Paul L. Caron
Dean
Pepperdine Caruso
School of Law
Teaching
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IFA International Tax Student Writing Competition
The International Fiscal Association is sponsoring the 2012 International Tax Student Writing Competition (rules here): 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 2011-12 academic year pursuing a graduate degree with a tax specialty. Submission Deadline: September 30, 2012. Prize: …
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Clearinghouse for Law School Summer Teaching Positions
Katharine Van Tassel (St. Thomas U.) of our sister Health Law Prof Blog has launched a clearinghouse for law school summer teaching position.
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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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2011 Tannenwald Tax Writing Competition Results
Here are the results in the 2011 Tannenwald Tax 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): Michael Behrens (UCLA), Citizens United, Tax Policy, and Corporate Governance (Faculty Sponsor: Steven Bank) Second Prize (tie) ($2,000): Jacob Dean (Cincinnati), “Do You Have That…
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NY Times Debate: Should Law Schools Use the Socratic Method?
New York Times, Room for Debate: Rethinking How the Law Is Taught: A recent Times editorial called for changes to legal education. It argued for “apprentice-style learning” and “more courses that train students” for roles as “advocates and counselors, negotiators and deal-shapers, and problem-solvers” instead of a curriculum where professors grill “students about appellate cases.”…
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Cohen: Five Teaching Tips After Five Years on the Harvard Law School Faculty
Glenn Cohen (Harvard), 5 Lessons From 5 Years in the Legal Academy (With Credit Where It Is Due): I thought I’d take the opportunity to reflect on a few lessons I have learned that might be useful to others starting out, and to give credit to those who taught them to me: Office location matters:…
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Holm: A Journey of Faith, Love, and Teaching
Thomas Holm (UCLA), A Journey of Faith, Love, and Teaching, 58 UCLA L. Rev. Disc. 215 (2011): But yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil, for students are with me. They are my rod, my staff. They comfort me. My job is to work closely…
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Seating Chart Cake
Jack Bogdanski (Lewis & Clark) celebrated the coming end of the semester with his Income Tax class with this “delectable, but not deductible” seating chart cake on the night he covered § 274(n): For another creative use of a seating chart, see here.
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Elon Law Review Symposium: Engaged Learning in the Law
Elon Law Review Symposium, Engaged Learning in the Law. 3 Elon L. Rev. 1-131 (2011): Steven I. Friedland (Elon), Symposium Introduction, 3 Elon L. Rev. 1 (2011) Sophie M. Sparrow (New Hampshire), Using Individual and Group Multiple-choice Quizzes to Deepen Students’ Learning, 3 Elon L. Rev. 1 (2011) Michael H. Schwartz (Washburn), Improving Legal Education…
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Do Attractive Professors Get Better Student Evaluations?
Our sister Legal Skills Prof Blog asks [d]o attractive teachers get better student teaching evals?: This article studied the effect of teacher attractiveness, dressing well and possessing a “likeable” personality on student teaching evaluations. Looking Good, Teaching Well? Linking Liking, Looks, and Learning, 34 Teaching of Psychology 5 (2007).
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Tax Clickers in Portugal
João Gama of the Law School of Catholic University of Portugal (Católica) in Lisbon came to Cincinnati last year to observe one of my tax classes. He reports that he is using clickers in his tax class this year (the first time they have been used in a law school course in Portugal):
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LexisNexis Publishes Estate & Gift Taxation
On behalf of LexisNexis and the Graduate Tax Series Board of Editors (Ellen Aprill (Loyola-L.A.), Elliott Manning (Miami), Philip Postlewaite (Northwestern) & David Richardson (Florida)), I am delighted to announce the publication of Estate and Gift Taxation (2011), by Robert Danforth (Washington & Lee) & Brant Hellwig (South Carolina). The Graduate Tax Series is the first…
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Jack Bogdanski’s New Blog Provides Rich Details for Income Tax Course
Jack Bogdanski (Lewis & Clark) has started a fantastic blog for anyone teaching the federal income tax course, And Another Thing. (The subtitle of the blog is “stuff I would have said in my income tax class, if only there had been more time.”). Jack describes what this blog is about: Years ago, my colleague,…
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Cunningham: Digital Evolution in Law School Course Books
Lawrence A. Cunningham (George Washington) has posted Digital Evolution in Law School Course Books: Trade-Offs, Opportunities, and Vigilance, in The Digital Path of the Law (Edward Rubin, ed.) (Cambridge University Press, 2012), on SSRN. Here is the abstract: As we all migrate to the digital world, imagine the future of the law school course book…
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Walker Receives Boston University’s Highest Teaching Honor
BU Today, Metcalf Award Winner David Walker: A student compared one of this year’s Metcalf Award winners to Chuck Norris—and it was a pedagogical compliment. “Long live Walker, Taxes Ranger!” proclaimed the grateful pupil of David Walker, a School of Law professor and Maurice Poch Faculty Research Scholar. Walker is an expert on the federal…
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Best Practices for Clicker Use in the Classroom
Jim Levy (Nova), Best Practices for Clicker Use in the Classroom: Here are a couple of articles I ran across that some of our teacher-readers may find valuable. Clicker Lessons: Assessing and Addressing Student Responses to Audience Response Systems Clickers in the Large Classroom: Current Research and Best-Practices For my take, see Taking Back the…
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Murray: Debunking Myths About Laptops in the Classroom
Kristen E. Murray (Temple) has published Let Them Use Laptops: Debunking the Assumptions Underlying the Debate Over Laptops in the Classroom, 36 Okla. City U. L. Rev. 185 (2011). Here is the abstract: Law professors have struggled with the issue of laptops in the classroom since students started bringing laptops to class almost fifteen years ago.…
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$100m Rule Against Perpetuities Bequest: Lives-in-Being + 21 Years = 92 Years
Wellington Burt, a lumber baron who was once the eighth wealthiest man in America, died in 1919 with a $40-$90 million estate. He died estranged from his family, and his will left only modest bequests to his children and staff ($30,000 per year to a “favorite son,” $1,000 to $5,000 per year to other children and…
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IFA International Tax Student Writing Competition
The International Fiscal Association is sponsoring the 2011 International Tax Student Writing 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 2010-11 academic year pursuing a graduate degree with a tax specialty. Submission Deadline: September 30, 2011. Prize: $2,000…
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Sovern: Student Laptop Use During Class
Jeff Sovern (St. John’s) has posted Law Student Laptop Use During Class for Non-Class Purposes: Temptation v. Incentives on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This article reports on how law students use laptops, based on observations of 1072 laptop users (though there was considerable overlap among those users from one class to another) during 60…
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Subotnik: Why All Students in the Basic Tax Course Should Prepare a Return
Dan Subotnik (Touro College), The Forest and the Trees−An Argument for Training Students in Tax Return Preparation, The Law Teacher, Spring 2011, at 10: Many years back, I got a phone call from the mother of a student. Right at the outset, she began scolding me because her daughter, after taking my income tax course,…
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The Bucket List: The Tax Prof to Take Before You Die
The Bucket List: 23 Law Profs to Take Before You Die, The National Jurist (March 2011): What if you could bring together the most intereesting law profs from around the nation? Not necessarily the professors who would teach you the best. But the faculty that would entertain, inspire and intrique you. … [T]hese are…
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Murray: Debunking Myths About Laptops in the Classroom
Kristen E. Murray (Temple) has posted Let Them Use Laptops: Debunking the Assumptions Underlying the Debate Over Laptops in the Classroom, 36 Okla. City U. L. Rev. ___ (2011), on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Law professors have struggled with the issue of laptops in the classroom since students started bringing laptops to class almost…
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Professor Kingsfield as Teacher and Scholar
Chicago Faculty Blog, Co-authorship, Empiricism and Changes in Legal Scholarship, by Tom Ginsburg & Tom Miles: In the 1973 movie The Paper Chase, there is a well-known scene in which the protagonist law student Hart goes with trepidation to the office of the stern Professor Kingsfield. Hart’s entrance disturbs Professor Kingsfield from his work –…
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IFA International Tax Colloquium and Tax Writing Competition
The inaugural International Tax Colloquium of the U.S. branch of the International Fiscal Association took place last Friday at the 2011 Annual Conference in Atlanta. The chair of the sessions was Brigitte W. Muehlmann (Suffolk), and here were the presenters and their papers: Jon E. Bischel (St. Thomas) & Frank L. Brunetti (Fairleigh Dickinson), Basic Approaches to Tax Treaty Negotiation Yariv…