Following up on my previous post, Eighteen Law Schools Would Fail ABA's Proposed 75% Bar Passage Within 2 Years Accreditation Standard: Derek Muller (Pepperdine), Law School
Ruin Porn Hits USA Today: I actually laughed out loud when I started reading this “yearlong investigation” by four USA Today journalists on the... [...]
Goldburn P. Maynard Jr. (Louisville) presents Legislating Tax Cuts With Tall Tales at Pepperdine today as part of our Tax Policy Workshop Series hosted by Dorothy Brown and
Paul Caron and funded in part by a generous gift from Scott Racine: Part I provides a brief introduction to the work... [...]
Tessa R. Davis (South Carolina) presented Freezing the Future: Elective Egg Freezing and the Limits of the Medical Expense Deduction, 106 Ky. L. Rev. ___ (2019), last week
at SMU as part of its Faculty Forum Series: Section 213 of the Internal Revenue Code (the Code) allows a deduction for... [...]
Law.com, New York and Cali Are Hot. But Lateral Hiring Is Big In Texas, Too: Breaking down all the lateral move activity in 2018 by region, we see some things we might expect.
Hiring at Am Law 200 firms is high in cities like New York and Los Angeles. But... [...]
Andrew M. Perlman (Dean, Suffolk), The Public's Unmet Need for Legal Services & What Law Schools Can Do About It: Civil legal services in the United States are increasingly
unaffordable and inaccessible. Although the causes are complex, law schools can help in three ways beyond simply offering free legal clinics... [...]
Following up on my previous posts (links below): Robert Anderson (Pepperdine), Some Preliminary Contrarian Thoughts on the US News Proposal to Rank Based on Scholarly Impact:
There are several lines of criticism. One group worriesthat releasing such a ranking will create incentives for law schools to focus too much on... [...]
Grand Forks Herald, UND Law School Looks Internally After Failed Dean Search: Although an external search for a new UND School of Law dean was not successful, faculty, staff
and students say an internal candidate could end up being a better option in the long run. [...]
Last week’s case of Steven Samaniego v. Commissioner, T.C. Memo. 2019-7 (Feb. 6, 2019) (Judge Lauber) teaches a great (and short) lesson about the Tax Court’s subject matter
jurisdiction. Mr. Samaniego had asked for a CDP hearing but the Office of Appeals thought his request was untimely. [...]
Saturday: This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts Is Email Making Professors Stupid — 'Digital Torture For Serious Scholars'? WSJ: The Next Tax Revolution? NY Times:
Everyone Needs Legal Help. That Doesn’t Mean Everyone Needs A Lawyer. Sunday: 2019 Religious Law School Rankings WSJ: The New World Of Taxes:... [...]
The Most Devout Law Schools (preLaw Winter 2019): We gathered detailed information from the religiously-affiliated schools and from other sources. From that data, we compiled
a ranking based on: percentage and activity of students who belong to the faith; percentage and activity of faculty who belong to the faith; number... [...]
