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6h ago
Monday, April 29: Arun Advani (Warwick; Google Scholar) will present Top Flight: How Responsive Are Top Earners to Tax Rates? (with Cesar Poux (LSE) & Andy Summers (LSE)) as part of the Oxford Centre for Business Taxation Seminars. If you would like to attend, please RSVP here. For individual tax ..read more
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10h ago
Michelle D. Layser (San Diego; Google Scholar), Privacy and Tax Information Collection: A Response to Blank and Glogower: In a recent article published in the Iowa Law Review, Professors Joshua Blank and Ari Glogower proposed a new “actor-based” information reporting regime that would be more comprehensive, more difficult to avoid ..read more
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21h ago
Shannon Weeks McCormack (University of Washington), America's Failure to Rescue Parents: A Narrative of Inequitable Tax "Reform", 76 U.C. L.J. ___ (2025): Other developed nations provide a slew of direct benefits to parents, such as paid parental leave and affordable childcare. America instead takes a circuitous route, heavily relying on ..read more
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21h ago
Reuters, Law Deans Balk at Course Uniformity Proposed by American Bar Association: More than a third of U.S. law school deans say they oppose an American Bar Association proposal that would require greater uniformity across courses, arguing that the ABA is unnecessarily tightening its grip on law schools and constraining ..read more
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21h ago
Reuven S. Avi-Yonah (Michigan; Google Scholar) & Tamir Shanan (Haim Striks Faculty of Law, College of Management, Israel; Google Scholar), Rethinking Taxing Excess Profits, 77 Tax Law. 269 (2024): This article discusses the application of excess profit taxes (EPTs, also referred to as windfall taxes) that have gained renewed interest ..read more
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21h ago
Quacquarelli Symonds has released the 2024 World Law School Rankings as part of its World University Rankings. The methodology uses five indicators: academic reputation, employer reputation, research citations per paper, h-index, International Research Network (IRN). The rankings consist of 370 law schools, 61 in the United States. Here are the ..read more
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1d ago
Alex Raskolnikov (Columbia), Taxing the Ten Percent, 62 Hous. L. Rev. __ (2025): The United States government is rapidly approaching the point when it will have no choice but to raise taxes. But whose taxes should go up, and why? The argument for higher taxes on the top one percent ..read more
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1d ago
Bloomberg Law, Big Law Skips Ahead of On-Campus Recruiting in Race for Talent: Top law firms are rushing to target new recruits, often before students have finished their first year. On-campus interviews, long the chief recruiting method for major firms and controlled by law schools and the National Association for ..read more
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2d ago
David Gamage (Missouri-Columbia; Google Scholar) & Ari Glogower (Northwestern; Google Scholar), The Policy and Politics of Alternative Minimum Taxes, 78 Nat’l Tax J. __ (2024): This essay contributes to a literature offering qualified justifications for Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) structures. We conclude that there is a narrow case for justifying ..read more
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2d ago
Jonathan Turley (George Washington; Google Scholar), Survey: A Majority of Stanford Students Support Cancelling Conservative Speakers a Year After Duncan Controversy: A year ago, Stanford University was embroiled in controversy after federal appellate Judge Kyle Duncan was shouted down by law students. Now a survey by FIRE has found that ..read more