Leslie Book (Villanova) presents Administrative Burdens, Sludge, and Individual Taxpayer Rights (with Keith Fogg (Harvard)) at Florida today as part of its Tax Colloquium Series:
The tax system designed by Congress imposes significant administrative burdens on taxpayers. [...]
Darby Dickerson (UIC-John Marshall), Finding the Goldilocks Zone: Negotiating Your First Employment Offer in Legal Academia: This WIP is for individuals, particularly women,
who are about to negotiate their first employment offers in legal academia (whether tenure-line or non-tenure-line). [...]
Daniel Hemel (Chicago) & David A. Weisbach (Chicago), The Behavioral Elasticity of Tax Revenue: This article presents a new measure of the efficiency consequences of tax policies
and explains how this new measure can shed light on a wide range of tax law debates. [...]
Law.com, Minority Partners Disproportionately Placed in Nonequity Partnership Tier: Minority lawyers disproportionately occupy the nonequity partnership tier of the nation’s
largest-grossing law firms compared to their white colleagues. An American Lawyer analysis of 148 firms with two-tiered partnership structures, 131 of which ranked [...]
Ariel Jurow Kleiman (San Diego) presents Tax Limits and the Future of Local Democracy, 133 Harv. L. Rev. ___ (2019), at Northwestern today as part of its Advanced Topics in
Taxation Colloquium Series hosted by Herbert Beller, David Cameron, Charlotte Crane, Sarah Lawsky, Ajay Mehrotra, Philip Postlewaite, and Jeffrey Sheffield:... [...]
Law.com, I Was a Law School Jackass: How I’d Do It Differently Now: As a law student, I was extraordinarily average. Like most of my classmates when I started law school,
I’d been a good student growing up, done well as an undergraduate and had built an identity around being... [...]
Ethan Yale (Virginia) & Gregg D. Polsky (Georgia), Taxing Residential Solar: Residential solar systems are becoming commonplace in many regions of the United States. Use of
such systems raises issues in tax doctrine and policy that are not well appreciated and have not yet been systematically analyzed. [...]
The University of St. Thomas (MN) Journal of Law and Public Policy is hosting a symposium on March 27, 2020, entitled “Inequality of Wealth, Race, and Class, Equality of
Opportunity.” Topics include “Student Loans;” “Social Mobility;” “Housing;” and “The Public Good.” Please submit proposals of 250 to 500 words to... [...]
Here are the results of the July 2019 Pennsylvania Bar Exam for first-time test-takers by law school, along with each school's U.S. News ranking: Bar Pass Rank (Rate) School
US News Rank PA (Overall) 1 (91.4%) Pittsburgh 6 (77) 2 (88.5%) Penn State - Dickinson 4 (71) 3 (88.2%) Pennsylvania... [...]
Bloomberg News, Trump Weighs Weakening Obama Rules to Curb Corporate Inversions: Treasury Department officials are considering rolling back a tax rule aimed at preventing American
companies from moving money offshore to avoid U.S. taxes, according to several people familiar with discussions. [...]
