Calvin H. Johnson (Texas), Cut $1 Trillion of Governmental Fat Out of Tax Expenditures, 187 Tax Notes Fed. 2247 (June 23, 2025): In this report, Johnson argues that tax expenditures

are always wasteful because only a fraction of their cost is passed on to the purported beneficiaries and that direct... [...]

New York Times Op-Ed: Why Hiring Professors With Conservative Views Could Backfire on Conservatives, by Jennifer M. Morton (Penn): Is hiring more conservative professors and

admitting more conservative students a solution to liberal bias in American higher education? Many people think so. [...]

Alice Pirlot (Catholic University of Louvain; Google Scholar), Tax Law Scholarship: Introspection and Typology, 8 British Tax Rev. 277 (2025): This article asks seemingly simple

questions about tax law scholarship: What is it? To what extent does it differ from legal scholarship in other fields? Who is targeted by it?... [...]

Marsha Griggs (St. Louis; Google Scholar), Bar Examination: A Verb, Not a Noun, 77 Wash. U. J.L. & Pol’y 6 (2025): The legal profession, long steeped in tradition, is witnessing

a transformative shift in the protocols for licensing new attorneys. Ironically, the proposed NextGen Bar exam has been a major... [...]

Nancy Leong (Denver; Google Scholar), Diversity Messaging After Affirmative Action, 109 Minn. L. Rev. 1059 (2025): Many colleges and universities communicate publicly that

they value racial diversity—a practice this Article will call diversity messaging. [...]

Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) hosts an annual conference today with a panel book salon on The International Tax Revolution: The past decade has witnessed

the creation of a new International Tax Regime (ITR). The original ITR was created a century ago by the League of Nations based... [...]

Noah Hertz Marks (North Carolina), Winning by Losing: The Strategy of Adverse Private Letter Rulings, 66 B.C. L. Rev. 659 (2025) (reviewed here by Blaine Saito (Ohio State;

Google Scholar)): Every year, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issues hundreds of Private Letter Rulings (PLRs) responding to formal taxpayer inquiries about... [...]

Following up on Monday's post, Texas Deans And Faculty Comments To Texas Supreme Court On ABA Accreditation Of Law Schools: Josh Blackman (South Texas; Google Scholar), The

Texas Law Deans Provide A Weak Defense of the ABA's Accreditation Role: Last week, I submitted a comment to the Supreme Court of... [...]

Following up on Monday's post, The Impact Of The One Big Beautiful Bill Act's Federal Student Loan Limits On Law Schools: Business Insider, A Big Change to Student Loans in

Trump's Spending Bill Could Make It Harder to Become a Doctor or Lawyer: One specific student-loan change in the bill... [...]

Jay A. Soled (Rutgers; Google Scholar) & Timothy M. Todd (Liberty; Google Scholar), Hiring Biases Fostered Under the Code, 187 Tax Notes Fed. 2273 (June 23, 2025): In this

article, Soled and Todd argue that current tax law gives U.S. employers a financial incentive to hire job applicants who have... [...]