There is a bit of movement in this week's list of the Top 5 Recent Tax Paper Downloads, with a new paper debuting on the list at #3: [493 Downloads] Federal Tax Procedure (2021

Practitioner Ed.), by John Townsend (Houston) [356 Downloads] Serenity Now! The (Not So) Inclusive Framework and... [...]

Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, Jason Kilborn, UI-Chicago Law School Settle Controversy Over December 2020 Civ Pro Final Exam Question Amia Srinivasan (Oxford),

What’s Wrong With Sex Between Professors And Students? Randall Kennedy (Harvard), Is It Ever OK To Enunciate A Slur In The Classroom? Amna Khalid & Jeffrey... [...]

ABA Journal, At Some Law Schools, Why Are Those Who Teach Called 'Instructor' Rather Than 'Professor'?: At Rutgers, everyone who teaches law is called a professor, but that

is not true at many other institutions, where faculty who teach topics including legal writing, academic success and clinical work are often... [...]

Karen Sloan (Reuters), Ominous Early Signs Emerge For July 2021 Bar Exam Pass Rates: Data from the July 2021 bar exam is starting to roll in, and test-takers' performance isn't

looking great. The average score on the Multistate Bar Exam, the 200-question multiple-choice portion of the test, fell to 140.4.... [...]

Allison Christians (McGill) and Leandra Lederman (Indiana) introduce Season 2 of their YouTube series, Break Into Tax (BiT): Professors Leandra Lederman & Allison Christians

summarize Season 1 & bring Break Into Tax into Season 2! Prof. Lederman will run Season 2, and it will feature some guest co-hosts. [...]

Ruth Mason (Virginia; Google Scholar) & Michael Knoll (Pennsylvania) present Unbundling Undue Burdens virtually today at Florida as part of its Tax Policy Colloquium hosted

by David Hasen: Criticizing dormant Commerce Clause doctrine for, among other reasons, involving arbitrary distinctions and inviting judicial legislation, jurists [...]

Christine Kim (Utah; Google Scholar) presents A New Framework for Digital Taxation (with Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan; Google Scholar) & Karen Sam)) virtually at Boston College

today as part of its Tax Policy Collaborative: The international tax regime has wide implications for business, trade, and the international political economy. [...]

Barron's, Democrats Are Leaving a Win-Win Tax Reform on the Table Bloomberg, House Democrats Set to Propose Corporate Tax Rate of 26.5% Bloomberg, More Than $279 Billion Sits

In IRAs With At Least $5 Million ach. They Allow the Wealthy to Avoid Taxes and Pass on Their Fortune. [...]

ABA Journal, At some law schools, why are those who teach called 'instructor' rather than 'professor'? Swethaa Ballakrishnen (UC-Irvine) & Carole Silver (Northwestern), A New

Minority? International JD Students in US Law Schools Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Admissions Data At 75% Of The U.S. [...]

Washington Post op-ed: Congress Is Passing Up a Chance to Close a Tax Loophole — and the Racial Wealth Gap, by Dorothy Brown (Emory; Visiting at Georgetown): The ‘step-up

in basis’ rule benefits a small, mostly White, group of Americans. The United States has a huge racial wealth gap: The... [...]