Debra S. Austin (Denver), Windmills of Your Mind: Understanding the Neurobiology of Emotion, 54 Wake Forest L. Rev. ___ (2019): Intelligence has been parsed into categories
including general intelligence (IQ), which is cognitive capacity, and emotional intelligence (EQ), describing social competency. [...]
Saturday: This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts 88.6% Of The Class Of 2016 Passed The Bar Within 2 Years Of Graduation Humans vs. Robots: Rethinking Policy For A
More Sustainable Future College Wouldn’t Cost So Much If Students And Faculty Worked Harder Sunday: Disinvitation Of Conservative Harvard Professor... [...]
Inside Higher Ed, A College Divided Over a Harvard Professor: Concordia University’s Liberal Arts College asked the conservative political philosopher Harvey Mansfield to
speak at its 40th anniversary gala, planned for next month. Citing alumni backlash over Mansfield’s past controversial statements on gender and gay marriage, the [...]
Kenneth J. McKenzie (Calgary) & Michael Smart (Toronto), Tax Policy Next to the Elephant: Business Tax Reform in the Wake of the US Tax Cuts and Jobs Act: While there is considerable
uncertainty regarding the US Tax Cut and Jobs Act’s (TCJA) economic and fiscal impacts, one thing is certain... [...]
New York Times op-ed: What It Means to Worship a Man Crucified as a Criminal, by Peter Wehner (Ethics & Public Policy Center): A God who allows suffering is a mystery, but
so is a God who suffered. ... The Episcopal priest Fleming Rutledge has written that until the accounts... [...]
This week's list of the Top 5 Recent Tax Paper Downloads is the same as last week's list: [287 Downloads] Residual Profit Allocation by Income, by Michael Devereux (Oxford),
Alan Auerbach (UC-Berkeley), Michael Keen (IMF), Paul Oosterhuis (Skadden), Wolfgang Schön (Max Planck) & John Vella (Oxford) (reviewed by Christine Kim... [...]
ABA Section of Legal Education Releases Comprehensive Report on Bar Passage Data: The Managing Director’s Office of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the
Bar released today a comprehensive set of data on bar passage outcomes for American Bar Association-approved law schools. [...]
Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson For Tax Day: When Tax Prep Software Gets It Wrong Law.com, The Big Fail: Why Bar Pass Rates Have Sunk To Record Lows New York Times, Although
Trump Cut Taxes For Most Americans, Democrats Convinced The Public That They Paid More Taxes The Atlantic, The... [...]
Kathryn Kisska-Schulze (Clemson University College of Business) & Karie Davis-Nozemack (Georgia Institute of Technology), Humans vs. Robots: Rethinking Policy For A More Sustainable
Future, 79 Md. L. Rev. ___ (2020): Robotic and software innovation threatens to displace one third of the global workforce by 2030. [...]
Wall Street Journal op-ed: College Wouldn’t Cost So Much If Students and Faculty Worked Harder, by Richard Vedder (Ohio University; author, Restoring the Promise: American
Higher Education Today (2019)): I assign far less reading, demand less writing, and give higher grades than I did two generations ago. [...]
