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Following up on my previous posts: Erwin Chemerinsky: Nothing Has Prepared Me For The Antisemitism I See On College Campuses Now (Oct. 31, 2023) Anti-Israel Agitators Derail Dinner At Home Of UC Berkeley Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky (Apr. 11, 2024) New York Times, At Berkeley, a Protest at a Dean’s ..read more
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19h ago
Festschrift to Honor Ellen Aprill, 56 Loy. L.A. L. Rev. 1135-1354 (2023): Samuel D. Brunson (Loyola-Chicago; Google Scholar) & Philip Hackney (Pittsburgh; Google Scholar), A More Capacious Conception of Church, 56 Loy. L.A. L. Rev. 1135 (2023) (Commentator: Michael Helfand (Pepperdine; Google Scholar)) Roger Paul Colinvaux (Catholic), Strings Are Attached ..read more
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19h ago
ABA Journal, Shake-Up In US News’ 2024 Law School Rankings ABA Journal, Wisconsin Bar Redefines ‘Diversity’ To Settle Challenge To Clerkship Program; Both Sides Claim Success College Fix, Quinnipiac Law Scholarship Excludes Heterosexual Males, Faces Title IX Complaint Daily Report, Emory Law Marks Professor's 40 Years of Feminist Studies, Dedicates ..read more
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19h ago
New York Times Op-Ed: It’s Time to End the Quiet Cruelty of Property Taxes, by Andrew W. Kahrl (Virginia; Author, The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America (University of Chicago Press 2024)): Property taxes, the lifeblood of local governments and school districts, are among the ..read more
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19h ago
Today (April 15, of course) marks the 20-year anniversary of TaxProf Blog (and the 29-year anniversary of the TaxProf Email Discussion Group). In 2004, I was in my fourteenth year on the University of Cincinnati College of Law faculty. I would be taking my son (age 13) to a ranch ..read more
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The new 2024-25 U.S. News Criminal Law Rankings include the criminal law programs at 196 law schools (the faculty survey had a 49% response rate). Here are the Top 50: Rank School 1 NYU 2 Harvard 2 Stanford 4 UC-Berkeley 5 Georgetown 5 Michigan 7 Columbia 7 Duke 7 Penn ..read more
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Richard Winchester (Seton Hall; Google Scholar) delivers the Phyllis W. Beck Chair In Law Lecture on A Simple Tax Case Complicated by Race at Temple today at 12:00 PM EST (registration): On Tax Day, Phyllis W. Beck Chair in Law Richard Winchester, an Associate Professor at Seton Hall School of ..read more
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Saturday: This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts 2024-25 U.S. News Constitutional Law Rankings March's Tax Reflections With Reuven Avi-Yonah Sunday: Vatican Says Gender Change And Fluidity Are Threat To Human Dignity; Pope Francis Slams Door On 'Cafeteria Catholics' NY Times & WSJ Book Reviews: Enslaved Christians And The ..read more
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New York Times, Vatican Document Casts Gender Change and Fluidity as Threat to Human Dignity: The statement is likely to be embraced by conservatives and stir consternation among L.G.B.T.Q. advocates who fear it will be used as a cudgel against transgender people. The Vatican on Monday issued a new document ..read more
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Wall Street Journal Book Review: The Bible’s Hidden Contributors, by Peter Thonemann (Oxford) (reviewing Candida Ross (University of Birmingham), God's Ghostwriters: Enslaved Christians and the Making of the Bible (2024)): “The stupid, the lowborn, the gullible; slaves, women, and children.” For the second-century pagan writer Celsus, it was easy to ..read more