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Pepperdine Caruso
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Weekend Roundup

  • TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

    Saturday: This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts The California Bar Exam Fiasco: Is Provisional Licensure The Appropriate Remedy? Tax Prof Presentations At The Northeastern Junior Scholars Conference Sunday: Douthat: Everyone Should Believe In God NY Times: One Nation, Under God Pew: Decline Of Christianity In The U.S. Has Slowed, May Have Leveled Off…

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  • TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

    Saturday: This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts 2025 ABA Legal Rebels: Joan Howarth (UNLV) And Deborah Jones Merritt (Ohio State) Brunson: Between The Temple And The Tax Collector — The Intersection Of Mormonism And The State Sunday: Douthat: How I Lost My Faith In Atheism The Pope vs. JD Vance On Immigration Saving…

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  • TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

    Saturday: This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts NY Times: IRS To Lay Off Thousands Of Employees Appeals Court Again Blocks Order Requiring LSU To Reinstate Law Prof Who Used F-Bomb In Criticising Gov. Landry And President Trump Loyola Law Review Symposium Today: Gender Bias In The Income Tax Sunday: NY Times: The Best…

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  • TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

    Saturday: This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts As Trump's DEI Crackdown Escalates, Law Faculty Choose Between Silence And Resistance More Rich Taxpayers Learn Their Data Was Stolen in Huge IRS Leak Sunday: NY Times Op-Ed: My Favorite Argument For The Existence Of God Super Bowl LIX: Football's Lessons For America (Vince Lombardi) Most…

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  • TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

    Saturday: This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts Lawless: The Miseducation Of America's Elites Brian Galle Awarded Named Professorship At Georgetown Sunday: Men Flocking To Orthodox Christianity: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly NY Times Op-Ed: Even Religious People Don’t Trust Religious Institutions Bob Jones University In The 21st Century: Religious Colleges That…

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  • TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

    Saturday: This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts WaPo: A Tenured Columbia Law Prof Criticized Israeli Students. It Put Her Job At Risk. Mr. Musk: Cut A Trillion Dollars Of Government Fat Out Of Tax Expenditures Sunday: It’s Time For A New Era Of Christian Civility NY Times: SMU Wants To Separate From The…

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  • TaxProf Blog Holiday Weekend Roundup

    Saturday: This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts Stanford Law Prof Fires Meta As Client, Citing Platform's ‘Descent Into Toxic Masculinity’ NY Times: What Did The Trump Tax Cuts Do? Nobody Really Knows. Sunday: 2025 Religious Law School Rankings NY Times Op-Ed: Why Are So Many Christians So Cruel? God Redeems Even As Wildfires…

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  • TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

    Saturday: This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts AALS Tax Section Program Today: Teaching Tax — Textbooks, Tools, And Techniques Next Week’s Tax Workshop Sunday: NY Times: At The Intersection of A.I. And Spirituality How Intellectuals Found God NY Times Op-Ed: What If Our Democracy Can’t Survive Without Christianity? Supreme Court Grants Cert Petition…

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  • TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

    Saturday: This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts Rapoport: Training Law Students To Model Civility In An Uncivil Social Media World Stepping Up Basis In Living Taxpayer Assets With Upstream Wealth Transfers Through Intentionally Defective Grantor Trusts Sunday: NY Times Interview: Jonathan Roumie Plays Jesus To Millions. It Can Get Intense. WaPo Op-Ed: Living…

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  • TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

    Saturday: This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts Using a Status Email Assignment In First-Year Legal Writing To Address Issues With Student Correspondence First Bitcoin Investor To Get Prison Time For Crypto-Related Tax Evasion Sunday: Christmas Was Always God’s Plan Why ‘A Christmas Carol’ Endures Repeat The Sounding Joy—Until It Becomes Habit Jewish Students…

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  • TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

    Saturday: This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts July 2024 California Bar Exam Results Raskolnikov Presents A New View Of Formal Equality Today At The Italian Society Of Law And Economics Sunday: David Brooks: My Decade-Long Journey To Faith Pope Francis: There Is Faith In Humor Wicked, Luigi Mangione, And Evil More On Pepperdine,…

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  • TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

    Saturday: This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts Pepperdine Academic Freedom Colloquium: Faith And The Academy Empowering Ukraine’s First Legal Responders: Ukrainian-US Collaboration And Clinics The Digital Advertising Tax: An Overstep By State Taxing Jurisdictions Sunday: Pepperdine, Fire, And God ‘Gentle Parenting,’ Human Nature, And God Human Flourishing Is About More Than Just Power…

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  • TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

    Saturday: This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts First-Gen In The Field The Consequences Of Limiting The Tax Deductibility Of R&D Sunday: NY Times Movie Review: ‘Mary’ — An Epic Biopic For The Mother Of God Turning Water To Wine Wasn’t Jesus’ Real Miracle At Cana ‘AI Jesus’ Tests Man’s Faith In Technology And…

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  • TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

    Saturday: This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts Arizona Law School Sells JD-Next Law School Preparation Program To Aspen Ellen Aprill Receives Joanne Garvey Award For Lifetime Achievement In Tax Sunday: Religious Colleges (And Law Schools) That Lean Into Their Faith Are Thriving Disappointed By Christians. Disappointed By Church. Disappointed By God. Jordan Peterson…

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  • TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

    Saturday: This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts NY Times Op-Ed: Universities Like Yale Need A Reckoning Morrow Presents The Income Tax As A Market Correction At Boston College Sunday: NY Times Op-Ed: I Believe in Miracles. Just Not All of Them. Remembering Humility As A Virtue In Our Divided Age How Trump And…

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  • TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

    Saturday: This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts NY Times: Professors Are Uniquely Powerful. That May Be Is Changing. Limitations On Interest Deductibility And Corporate Financial Policy Sunday: NY Times Op-Ed: You Might Consider Praying What Is Needed After The Election? Humility, Grace, And Prayer. A Conservative Perspective On The Synod On Synodality Walter…

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  • TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

    Saturday: This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts Law Firm Accuses DePaul Law Student Of 'Sabotage' In Chicago Bears Hiring Bias Lawsuit 5th Circuit Affirms Tax Court: Tax Rule In Political Donations Tightened Sunday: The Christian Case For Voting Democrat, Republican, And Third Party Presidential Candidates Break Out Faith References In The Final Days…

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  • TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

    Saturday: This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts How To Reform Law Schools: Boycott Law Clerks (Judge Ho) Or Divest Funding (Judge Thapar)? Beauty In Desolation: Addressing America's Waste Crisis Through Tax Reform Sunday: NY Times Op-Ed: Is the World Ready For A Religious Comeback? You Don’t Need A Rule of Life. You Need…

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  • TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

    Saturday: This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts A Blueprint To Reclaim Legal Education From External Rankers Soled: The Nation's Transfer Tax Regime And The Tax Gap Sunday: NY Times Op-Ed: Pope Francis Is Turning Certainty On Its Head Who’s The Christian Presidential Candidate? Americans Say Neither Hayashi: Christianity And The Liberal(ish) Income Tax…

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  • TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

    Saturday: This Week’s Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts Bar Exam Pass Rates Are Up In 70% Of States Narotzki Posts Two Tax Papers On SSRN Sunday: Some Of Christianity’s Biggest Intellectual Skeptics Are Becoming Vocal Converts NY Times: The Impact Of A Masculine Religious Revival On The Church And Society The Bible: A Global…

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  • TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

    Saturday: Tax Whistleblowers Receive $74m Of $263m Recovery; IRS Plans 170% Increase In Whistleblower Office Staff King & Spalding Fights Bias Suit By Straight, White Female Over Summer Associate Diversity Fellowship Program This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts Sunday: The Top Five New Tax Papers NY Times Op-Ed: A Princeton Professor’s Advice To…

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  • TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

    Saturday: Harpaz Presents Global Tax Wars And The Shift To Source-Based Taxation UC-Berkeley Law Prof Targeted As ‘Zionist McCarthyist’ Outside Of His Antisemitism Course This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts Sunday: The Top Five New Tax Papers Dissecting The Frog: How A Meme Explains The Westlaw/Lexis And Generational Divide Over 300 Christian Leaders…

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  • TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

    Saturday: The Biden Administration’s Unconstitutional Student Loan Cancellation Plans & Congress’s Responsibility To Address The Root Cause Of The Student Loan Crisis Why Professors Can’t Teach This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts Sunday: The Top Five New Tax Papers NY Times Op-Ed: Elite Schools Are Thinking About Black Student Admissions The Wrong Way…

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  • TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

    Saturday: Temple And Tulsa Seek To Hire Entry Level Or Lateral Tax Profs If You Want To Be Dean, You Probably Won’t Be Good At It This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts Sunday: The Top Five New Tax Papers Should You Have Kids In Law School? The Unbearable Lightness Of Choosing Children It…

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  • TaxProf Blog Holiday Weekend Roundup

    Saturday: This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts July Multistate Bar Exam Mean Score Is Highest Since 2013 Hoffer: Disaster! Tax Legislation In Crises Sunday: Jesus And The Powers: Christian Political Witness In 2024 NY Times Op-Ed: Catholic Converts Like JD Vance Are Reshaping Republican Politics Fall 2024 Pepperdine Law & Religion Workshop Series…

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