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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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17h 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
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17h ago
Adam N. Michel (Cato Institute), President Biden Would Make the U.S. a Tax Rate Outlier: President Joe Biden proposes raising the corporate income tax rate, capital gains tax rate, and personal income tax rates, among other tax increases. These hikes would make the United States an international outlier, with some ..read more
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19h ago
Following up on yesterday's post, 2024-25 U.S. News Omnibus Specialty Rankings: Here are the law schools whose U.S. News Omnibus Specialty Ranking most exceeds their overall U.S. News Ranking: School Specialty Rank Overall Rank Difference 1 Santa Clara 71 158 +87 2 American* 27 98 +71 3 Illinois-Chicago 97 161 ..read more
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1d ago
Law.com, Nearly 14% of ABA-Accredited US Law Schools Haven't Had a Woman Dean: A total of 27 (nearly 14%) U.S. American Bar Association-accredited law schools have yet to have a woman dean, including two T14s—Cornell Law School and the University of Michigan Law School. ... Law Schools in the Top ..read more
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2d ago
Natasha Sarin (Yale; Google Scholar) presents Broken Budgeting (with Safia Sayed (J.D. 2025, Yale)) at Georgetown today as part of its Tax Law and Public Finance Workshop hosted by Emily Satterthwaite and Dayanand Manoli: As peacetime deficits rose over the course of the last half century, policymakers searched for tools ..read more
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2d ago
ABA Legal Education Section Releases Employment Data For Graduating Law Class of 2023: Employment data for the graduating law class of 2023, as reported to the American Bar Association Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar by ABA-approved law schools accepting new J.D. students, is now publicly available ..read more
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2d ago
National Review, Columbia Law Faculty ‘Deeply Troubled’ by Disciplinary Action against Anti-Israel Protesters: More than 50 Columbia Law School faculty members in a letter on Sunday castigated the university’s administration over its decision to clear students violating university policy from the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” that sprung up on Wednesday morning ..read more
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2d ago
The new 2024-25 U.S. News Specialty Rankings include the rankings for 13 specialty programs at 196 law schools. Here are the Top 100 law schools, determined by giving equal weight to each of the 13 separate specialty rankings: Business/Corporate Law Clinical Law Constitutional Law Contracts/Commercial Law Criminal Law Dispute Resolution ..read more
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2d ago
Pittsburgh Tax Review Call for Papers: Combatting Poverty Through Federal Tax Policy According to the U.S. Census, in 2022 there were over 37 million people in the United States in poverty. Though, at one time, perhaps the tax code had little to do with relieving poverty, at least since 1975 ..read more