Premier Guide Miami, Senator Jeff Merkley: America is Better Than This: Meet SENATOR JEFF MERKLEY In conversation with WENDI ADELSON discussing America is Better Than This:
Trump’s War Against Migrant Families Thursday, August 29, 7:30pm Coral Gables Congregational Church 3010 De Soto Blvd. [...]
Saturday: This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts Tenured Emory Law Prof Suspended For Using N-Bomb Faces Firing By University Faculty Committee At Oct. 4 Hearing Kwon:
Statutory Interpretation Meets The Internal Revenue Code Law Teaching And Academic Perfectionism Sunday: Hemel: A Place For Place In Federal Tax Law... [...]
I teach the §165 casualty loss deduction even though Congress has suspended it until 2026. That is because Congress continues to permit casualty loss deductions for federally
declared disasters, as defined in §165(i). Since global climate change is causing more intense hurricanes, and may also increase the frequency of earthquakes,... [...]
Daniel Hemel (Chicago), A Place for Place in Federal Tax Law, 45 Ohio N.U. L. Rev. ___ (2019): This essay — which is based on remarks at the 42nd annual Ohio Northern University
Law Review Symposium — examines the place of place-based provisions in federal tax law. [...]
National Law Journal, A New Push to Solve the Mystery of Low Numbers of Minority Law Clerks: A new effort is underway to find the answer to a quandary that has long vexed the
federal judiciary: why so few minorities serve as law clerks. California Supreme Court Justice Goodwin Liu,... [...]
The Dean's Bible Study kicked off last week at Pepperdine Law School (the study is student-led and hosted at a dean's home). I spoke about five influences on my faith journey:
my kids (Jayne and Reed), Abraham, Isaac, Jim Gash, and Alexander Hamilton. The Dean's Bible Study has a long... [...]
There is quite a bit of movement in this week's list of the Top 5 Recent Tax Paper Downloads, with a new #1 paper and new papers debuting on the list at #3, #4, and #5: [416
Downloads] Five Key Research Findings on Wealth Taxation for the Super Rich, by... [...]
Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: A Lesson Of Interest New York Times, More Private Colleges Cut Tuition As Discount Rate Hits All-Time High Of 52% Daniel
Hemel (Chicago), Bullock v. IRS And The Future Of Tax Administrative Law (Part I) (Part 2) Chronicle of Higher Education,... [...]
National Law Journal, ‘Moral Delinquency and Incompetence:’ Interim Emory Law Dean Wanted Prof Fired Over Racial Slur: An Emory University law professor suspended last
year for twice using a racial slur should be fired, according to a letter citing the law school’s dean. [...]
Michelle M. Kwon (Tennessee), Custom-Tailored Law: When Statutory Interpretation Meets the Internal Revenue Code, 97 Neb. L. Rev. 1118 (2019): When it comes to statutory interpretation,
the traditional approaches fail to consider how the laws being interpreted by the courts were actually made. [...]
