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Paul Caron was named Duane and Kelly Roberts Dean of Pepperdine University School of Law on June 1, 2017. On this blog he shares his ideas, views, news, and more.
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3h ago
GW Hatchet, GW Law to Relocate Students for Final Exams As Cease-Fire Protest Swells: GW Law officials are relocating law students who are taking their final exams Thursday, citing noise concerns from the pro-Palestinian encampment protest in University Yard. In a video sent to law school students, Dean Dayna Bowen ..read more
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8h ago
Haley A. Ritter (Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, Irvine, CA), Stars on the Field, Benchwarmers on the Tax Return: Student-Athletes and the Tax Ramifications of Name, Image, and Likeness Deals, 26 Chap. L. Rev. 401 (2022) With NCAA v. Alston, new state legislation, new NCAA guidance, and potentially new federal legislation ..read more
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20h ago
This week, David Elkins (Netanya, Google Scholar) reviews 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). The first Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) was enacted in 1978 following reports that wealthy taxpayers were able ..read more
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22h ago
ABA, Legal Education Section Releases Employment Data For Graduating Law Class of 2023 ABA Journal, Law Schools Examine Pedagogy As NextGen Bar Exam Looms Bloomberg Law, Big Law Skips Ahead of On-Campus Recruiting in Race for Talent Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Pepperdine Caruso Law 3L Commissioning Service E. Scott Fruehwald ..read more
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22h ago
Bloomberg, How the US Stole $600 Billion From African Americans: 'Black Tax' Book Review Bloomberg, Tax on Rich to Save Social Security Popular With Swing-State Voters Bloomberg, Wealthy Taxpayers Alerted to Leaked Data Years After IRS Breach Cato Institute, Top Tax Rates Are Already on Wrong Side of Laffer Curve ..read more
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22h 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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1d 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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2d 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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2d 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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2d 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