Chronicle of Higher Education op-ed: Law Schools Are Bad for Democracy, by Samuel Moyn (Yale): They whitewash the grubby scramble for power. Yale Law School, where I teach,
was roiled by the confirmation process of Brett Kavanaugh. The usual disagreements about the politics of the day that are healthy in... [...]
Bloomberg, Trump’s Tax Cuts Made a Difference in 2018. Just Not the One Backers Were Hoping For: The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act that President Trump signed a year ago seems to
have boosted economic growth in 2018. But there’s little evidence yet that it’s setting up the U.S. [...]
Michigan Law School has issued a call for papers for its Fifth Annual Junior Scholars Conference: The University of Michigan Law School invites junior scholars to attend the
5th Annual Junior Scholars Conference, which will be held on April 26-27, 2019 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. [...]
Rice University Baker Institute for Public Policy, Taxing Teens: Working Children, Family Businesses, and the Kiddie Tax: Being able to manage money is an important life skill,
but many American youth are not well prepared to do so. A recent Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) study shows that... [...]
Symposium, The Impact of Formative Assessment: Emphasizing Outcome Measures in Legal Education: Ruth Colker, Ellen Deason, Deborah Merritt, Abigail Shoben & Monte Smith (Ohio
State), Formative Assessments: A Law School Case Study, 94 U. Det. Mercy L. Rev. 387 (2017) David Siegel (New England), Should You Bother Reaching Out? Performance... [...]
Emily Grant (Washburn), Helicopter Professors, 53 Gonz. L. Rev. 1 (2018): Helicopter professors, like their parenting counterparts, hover over students, guiding them precisely,
and swooping in to rescue them from any hint of failure or challenge. Just as helicopter parenting can be harmful to children, helicopter professoring poses similar [...]
Two of my favorite Pepperdine tax people: Isai Cortez (left), Director of our Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic at the Union Rescue Mission on Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles; and
Charles Rettig (right), Pepperdine Law School Class of 1981 and Commissioner of the IRS. [...]
Continuing a TaxProf Blog tradition, Steven H. Sholk (Gibbons, Newark, NJ) has made available to readers the annual update of his wonderful 483-page A Guide to Election Year
Activities of Section 501(c)(3) Organizations (PLI 2018). [...]
New York Times op-ed: What Straight-A Students Get Wrong, by Adam Grant: A decade ago, at the end of my first semester teaching at Wharton, a student stopped by for office
hours. He sat down and burst into tears. My mind started cycling through a list of events that could... [...]
Shu-Yi Oei (Boston College) presented Beyond Notice-and-Comment: The Making of the § 199A Regulations (with Leigh Osofsky (North Carolina)) at Northeastern as part of its
Faculty Workshop Series: Congress passes a highly transformative but hastily drafted legal reform. [...]
