. For more than forty years, he has practiced as a tax and transactional lawyer, with a…
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McCaffery Named Interim Dean at USC
Congratulations to Tax Prof Edward McCaffery, named Interim Dean at USC. From the June 2 memorandum from the USC Provost: On behalf of President Sample, I am pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Edward J. McCaffery, the Robert C. Packard Trustee Chair in Law and Political Science, as the Dean of the USC Gould…
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Foundation Rescinds Book Award to Death by a Thousand Cuts Because of Co-Author’s Opposition to Unionization of Yale Graduate Students
Yesterday, we blogged the Yale press release (dated 5/23/06) stating that Michael J. Graetz (Yale) & Ian Shapiro (Yale) had won the Sidney Hillman Foundation Award for their book Death by a Thousand Cuts: The Fight over Taxing Inherited Wealth (Princeton University Press, 2005). According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, the foundation at the…
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Graetz & Shapiro Win Sidney Hillman Foundation Award for Death by a Thousand Cuts
Michael J. Graetz (Yale) & Ian Shapiro (Yale) have won the Sidney Hillman Foundation Award for their book Death by a Thousand Cuts: The Fight over Taxing Inherited Wealth (Princeton University Press, 2005). From the Yale press release: The Sidney Hillman Foundation recognizes writers, journalists, and public figures who pursue social justice and public policy…
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Abrams Wins University Teaching Award at Emory
Congratulations to Tax Prof Howard E. Abrams for winning the Williams Award for Distinguished Teaching at Emory: Howard E. Abrams, professor of law, received the Emory Williams Award for Distinguished Teaching, Emory University’s most prestigious award for teaching, during the university’s commencement ceremony on May 15. Seven Emory Williams Awards are given to faculty members…
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McLaughlin Wins Teacher of the Year Award at Utah
Congratulations to Tax Prof Nancy A. McLaughlin, who was presented with the 2006 Peter W. Billings Excellence in Teaching Award at the commencement ceremony honoring the graduates of the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law: The Excellence in Teaching Award is given annually to a particularly dedicated, gifted, and enthusiastic professor who is…
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Leviner Selected for Chancellor’s List
Congratulations to Sagit Leviner, an SJD candidate at Michigan with a tax concentration: she has been selected for the second year to appear in The Chancellor’s List, which honors the Top 1% of graduate students in the United States from 3000 colleges and universities: Being selected for nomination to The Chancellor’s List is an honor…
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Neil Buchanan (Rutgers-Newark): The Joint Economic Committee Claims that the Estate Tax Breaks Up Family Businesses: Does Saying So Make it True? (5/11) Tax Ben Stein’s Money! (5/9) Distortions and Tax Rhetoric (5/7) Vic Fleischer (Colorado): Angels Get Some Manna (5/12) Jim Maule (Villanova): More Reasons to Reject the Claim That the Wealthy Are Suffering…
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Tax Prof Confession
Neil Buchanan (Rutgers-Newark), guest blogging on ataxingmatter, draws three public policy lessons from his decision ro hire a preparer for the first time this year to do his own taxes.
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Fleischer Named Editor of New Entrepreneurship & Law Journal
Kudos to Vic Fleischer (UCLA, moving to Colorado), who will be the editor of the new Entrepreneurship & Law Journal on SSRN. The journal is sponsored by the Kauffman Foundation. Vic describes the new journal: As you would expect, the journal will publish working papers and accepted papers that touch on entrepreneurship & the law,…
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Larry Summers on Tax Profs
Deposed Harvard President Larry Summers on Tax Profs: In a conversation with the law school’s lateral appointments committee, he said that not so long ago, the people who made tax policy were all lawyers–but that now, nearly all are economists. He wondered whether that fact said something troubling about legal education. William J. Stuntz, Future…
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New International Tax Blog
A hearty welcome to Michael A. Livingston (Rutgers-Camden), who joins the tax prof blogosphere with From Milan to Mumbai. Michael’s inaugural post explains the three objectives of his blog: The first is to provide insightful or at least readable commentary on major developments in international and comparative taxation, a subject (especially the latter) which is…
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Wanted: Tax Lawyer Stud
Peter Lattman’s WSJ Law Blog reports that the ABC show The Bachelor is looking to cast "a great-looking, tall, successful, charismatic, 27-to-33-year-old, single lawyer. Though the network is unclear on the exact timing of the show, it will reportedly be filmed in yet-to-be-named exotic, tropical location."
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Tobin Named Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Ohio State
Congratulations to Donald Tobin, who has been named Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Ohio State, effective August 2006.
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Tax Prof Teachers of the Year
Belated congratulations to the Tax Profs named Teachers of the Year at their schools (and honored at the recent AALS Annual Meeting): Bridget J. Crawford (Pace) Bradley E.S Fogel (St. Louis) Christopher H. Hanna (SMU) …
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Tax Profs Aren’t Dangerous?
There is nary a Tax Prof in David Horowitz’s new book, The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America. For the make-up of the list, see: Law Profs on the list The entire 101 names Inside Higher Ed reports on the book in David Horowitz Has a List: Most of the 377-page book…
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Tax Prof Marriage: Vic Fleischer & Miranda Perry
A pre-Valentine’s Day congratulations to Vic Fleischer and Miranda Perry, who will be getting married. Vic will be leaving UCLA to join Miranda on the tax faculty at Colorado. As Vic notes in his announcement on Conglomerate, they met at the conference on Public Economics and Tax Policy at the Robert D. Burch Center for…
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Spragens Wins ABA Tax Section’s Pro Bono Award
Janet R. Spragens (American) will receive the ABA Tax Section’s annual Pro Bono Award on Friday at the 2006 Midyear Meeting in San Diego. From the press release: Spragens founded one of the earliest and most successful low-income taxpayer clinics in the country in 1990 — the Federal Tax Clinic at American University’s Washington College…
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Tax Analysts’ Interview with George Yin
At Joe Kristan’s request, we are happy to blog here Tax Analysts’ interesting interview with George K. Yin, who recently departed as Chief of Staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation to rejoin the faculty at Virginia, where he will be the inaugural Edwin S. Cohen Distinguished Professor of Law and Taxation. Joseph J. Thorndike…
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NCCU’s Walter Nunnallee “Makes Tax Law Fun”
There is a wonderful article in the Herald Sun about Walter H. Nunnallee (North Carolina Central (he also has taught tax as an adjunct at Duke and North Carolina)). Here is part of the opening of the article, NCCU Professor Making Tax Law Fun: [T]o Walter Nunnallee and his students at NCCU’s Law School, the…
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Welcome (Back) to the Tax Prof Blogosphere: Allison Christians
Welcome (back) to the tax prof blogosphere: Allison Christians (Wisconsin). Allison is guest blogging for the second time at Conglomerate; she also previously guest blogged on TaxProf Blog. Her inaugural posts this time around are on: Executive Compensation The Shatner Stone