http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/ A Member of the Law Professor Blogs Network en-US Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:30:00 -0500 http://www.typepad.com/ http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2009/11/gender-diversity-.html http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2009/11/gender-diversity-.html Following up on Wednesday's post, Foundation Press Publishes 30th Law Stories Book, in which I expressed my pride in serving as series editor and helping to recruit 50 incredibly talented faculty to edit books in the series: Tax Prof Bridget J. Crawford (Pace) highlights another point of pride in this... Book Club Legal Education Paul Caron Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:05:00 -0500 http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2009/11/brian-galle-wins.html http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2009/11/brian-galle-wins.html Brian D. Galle (Florida State) received honorable mention in the 2010 AALS Scholarly Paper Competition for his paper, Foundation or Empire? The Role of Charity in a Federal System, 88 Tex. L. Rev. ___ (2010). Brian will present the paper at the AALS Annual Meeting on Friday, January 8, at... Legal Education Tax Tax Profs Paul Caron Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:02:00 -0500 http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2009/11/more-super-lawyer.html http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2009/11/more-super-lawyer.html Following up on my prior post, Law School Rankings by 'Super Lawyers', which blogged the Top 50 law schools by the number of "Super Lawyers" that are graduates of each school, as well as Super Lawyer ranking of the 50 largest law schools and the 50 smallest law schools. Here... Law School Rankings Legal Education Paul Caron Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:44:04 -0500 http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2009/11/americas-first-.html http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2009/11/americas-first-.html Last month, I asked Is UC-Hastings America's Most Expensive Law School? Its $50,310 nonresident tuition for 2010-11 was higher than that at the top law schools (which ranged from $43,900 to $50,140). Proposed tuition increases at California's four public law schools would blow the top off and create America's first... Law School Rankings Legal Education Paul Caron Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:41:54 -0500 http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2009/11/allison-christians.html http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2009/11/allison-christians.html Tax Prof Allison Christians has been named Teacher of the Year at Wisconsin. From the press release: Allison Christians was chosen Teacher of the Year from among all eligible tenure-track professors at the Law School by a poll of the three most recent classes (excluding the graduating class). Christians joined... Legal Education Tax Tax Profs Teaching Paul Caron Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:05:00 -0500 http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2009/11/foundation-press-2.html http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2009/11/foundation-press-2.html Foundation Press's Law Stories Series has passed an impressive milestone: there are now thirty books in the series: Administrative Law Stories (2006), edited by Peter L. Strauss (Columbia) Antitrust Stories (2007), edited by Eleanor M. Fox (NYU) & Daniel A. Crane (Cardozo) Bankruptcy Law Stories (2007), edited by Robert Rasmussen... Book Club Legal Education Scholarship Paul Caron Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:48:00 -0500 http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2009/11/law-school-.html http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2009/11/law-school-.html Following up on my prior post, Which Law Schools Produce the Most "Super Lawyers"? : the magazine has aggregated its rankings of law schools producing the most "Super Lawyers" in each state into an overall law school ranking which measures the total number of "Super Lawyers" that are graduates of... Law School Rankings Legal Education Paul Caron Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:53:12 -0500 http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2009/11/karen-brown.html http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2009/11/karen-brown.html Tax Prof Karen Brown (George Washington) is one of four dean finalists at Seattle: The Dean Search Committee at Seattle University School of Law is delighted to announce four finalists for the deanship. The committee was impressed by their outstanding records of academic achievement, administrative experience, and their enthusiastic embrace... Legal Education Tax Prof Moves Paul Caron Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:00:00 -0500 http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2009/11/lsat-testtakes.html http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2009/11/lsat-testtakes.html Following up on last week's posts, Law School Is a Bad Investment and "Going to Law School Is Like Starting to Smoke": a new blog notes Big Law, We Have a Problem: The numbers are out, and they are huge. On September 26th, more students took the LSAT than have... Legal Education Paul Caron Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:10:00 -0500 http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2009/11/google-scholar.html http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2009/11/google-scholar.html Google Scholar has now added "legal opinions and journals" to its search engine: As many of us recall from our civics lessons in school, the United States is a common law country. That means when judges issue opinions in legal cases, they often establish precedents that will guide the rulings... Legal Education News Paul Caron Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:10:00 -0500 http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2009/11/usc-seeks-.html http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2009/11/usc-seeks-.html The recently-launched Graduate Tax Program at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law is looking to hire an Academic Director: USC Gould School of Law seeks an academic director for new Tax LL.M. program. Ideal candidate will have demonstrated administrative skills transferable to this position, is a recognized... Legal Education Tax Tax Prof Jobs Paul Caron Mon, 16 Nov 2009 06:00:00 -0500 http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2009/11/taxprof-blog-2.html http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2009/11/taxprof-blog-2.html Saturday: Afield Presents Reducing the Tax Gap Through Church-Government Partnerships Today at Stetson CTJ: Judging Tax Expenditures Centrist Senators Consider 10-Year Estate Tax Phase-Down to $5m Exemption & 35% Rate NTA Annual Tax Conference Sunday: Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads America's Best College Teacher CTJ: State-by-State Impact of House Health... Legal Education Tax Weekend Roundup Paul Caron Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:33:00 -0500 http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2009/11/americas-best.html http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2009/11/americas-best.html Wall Street Journal, America's Top College Professor: Elliott West doesn't seem like the coolest guy on campus. With his tweed coat and thinning hair, he appears to be the stereotype of a studious professor, only truly at home among library stacks or in a dusty archive. But Prof. West, who... Legal Education Tax Paul Caron Sun, 15 Nov 2009 12:00:00 -0500 http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2009/11/going-to.html http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2009/11/going-to.html Following up on Tuesday's post, Death of 'Big Law School'?, in which Erik Gerding (New Mexico) argues that law schools will face "massive economic pressure" with the demise of the BigLaw business model: Above the Law: "At this point, going to law school is like starting to smoke. It’s expensive,... Legal Education Paul Caron Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:57:00 -0500 http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2009/11/written-submissions-are-due.html http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2009/11/written-submissions-are-due.html Today is the due date for written submissions in the 9th Annual Law Student Tax Challenge sponsored by the ABA Section of Taxation Young Lawyers Forum: An alternative to traditional moot court competitions, the Law Student Tax Challenge asks two-person teams of students to solve a cutting-edge and complex business... ABA Tax Section Legal Education Tax Teaching Paul Caron Fri, 13 Nov 2009 03:38:00 -0500 http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2009/11/henderson-.html http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2009/11/henderson-.html William D. Henderson (Indiana-Bloomington), Outcome Measures and Regulatory Failure in Legal Education (Legal Profession Blog): Over the last few years, the topic of outcome (or output) measures has been a recurring theme at various association meetings and conferences surrounding legal education. Some of this discussion is motivated by Department of... Legal Education Paul Caron Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:09:04 -0500 http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2009/11/death-of-.html http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2009/11/death-of-.html I previously blogged about my wonderful undergraduate years at Georgetown, where one man sparked my interest in law and teaching that became my lifelong calling: Dr. Walter I. Giles. I took five of Dr. Giles' legendary courses and seminars on constitutional law, and was honored to spend my senior year... Legal Education Obituaries Tax Paul Caron Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:20:00 -0500 http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2009/11/schlunk-law-school-is-a-bad-investment.html http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2009/11/schlunk-law-school-is-a-bad-investment.html Tax Prof Herwig J. Schlunk (Vanderbilt) has posted Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be...Lawyers on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This essay treats a legal education as an investment, and asks the question of whether, based on known costs and expected benefits, such investment should be undertaken.... Legal Education Scholarship Tax Paul Caron Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:39:00 -0500 http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2009/11/foundation-press.html http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2009/11/foundation-press.html Foundation Press has published Federal Courts Stories, by Vicki C. Jackson (Georgetown) & Judith Resnik (Yale): Touching on history, economics, politics, and law, these stories steal behind the texts of the legal opinions into the larger-than-life personalities and struggles of their antagonists and protagonists. This title is an invaluable supplement... Book Club Legal Education Scholarship Paul Caron Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:00:00 -0500 http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2009/11/the-tenure-.html http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2009/11/the-tenure-.html Inside Higher Ed, 30-Minute Chat to Tenure: Lloyd A. Jacobs announced last week that in his role as president of the University of Toledo, he plans to interview every faculty member who comes up for tenure before making a recommendation to the board on whether to approve the bid. While... Legal Education Paul Caron Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:30:00 -0500 http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2009/11/death-of-1.html http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2009/11/death-of-1.html Erik F. Gerding (New Mexico) has an interesting post on Conglomerate, Death of "Big Law School"?: [The decline of Big Law firms] would likely mean the end of the law school boom -- with its expanding law faculties and the bumper crop of new law schools. Like it or not,... Legal Education Paul Caron Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:47:43 -0500 http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2009/11/off-to-the-big-dance.html http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2009/11/off-to-the-big-dance.html For those of you who asked (or might be interested) following my Saturday post on my freshman son's college soccer team: for the first time in school history, the team qualified for the NCAA Division III National Tournament following a second thrilling conference tournament victory in a penalty kick shootout... Legal Education Miscellaneous Tax Paul Caron Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:29:39 -0500 http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2009/11/more-fellowships.html http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2009/11/more-fellowships.html Following up on my August post, Fellowships for Aspiring Law Professors (2009-10 Edition): Jonathan Gingerich (J.D. 2010, Harvard) of the Harvard Legal Theory Forum has compiled this very helpful spreadsheet with detailed information (including application deadlines, qualifications, salaries, and duration) on 69 teaching and research fellowships. Legal Education Tax Prof Jobs Paul Caron Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:00:00 -0500 http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2009/11/taxprof-blog-1.html http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2009/11/taxprof-blog-1.html Saturday: President Obama Signs Worker, Homeownership, and Business Act WSJ: 27 Million Reasons to Leave New York The Good and the Bad in Sports Pauly: Limiting the Tax Exclusion for Employment Based Health Insurance Ayers: The Undertraining of Lawyers and its Effect on the Advancement of Women and Minorities Sunday:... Legal Education Tax Weekend Roundup Paul Caron Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:13:00 -0500 http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2009/11/texas-.html http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2009/11/texas-.html Here are the results of the July 2009 Texas Bar Exam for first-time test-takers by law school, along with each school's U.S. News ranking: Texas Tech: 94.52% (Tier 3) Baylor: 94.12% (#65) Texas-Wesleyan: 93.29% (Tier 4) Texas: 92.36% (#15) Houston: 91.63% (#59) SMU: 90.99% (#49) South Texas: 89.66% (Tier 4)... Law School Rankings Legal Education Paul Caron Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:00:00 -0500 http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2009/11/us-news-.html http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2009/11/us-news-.html Robert Morse, Director of Data Research at U.S. News & World Report, follows up on my prior post, GAO: U.S. News Rankings, Not Accreditation, Key Driver of Law School Tuition, in Who's at Fault for the High Cost of Law School?: There are weaknesses in the report's methodology. The GAO... Law School Rankings Legal Education Paul Caron Sun, 08 Nov 2009 07:00:00 -0500 http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2009/11/the-good.html http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2009/11/the-good.html I am at my college-freshman son's conference soccer tournament this weekend, with an NCAA Division III Tournament bid on the line for the winning team. It was been a long journey, from select and high school soccer through his first college game and this remarkable season. Their pulsating win in... About This Blog Legal Education Miscellaneous Tax Paul Caron Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:21:35 -0500 http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2009/11/ayers-the.html http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2009/11/ayers-the.html Irene Segal Ayers (NYU) has published The Undertraining of Lawyers and its Effect on the Advancement of Women and Minorities in the Legal Profession, 1 Duke F. for L. & Soc. Change 71 (2009). Here is the abstract: The undertraining of law students documented in a century’s worth of critiques... Legal Education Scholarship Paul Caron Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:00:00 -0500