Paul L. Caron
Dean
Pepperdine Caruso
School of Law
Teaching
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Technology in the Law School Classroom
The AALS Section on Teaching Methods has published its December 2009 Newsletter with these articles on the use of technology in law school teaching: Small Picture Approach, by William Slomason (Thomas Jefferson) PowerPoint Lectures, by Jiri Toman (Santa Clara) Course Management Websites, by Joan MacCleod Heminway (Tennessee) Use of Clickers in a Research Review Class, by Carrie Teitcher (Brooklyn)…
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Faherty Student Tax Writing Competition — $3,000 First Prize
The Center for Tax Law and Employee Benefits at The John Marshall Law School Chicago sponsors the Paul Faherty Tax Law Writing Competition: Scope: The scope of permissible topics for the writing competition is broad — any aspect of Tax Law is acceptable: … a paper on a public policy issue, a critique of a leading…
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Tax in the Trusts & Estates Course
From the AALS Section on Trusts and Estates Fall 2009 Newsletter (pp. 7-8): Thomas P. Gallanis, the N. William Hines Professor of Law at the University of Iowa College of Law and a past chair of the Section on Trusts and Estates, set out to compile answers to that question by asking Trusts and Estates professors…
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Business Law Student Writing Competition
The Michigan State Journal of Business and Securities Law is now accepting submissions for its annual Elliott A. Spoon Business Law Writing Competition. Submit a journal style article on any current topic concerning business or securities law. The Elliot A. Spoon Business Law Writing Competition is designed to encourage business law scholarship by upper-level law students nationwide. The…
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ACTEC Sponsors 2010 Student Writing Competition
The Legal Education Committee of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC) is sponsoring the 2010 Law Student Writing Competition: Purpose: This competition was created by ACTEC’s Legal Education Committee, which consists of law school professors who teach in the area of trusts and estates and practitioners who teach as adjuncts in the…
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2009 Tannenwald Tax Writing Competition Results
Results in the 2009 Tannenwald Writing Competition, sponsored by the Theodore Tannenwald, Jr. Foundation for Excellence in Tax Scholarship and the American College of Tax Counsel: First Prize ($5,000): David J. Warner (NYU), A Pathway to Fundamental Healthcare Reform? The Exclusion from Income for Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance. Faculty Sponsor: Noël B. Cunningham. Here is the abstract:…
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Allison Christians Named Teacher of the Year at Wisconsin
Tax Prof Allison Christians has been named Teacher of the Year at Wisconsin. From the press release: Allison Christians was chosen Teacher of the Year from among all eligible tenure-track professors at the Law School by a poll of the three most recent classes (excluding the graduating class). Christians joined the law faculty in 2005, after…
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BYU Sweeps 2009 Deloitte Tax Case Study Competition
From the press release: Accounting students from BYU swept the 2009 Deloitte Tax Case Study Competition, taking first place in both the graduate and undergraduate divisions. The two teams each received a $10,000 school award and $2,000 scholarships for each team member. The University of Denver and the University of Central Florida took second and third…
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Written Submissions Are Due Today in ABA Law Student Tax Challenge
Today is the due date for written submissions in the 9th Annual Law Student Tax Challenge sponsored by the ABA Section of Taxation Young Lawyers Forum: An alternative to traditional moot court competitions, the Law Student Tax Challenge asks two-person teams of students to solve a cutting-edge and complex business problem that might arise in everyday tax…
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IFA International Tax Student Writing Competition
The International Fiscal Association is sponsoring an DInternational Tax Student Writing Competition: Subject: Any topic relating to U.S. taxation of income from international activities, including taxation under U.S. tax treaties. Open to: All students during the 2008-09 academic year pursuing a graduate degree with a tax specialty. Submission Deadline: December 31, 2009. Prize: $2,000 cash, plus…
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Gershon: Teaching Tax Using Socioeconomics
I. Richard Gershon (Charleston) has posted Teaching Federal Income Taxation Using Socioeconomics, 41 San Diego L. Rev. 401 (2004), on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Taxpayers do not always act in ways that can be predicted solely by their economic interests. This article explores the use of socioeconomic theory in teaching federal income taxation.
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ABA Tax Section Hosts Careers in Tax Law
The ABA Tax Section is co-hosting Careers in Tax Law at various law schools around the country to introduce J.D. and LL.M. students to careers available in the tax practice area: The career panels typically include three to four lawyers representing private practice, the government, academia, and one of the big four accounting firms. Panelists generally speak…
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2010 Tannenwald Tax Writing Competition
For students completing tax seminar papers this semester: The Theodore Tannenwald, Jr. Foundation for Excellence in Tax Scholarship and American College of Tax Counsel are sponsoring the 2010 Tannenwald Writing Competition: Named for the late Tax Court Judge Theodore Tannenwald, Jr., and designed to perpetuate his dedication to legal scholarship of the highest quality, the…
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What Was Your Most Memorable Tax Class?
The ABA Journal asks, What Was Your Most Memorable Law School Class Session?: What was your most memorable law school class? What happened in that class? A special guest lecture? A spectacular gaffe by the professor or another student? My most memorable class was when, teaching estate planning as an adjunct at Cornell, I asked several questions of…
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2010 Mugel Tax Moot Court Competition
The 2010 Albert R. Mugel National Tax Moot Court Competition (announcement; registration form) sponsored by SUNY-Buffalo: Registration Deadline: November 23, 2009 Problem Released: November 30, 2009 Briefs Due: January 4, 2010 Oral Arguments: February 25-27, 2010 Awards Banquet: February 27, 2010 The Mugel Competition is the oldest national tax moot court competition in the…
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A Seating Chart Tee Shirt
As one who has difficulty learning my students' names each year, I may follow the approach Jack Bogdanski (Lewis & Clark) has taken this fall with his Income Tax class: This is an improvement on his prior clothing effort, and I am sure his students are grateful that he covered this up.
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Call for Applicants: Graduate Student Workshop on the New Fiscal Sociology
The Graduate Student Workshop on the New Fiscal Sociology has issued a Call for Applicants: In recent years, scholars from a variety of disciplines have embarked on an innovative wave of multidisciplinary research on the social and historical sources and consequences of taxation. We invite interested graduate students from history, law, and the social sciences…
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ABA Releases Law Student Tax Challenge Problem
The ABA Section of Taxation Young Lawyers Forum has released the problem (J.D.; LL.M.) and updated rules (J.D.; LL.M.) for the 9th Annual Law Student Tax Challenge: An alternative to traditional moot court competitions, the Law Student Tax Challenge asks two-person teams of students to solve a cutting-edge and complex business problem that might arise in…
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The ‘Good Enough’ Law Teacher
Mary R. Falk (Brooklyn) has published "The Play of Those Who Have Not Yet Heard of Games": Creativity, Compliance, and the "Good Enough" Law Teacher, 6 J. Ass'n Legal Writing Directors 201 (2009). Here is the abstract: If there is creative thinking out there in the law offices and courts of our country, it is present not, in the main,…
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Rosser: On Becoming ‘Professor’ — A Semi-Serious Look in the Mirror
Ezra Rosser (American) has published On Becoming "Professor": A Semi-serious Look in the Mirror, 36 Fla. St. U. L. Rev. 215 (2009). Here is the abstract: Brief parody article about law reviews, socio-economic class, cheese, and the legal professoriate.
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Infanti: Bringing Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity into the Tax Classroom
Anthony C. Infanti (Pittsburgh) has published Bringing Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity into the Tax Classroom, 59 J. Legal Educ. 3 (2009). Here is the abstract: A recent piece in the Journal of Legal Education analyzing student surveys by the Law School Admission Council reports that, despite improvement in the past decade, LGBT students still experience a…
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Maule: Student Focus
Jim Maule (Villanova) — the "Yoda of Tax Teachers" — has just completed a marvelous 12-part series on "Student Focus": I am going to share the portion of my first-day overview in all of the courses I teach that I call "student focus." In short, it is my explanation to students of what I expect…
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McCreary: The Laptop-Free Zone
Jana R. McCreary (Florida Coastal) has published The Laptop-Free Zone, 43 Valparaiso L. Rev. 989 (2009). Here is part of the abstract: This new article … addresses the hotly debated issue of laptops in law school classroom; … This article reports and analyzes the data collected through an IRB-approved survey of almost 450 law school students…
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‘Teaching Naked’ at SMU
In this week's Chronicle of Higher Education: When Computers Leave Classrooms, So Does Boredom, by Jeffrey Young: College leaders usually brag about their tech-filled "smart" classrooms, but a dean at Southern Methodist University is proudly removing computers from lecture halls. José A. Bowen, dean of the Meadows School of the Arts, has challenged his colleagues…