Paul L. Caron
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Pepperdine Caruso
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Barry Currier, Brian Leiter, And Dan Rodriguez On The ABA Legal Ed Council’s Game Of Chicken
Following up on last week’s post, ABA Seeks To Salvage Expansion Of Experiential Learning Accreditation Requirement In Face Of Fierce Opposition: Barry Currier (Former Managing Director, ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar), 6=6, No Matter How You Slice It: The materials published for the Council’s upcoming August 22 open session meeting
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Creighton Seeks To Hire A Tenured Or Tenure-Track Tax Prof
Creighton University College of Law, Faculty Posting: Creighton University School of Law seeks to hire two full-time faculty. The Law School has particular needs in Estate Planning, Health Law, Sports Law, Tax, Wills and Trusts but also is interested in candidates with backgrounds in Commercial Law, Cyber and Technology Law, Human Rights, International Business Transactions,
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The Law Professor As Public Intellectual: Felix Frankfurter And The Public And Its Government
R. B. Bernstein (City College of New York), The Law Professor as Public Intellectual: Felix Frankfurter and The Public and Its Government, 39 Touro L. Rev. 795 (2024): Professor R.B. Bernstein was a legal historian with a J.D. from Harvard Law School who taught at the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership at
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Top Law Schools Boost AI Training As Legal Citation Errors Grow
Bloomberg Law, Top Law Schools Boost AI Training as Legal Citation Errors Grow: Incidents of AI-generated errors in legal citations have increased the pressure on law schools to teach responsible use of the technology. The University of Chicago, University of Pennsylvania, and Yale law schools are among those augmenting curricula. In new or updated classes,
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NY Times:SpaceX Gets Billions From The Government, Pays Little In Taxes
New York Times, SpaceX Gets Billions From the Government. It Gives Little to Nothing Back in Taxes.: Elon Musk’s rocket company relies on federal contracts, but years of losses have most likely let it avoid paying federal income taxes, according to internal company documents. SpaceX, Elon Musk’s rocket and satellite internet company, has received billions
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Deans Push For California To Adopt NextGen Exam, But Bar Leaders Still Want State-Centric Exam Despite February’s Fiasco
The Recorder, State Bar Leaders Maintain Support for Online, California-Centric Bar Exam: A handful of state bar leaders have endorsed returning to a remote, California-centric bar exam, even though law school deans have asked them to adopt the National Conference of Bar Examiners’ new platform as 45 other jurisdictions have done. At a joint meeting
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Fewer Will Qualify For Student Loan Forgiveness Under Proposed New Guidelines; Will Sanctuary Jurisdictions Be Disqualified?
ABA Journal, Fewer Will Qualify for Student Loan Forgiveness Under Proposed New Guidelines; Will Sanctuary Jurisdictions be Disqualified?: Proposed changes to the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program published Monday would revoke eligibility for borrowers working for nonprofit and government organizations deemed to have a “substantial illegal purpose,” a term with a broad definition. The program
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How Grievances At The Harvard Law Review Became Ammunition For The White House
Harvard Crimson, How Grievances at the Harvard Law Review Became Ammunition for the White House: A string of leaks this spring made the Law Review a target for the Trump administration. But the same fights — over the Israel-Palestine conflict, race, and meritocracy — have a longer history inside its own walls. It was November
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WaPo:The NCAA Should Lose Its Nonprofit Status
Washington Post Op-Ed: This Billion-Dollar Sports Behemoth Should Not be a Nonprofit, by Scott Hodge (Former President, Tax Foundation): Despite its nonprofit status, the National Collegiate Athletic Association is big business. Its 2024 financial statement shows that it earned more than $1.3 billion in income from the sale of television rights, advertising, tickets, merchandise and
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Tax Policy In The Trump Administration
Above the Law, How The One Big Beautiful Tax Bill Changes Retirement Planning For Lawyers Bloomberg, Acting or Vacant: The New Status Quo for Leadership Roles at IRS Bloomberg, Leadership Void Leaves Tax Practitioners Blind to IRS Priorities Bloomberg, OECD Proposes Changes to Global Minimum Tax Deal to Appease US Inequality.org, Trump’s Tax Law Clobbers
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Cincinnati Seeks To Hire A Tenured Or Tenure-Track Tax Prof
University of Cincinnati College of Law Job Search: The University of Cincinnati College of Law invites applications from entry-level and lateral candidates for a full-time, open rank tenure-track or tenured faculty position in tax law with an expected start date of August 15, 2026. Ideal candidates will be able to teach courses in federal income
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Next Week’s Tax Workshops
Monday, August 25: Diane Kemker (Loyola-Chicago; Google Scholar) will present Illness/Wellness, Ableism & Perfectibility in the Tax Code, 93 UMKC L. Rev. ___ (2026), as part of the Pepperdine Tax Policy Workshop Series. If you would like to attend, please contact Deanna Newton. Wednesday, August 27: Alex Zhang (Emory; Google Scholar) will present Racial Integration
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ABA Legal Ed Council Tables Proposal To Double Experiential Credit Hours
ABA Journal, ABA Legal Ed Council Holds Off on Experiential Learning Recommendations: After pushback from many law school deans, the council of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar decided that it would take more time to reconsider tweaks to its proposed mandate to increase the number of hands-on learning credits
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Could ‘Hamilton’ Be Made Today?
Following up on last week’s post, Happy Ten-Year Anniversary: Hamilton: The Free Press, Could ‘Hamilton’ Be Made Today?: As the smash-hit musical celebrates its 10th anniversary, it feels like a time capsule from a different America. … I went to the Richard Rodgers Theatre last week to see Hamilton as it was celebrating its 10th
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A Model Of Evidence-Based Practice For Law Schools To Improve System Outcomes
Chance Meyer (New England), A Model of Evidence-Based Practice for Law Schools to Improve System Outcomes, 55 St. Mary’s L.J. 727 (2024): This improvement project models an evidence-based approach for law school decision-makers to find context-sensitive solutions to their context-specific challenges. The project took place at a law school focused on improving the system outcome
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Virtue, Faith, And Roots
Dispatch Faith: Real Virtue Has Roots; Moral Abstraction Will Not Motivate Us To Care For Others, by Kevin Brown (President, Asbury University): In 2018, 31-year-old Jamel Dunn tragically drowned in a Florida retention pond. Physically disabled and potentially disoriented at the time, Dunn waded into the water but struggled to stay afloat. The story drew
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LSAC Suspends Online LSAT In China Amid Cheating Crackdown
Susan L. Krinsky (LSAC), Temporarily Suspending Online LSAT Testing in Mainland China: LSAC is committed to ensuring that the LSAT provides a fair, valid, and reliable assessment that can be used as an important component of the holistic admission process for schools and applicants. LSAC invests heavily in a wide range of tools, programs, and
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ABA Seeks To Salvage Expansion Of Experiential Learning Accreditation Requirement In Face Of Fierce Opposition
Memorandum from Standards Committee to Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar (Aug. 15, 2025) Brian Leiter (Chicago), ABA Council on Legal Education Ignores Critics, Offers No Substantive Responses, and Says “Full Speed Ahead” With Disrupting Legal Education at Most of the Nation’s Law Schools: The contempt for law schools
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Legal Education And The Rule Of Law
James Huffman (Lewis & Clark), Legal Education and the Rule of Law, 60 Cal. W. L. Rev. 571 (2024): There are many explanations for the current state of affairs in the American legal system. But surely, what goes on in our law schools is an important factor. For decades American youth have learned little about
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Aprill:Rejecting Pro-Taxpayer Regulations UnderLoper Bright
Ellen P. Aprill (Loyola-L.A.; Google Scholar), 2025 Erwin N. Griswold Lecture Before the American College of Tax Counsel: Rejecting Pro-Taxpayer Regulations under Loper Bright: Rejecting Pro-Taxpayer Regulations under Loper Bright: In Memorial Hermann Accountable Care Organization v. Commissioner (“Memorial Hermann”), the Fifth Circuit relied on Loper Bright v. Raimondo (Loper Bright) to reject the appellant
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Pepperdine Tax Policy Workshop Series (Fall 2025)
Here is Deanna Newton‘s lineup for the Fall 2025 Pepperdine Tax Policy Workshop Series: August 25: Diane Kemker (Loyola-Chicago; Google Scholar), Illness/Wellness, Ableism & Perfectibility in the Tax Code, 93 UMKC L. Rev. ___ (2026) September 10: Ari Glogower (Northwestern; Google Scholar), Apportioned Direct Taxes, 79 Tax L. Rev. ___ (2026) (with Conor Clarke (Washington
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TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup
Saturday: This Week’s Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts A Model Of Evidence-Based Practice For Law Schools To Improve System Outcomes The Law Professor As Public Intellectual: Felix Frankfurter And The Public And Its Government The New Status Quo For IRS Leadership Roles Sunday: Virtue, Faith, And Roots Trump’s Plan To Conquer Heaven Could ‘Hamilton’
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Chicago Law School Launches New Course: AI Lab
AI Lab is Coming to UChicago Law: Imagine that you’re sitting in a law school classroom learning how to build a generative AI tool. Now imagine that this tool you create is released to millions of people to help them understand and navigate the law. Starting this fall, this scenario will become reality for students
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Update: Alleged Anti-Israel Discrimination At University Of Oregon Law Review
Following up on my previous post, Oregon Law Professor Accuses Oregon Law Review of Anti-Israeli Discrimination: Eugene Volokh (UCLA; Google Scholar), Follow-Up re: Alleged Discrimination at the University of Oregon Law Review: Ofer Raban (Oregon; Google Scholar): [I]n February this year the University of Oregon received a complaint charging unlawful discrimination at the University Oregon
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Suffolk Seeks To Hire An Entry-Level Tenure-Track Tax Prof
Suffolk University, Tenure Track Faculty Position: Suffolk University Law School in Boston seeks to fill an entry-level, tenure-track faculty position, starting in 2026-2027. Seeking candidates with strong academic and professional backgrounds who show promise of high achievement in scholarship, teaching, and service. We welcome future colleagues who would contribute to any of the faculty’s broad