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Paul L. Caron
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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 It’s Not Just Our Students: ChatGPT Is Coming For Faculty Scholarship Cato Institute: The Federal Tax System Is Highly Progressive The U.S. News Rankings Drama And The Future Of Legal Education Sunday: Inazu: Kicking Off The Legal Vocation Fellowship For Early-Career Christian Attorneys WSJ Op-Ed: The…

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  • TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

    Saturday: This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts After ABA House Of Delegates Rejected Proposal To Let Law Schools Be Test-Optional, 21-Member ABA Council Voted To Resubmit It With Only One Dissenter: 'There Is More Education To Be Done' Tax Policy Center: Itemized Deductions Benefit Whites More Than Blacks And Hispanics This Penn Law…

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  • TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

    Saturday: This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts Should Law Schools Offer A Course On 'Becoming You'? Gershon Presents Top Five Code Sections That Should Not Exist At Alabama With Connecticut And Pittsburgh, 42 Law Schools Are Boycotting The U.S. News Rankings Sunday: NY Times Op-Ed: The Astonishing Moral Beauty Of The Rev. Fred…

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  • TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

    Saturday: This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts In Defense Of The U.S. News Law School Rankings Call For Papers: Norwegian Business School Workshop On Taxation, Citizenship, And Democracy L.A. Times: Sam Bankman-Fried’s Parents Used Their Stanford Home To Bail Him Out Sunday: NY Times Op-Ed: The Rationality And Danger Of Spiritual Experimentation Aprill…

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  • TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

    Saturday: This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts With Vanderbilt, Wisconsin, Tulane, And Creighton, 40 Law Schools Are Boycotting The U.S. News Rankings Jan Brueckner And Blaine Saito Present Tax Papers At UCLA Justice Kavanaugh Says U.S. News Law School Rankings Are 'Very Problematic'; Peer Reputation Is 'Kind Of A Joke' Sunday: David French:…

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  • TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

    Saturday: This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts Larson: American Inheritance—Liberty And Slavery In The Birth Of A Nation Desai: The Crypto Collapse And The End Of The Magical Thinking That Infected Capitalism State Department Shifts From Times New Roman To Calibri To Make Paperwork More 'Inclusive' Sunday: How A Person Of Faith Can…

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  • TaxProf Blog MLK Holiday Weekend Roundup

    Saturday: This Week’s Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts Summary Of Changes To The Forthcoming U.S. News Law School Rankings Stronger Reporting Requirements Are Needed For Opportunity Zones Fordham Is 24th Law School To Boycott U.S. News Rankings Sunday: David French: The Law Is Protecting Religious Liberty, But Christians Are Not Securing Integrity In Their…

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  • TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

    Saturday: This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts With UC-SF, St. John's, And Idaho: 23 Schools Are Now Boycotting The U.S. News Law School Rankings How The IRS’s Misinterpretation Of The ACA Precludes Millions Of Families From Accessing Affordable Health Coverage Maynard: Killing The Motivation Of The Minority Professor Sunday: WSJ Op-Ed: How Damar…

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  • Christmas Weekend Roundup

    Christmas Eve: ‘Twas The Night Before Christmas (Legal Edition) This Week’s Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts A (Less Rocky) Path Forward On International Corporate Tax Reform Cal-Western Is 20th Law School To Boycott U.S. News Rankings Christmas: A Hallelujah Christmas A Pepperdine Christmas I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day NY Times Op-Ed: Christmas…

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  • TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

    Saturday: This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts CLEA Statement On U.S. News Rankings For Clinical Programs Elkins Presents Embracing Tax Avoidance At Hebrew University Office For Civil Rights Investigates Judge Judy's Women-Only Scholarship Program At New York Law School Sunday: Inazu: How Can Christian Faculty Be Interfaith Leaders? NY Times Op-Ed:  Advent, Poetry,…

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  • TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

    Saturday: This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts Virginia Is 16th Law School (And 13th Of Top 15) To Boycott U.S. News Rankings The Role Of Technical Tax Corrections And How Congress Can Revive Them The U.S. News Law School Rankings Boycott Is A Chance To Rethink Legal Education Sunday: NY Times Op-Ed: 303…

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  • TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

    Saturday: This Week’s Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts With Penn And University Of Washington, 13 Law Schools Are Not Participating In U.S. News Rankings; Georgia Is 4th School To Resist Boycott Inspector General: No Political Influence In Comey|McCabe Audits During Trump Administration More Commentary On The U.S. News Law School Rankings Boycott Sunday: Inazu:…

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  • TaxProf Blog Holiday Weekend Roundup

    Thanksgiving: Chicago And Cornell Are First Elite Law Schools To Refuse To Join U.S. News Rankings Boycott UC-Irvine Is First Non-Elite Law School To Join U.S. News Rankings Boycott NY Times Op-Ed: Even Your Political Enemies Deserve A Slice Of Thanksgiving Pie Pepperdine Caruso Law Is Thankful For Greg Ogden NY Times: Tax Prof Cruciverbalist…

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  • TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

    Saturday: This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts ABA Legal Ed Council Votes 15-1 To Make LSAT Optional Beginning With Fall 2026 1L Class The U.S. News Law School Rankings Are Like The Hotel California: You Can Check Out Any Time You Like, But You Can Never Leave With Stanford, Columbia And Georgetown, 6…

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  • TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

    Saturday: This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts Leiter: The End Of The LSAT Is Coming — What Will U.S. News Do? New State Business Tax Climate Index: Blue States Are Worst, Red States Are Best Lawyers Who Had to Pay Off Their Student Debt Think You Should, Too Sunday: Inazu: The Incomprehensible Witness…

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  • TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

    Saturday: This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts Law Schools Expand Fundraising Ambitions As Tuitions Swell Oxford Seeks To Hire Two Business Tax Research Fellows Court Filings Reveal Contradictory Accounts Of Dean's Exit At Texas Southern Law School Sunday: Inazu: Pandemic Forgiveness NY Times Op-Ed: Black, Christian and Transcending the Political Binary FiveThirtyEight: How…

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  • TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

    Saturday: This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts University Of San Diego: A Law School 'Lacked And Lost' Call For Papers: Fordham Journal Of Corporate & Financial Law The Professional Responsibility Case For Valid And Nondiscriminatory Bar Exams Sunday: ‘Alternative’ or ‘Sham’? Yeshiva U. Created A New LGBTQ Club — But Won’t Recognize The…

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  • TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

    Saturday: This Week’s Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts Is Yale Law School Turning Over A New Leaf? NY Times: She’s Inheriting Millions. She Wants Her Wealth Taxed Away. Judge Ho: Restoring America By Resisting Cancel Culture Sunday: French: Christianity, Morality, And Hypocrisy Hamill: Moral Reflections On 21st Century Tax Policy Trends Herschel Walker And…

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  • TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

    Saturday: This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts 2022-23 Law School Admission Cycle Starts Out With A Whisper Ruth Mason Named Director Of Virginia Center For Tax Law Law School Shredding Of Notes To Be Shared With Jury In Law Prof's Discrimination Lawsuit Sunday: NY Times: Why Religious Freedom Matters, Even If You’re Not…

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  • TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

    Saturday: This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts 14th Federal Judge Join Boycott, Refuses To Hire Yale Students As Law Clerks Stewart: Tax And Government In The 21st Century Hastings Descendants Dispute Law School Name Is Racist. They Want The Name Kept — Or A $1.7 Billion Payout Sunday: NY Times Op-Ed: Why The…

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  • TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

    Saturday: This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts Kerr: Conservatives Should Oppose Boycott Of Yale Law Students In Judicial Law Clerk Hiring A Re-examination Of The Capital Gains Tax Preference Rutgers Law School Fundraising Dean Files Gender Discrimination And Equal Pay Lawsuit Sunday: NY Times: F3 (Fitness, Fellowship, Faith): A Cure For Middle-Age Male…

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  • TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

    Saturday: This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts Death Of John Donaldson (William & Mary) Chodorow: Why Trump’s Alleged Real-Estate Shenanigans Went Too Far Celebrating 50 Years Of Pepperdine's Malibu Campus Sunday: NY Times Op-Ed: Parents, Dementia, Memory, And God Inazu: The Life We're Looking For Cardozo Law School Fights Fallout From Yeshiva University…

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  • TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

    Saturday: This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts Cleveland State Committee Votes Unanimously To Remove John Marshall From The Name Of Its Law School Crawford & Afield: Reimagining The Tax System Through The Work Of Dorothy Day NY Times: Can/Should Progressive Law Grads Work In BigLaw? Sunday: Low Anthropology: The Unlikely Key To A…

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  • TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

    Saturday: This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts Columbia Admits Submitting Incorrect Data That Goosed Its U.S. News Ranking To #2 Tax Court Seeks Amicus Briefs On Innocent Spouse Jurisdictional Issue High Anxiety: Racism, The Law, And Legal Education Sunday: WSJ: Pastor Timothy Keller Speaks To The Head And The Heart Inazu: On The…

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  • TaxProf Blog Holiday Weekend Roundup

    Saturday: This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts Sick Of Faculty Meetings That Go Off The Rails? 'Robert's Rules Of Order' Can Help The Myth Of American Income Inequality UCLA Course: The Law Of Elon Musk Sunday: NY Times: A Catholic Podcasting Star Says Theocracy Is Not The Way French: The Christian Case Against…

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