Paul L. Caron
Dean
Pepperdine Caruso
School of Law
Tax Profs
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Tax Profs Quoted in Press Coverage of National Taxpayer Advocates’s Report to Congress
Tax Profs were quoted in press coverage of yesterday’s release of the 2005 Annual Report to Congress by National Taxpayer Advocate Nina E. Olson (blogged here): New York Times, I.R.S. Move Said to Hurt the Poor, by David Cay Johnston: Tax refunds sought by 1.6 million poor Americans over the last five years were frozen…
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Yablon on 1,187 Tax Quotations
Jeffery L. Yablon (Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, Washington, D.C.) has published his annual edition of As Certain as Death — Quotations About Taxes (2006 Edition), 110 Tax Notes 103 (Jan. 9, 2006), also available on the Tax Analysts web site as Doc 2005-24966, 2006 TNT 6-13. The article contains 1,187 quotations about taxes, including this…
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Tax Notes on Top 10 Tax Stories of 2005
Tax Notes has reprinted our post on The Top 10 Tax Stories of 2005, 110 Tax Notes 169 (Jan. 9, 2006), also available on the Tax Analysts web site as Doc 2006-150, 2006 TNT 6-12.
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Tax Profs Join Letter Opposing Alito Confirmation
Several Tax profs have joined a letter signed by 500 law professors opposing the confirmation of Judge Samuel A. Alito, Jr. to the Supreme Court. Here is the opening of the letter addressed to Senators Specter and Leahy: As law professors from across the United States, we write to express our opposition to the confirmation…
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The Top 10 Tax Stories of 2005
Here are the Top 10 Tax Stories of 2005, generated from a post on the TaxProf Discussion Group the last week of December 2005: 1. The Report of the President’s Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform (Nov. 1, 2005) (TaxProf Blog coverage here), by Steve Johnson, E.L. Wiegand Professor of Law, William S. Boyd School…
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Gary Named Academic Dean at Oregon
Susan Gary has been named Academic Dean at Oregon. From the Oregon press release: Associate Professor Susan Gary; who specializes in the regulation of nonprofit organizations, estate planning, and trusts and estates; will take over as academic dean. [Interim Dean Margaret L.] Paris said in an email to the faculty and staff, “I am really…
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Maule Wins “Best Law Professor Blog” Award
Kudos to Jim Maule (Villanova), whose Mauled Again was named the "Best Law Professor Blog" in Dennis Kennedy’s annual Best of Legal Blogging Awards (the Blawggies): As Professor Maule says, his blog features "more than occasional commentary on tax law, legal education, the First Amendment, religion, and law generally, with sporadic attempts to connect all…
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Teaching Fellowships for Aspiring Law Professors
For practitioners and others contemplating joining the law professor ranks, many law schools offer wonderful opportunities to transition into the legal academy with one- or two-year fellowships which allow you to enter the AALS Faculty Recruitment Conference (the "meat market") armed with teaching experience and published scholarship under your belt: Alabama: Hugo Black Fellowship Program…
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Professor Personal Ads
Check out these professor personal ads in the Chronicle of Higher Education (yet one more reason I am thankful to be married!) (Thanks to Ann Murphy for the tip.)
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Weisbach Turns Down Harvard to Remain at Chicago
David Weisbach has turned down a tenured offer from Harvard to remain at Chicago. (Thanks to our sister Leiter’s Law School Reports for the tip.).
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Hickman Debuts in Blogosphere with Post Questioning Use of PowerPoint in Tax Class
A hearty blogosphere welcome to Kristin Hickman (Minnesota), who is guest blogging on PrawfsBlawg. Her maiden post recounts her use of PowerPoint for the first time this semester in teaching Tax I. She is stinting in her praise of PowerPoint: On the one hand, the PowerPoint is easier to read than my handwriting, and it’s…
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Colombo Quoted in Cleveland Plain Dealer
John Colombo (Illinois) was quoted in yesterday’s Cleveland Plain Dealer on a recent ruling by the Ohio Tax Commission revoking a property tax exemption for a portion of the Cleveland Clinic. See: Ruling Presents New Challenge to Hospitals’ Tax-Exempt Status Illinois Press Release
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Peroni Wins Texas Teaching Award
Robert J. Peroni (Texas) has won the 2006 Texas Exes’ Faculty Teaching Award. From the Texas Exes’ press release: The Texas Exes Teaching Awards recognize one professor and one TA in each college who have had a positive influence on the educational experience of university students. The purpose of these awards is to promote quality…
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Who Are the “Hot” Tax Profs?
Interesting article on Slate: The Hottest Professor on Campus; What Happens When Students Rate Their Teachers Online Dear Professors, the college students of America are silently judging you. While you are nattering on in lecture, they are clicking over to RateMyProfessors.com—remember, more than 42% of college classrooms now have wireless—and assessing your performance. As of…
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Tax Prof/Dean Schizer on Short List for Next Supreme Court Vacancy?
Interesting article (by Anna Schneider-Mayerson) in the New York Observer, The Little Supremes: Meet the Next Generation of Robertses and Alitos: A “Little Supreme,” one of a handful of earnest, platinum-résumé’d law geeks whose prospects for the Big Bench are the source of constant speculation among friends and colleagues…. There are at least a few…
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Syracuse Looking to Hire Tax Prof
Syracuse invites applicants for two tenure track or tenured openings, beginning Fall 2006, in a variety of areas, including tax. Candidates should be able to teach a course in the first year curriculum. Candidates with prior teaching experience and scholarship are preferred. For Although applications will be accepted until the positions are filled, priority will…
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Hellerstein Appointed Trustee of ATPI
The American Tax Policy Institute has named Walter Hellerstein, Shackelford Distinguished Professor of Taxation Law at the University of Georgia, as a trustee. From Georgia’s press release: Hellerstein joins 29 other leading tax professionals from the academic, government, business and legal communities on this distinguished panel, which includes experts from The Brookings Institution, The Urban…
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Tax Profs Join Letter Challenging Use of Military Commissions to Try “Enemy Combatants”
450 law professors, led by Bruce Ackerman (Yale), David Cole (Georgetown), Rosa Ehrenreich Brooks (Virginia), Deena Hurwitz (Virginia), and Judith Resnik (Yale), have issued a statement calling on the Supreme Court to grant review of Hamdan v. Rumsfeld (No. 05-184), a case challenging the President’s creation of military commissions to try "unlawful combatants": We, the…
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Queen’s University Looking to Hire Tax Prof
Queen’s University (Kingston, Ontario, Canada) is looking to hire a Tax Prof: Queen’s University Faculty of Law invites applications for up to four tenure-track or tenured appointments, particularly at the Assistant or Associate Professor level, to begin July 1, 2006. The Faculty is seeking candidates who will contribute actively to the life of the academic…
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Kaplan Named Distinguished Fellow of Canadian Centre for Elder Law Studies
Richard L. Kaplan (Illinois) has been named a Distinguished Fellow of the Canadian Centre for Elder Law Studies. From the Illinois press release: The Centre operates under the auspices of the British Columbia Law Institute and encourages research and scholarship in elder law as well as advancing law reform in this area. In October, he…
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Utah Looking to Hire Lateral and Visiting Tax Profs
The University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law invites applications and nominations for an experienced, permanent faculty position, as well as a visiting position, in a varity of areas, including tax. To apply, send a CV and references to Chair, Faculty Recruitment Committee, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law, 332 South 1400…
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Penn State Looking to Hire Tax Prof
Penn State-Dickinson is looking to hire a Tax Prof (either entry-level or lateral) to begin in 2006, 2007, or 2008: The law school has immediate needs for scholars whose work focuses on business associations, tax, securities, mergers and acquisitions, banking, bankruptcy, commercial law, contracts, environmental law, criminal law and procedure, intellectual property, state and local…
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Tax Prof Westin Sued by Leonard Cohen
The New York Times reports that Tax Prof Richard A. Westin (Kentucky) has been sued by singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen: Betrayal and bitterness have been running themes in Leonard Cohen’s work ever since "Songs of Leonard Cohen," the Canadian singer-songwriter’s debut album, appeared in 1968. Now they figure prominently in a sordid legal melodrama engulfing his…
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Brennen Named to Endowed Professorship in Tax Law at Mercer
Kudos to David A. Brennen, named to the Ellison Capers Palmer, Sr., Endowed Professorship in Tax Law at Mercer University (prevously blogged here.) From the brochure (attached here): Professor Brennen is one of the country’s top experts on nonprofit law. He is one of thirty-eight acacemics, practitioners and judges appointed as advisers for the American…
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Tax and the Seven Deadly Sins, by Jim Maule (Villanova)
It started simply enough. With these sorts of things, that’s often the case. A person who teaches tax, but not in a law school, asked Paul Caron, master of the TaxProfBlog and founder of the TaxProf Listserv, if he would canvass the list members for their suggestions of tax cases that illustrate the seven deadly…