http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/ A Member of the Law Professor Blogs Network en-US Sun, 27 May 2012 12:00:00 -0400 http://www.typepad.com/ http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2012/05/top-5-2.html http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2012/05/top-5-2.html This week's list of the Top 5 Recent Tax Paper Downloads is the same as last week's list. The #1 paper is now #29 in all-time downloads among 8347 tax papers: 1. [1808 Downloads] There’s No There There: Low Tax Rates and Economic Growth, by Filip Spagnoli (National Bank of... Legal Education Tax Top 5 Downloads Paul Caron Sun, 27 May 2012 08:47:32 -0400 http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2012/05/rapoport-.html http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2012/05/rapoport-.html Nancy B. Rapoport (UNLV), Changing the Modal Law School: Rethinking U.S. Legal Education in (Most) Schools, 116 Penn St. L. Rev. 1119 (2012): This essay argues that discussions of educational reform in U.S. law schools have suffered from a fundamental misconception: that the education provided in all of the ABA-accredited... Legal Education Paul Caron Fri, 25 May 2012 16:05:24 -0400 http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2012/05/cleveland-marshall.html http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2012/05/cleveland-marshall.html The Careerist reports that Cleveland-Marshall College of Law Dean (and Tax Prof) Craig Boise has announced that the school is cutting its incoming 1L class by an 30% (last year's class size was 168 (131 full-time, 27 part-time), with LSAT/GPA medians of 154/3.28). George Washington and UC-Hastings previously announced reductions... Legal Education Paul Caron Fri, 25 May 2012 08:11:50 -0400 http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2012/05/deborah-jones-merritt-1.html http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2012/05/deborah-jones-merritt-1.html Deborah Jones Merritt (Ohio State), Client Centered Law Schools: [L]aw schools should educate students to provide the qualities that clients seek. How would law schools do that? Many people asking this question point to the medical school model, suggesting that law schools should adopt one (or two) years of clinical... About This Blog Legal Education Paul Caron Thu, 24 May 2012 15:12:09 -0400 http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2012/05/henderson-the.html http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2012/05/henderson-the.html The Legal Whiteboard: What is the Answer to High Student Debt?, by WIlliam D. Henderson (Indiana): This question is coming up a lot these days, but the nation's best minds (New York Times, New Yorker, Washington Post) are swinging and missing. ... My own belief is that educational quality is... Legal Education Paul Caron Thu, 24 May 2012 14:35:11 -0400 http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2012/05/2009-law-grad.html http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2012/05/2009-law-grad.html Business Insider, Here's What Happened When This Guy Tried to Pay A $114,000 Student Loan in Cash: Last week, a Reddit user posted a photo of a $114,000 student loan bill—paid in cash—that elicited thousands of comments and dozens more when we posted it here. Since then, the anonymous alum... Legal Education Paul Caron Thu, 24 May 2012 12:27:00 -0400 http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2012/05/bell-us-news-law-school-rankings.html http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2012/05/bell-us-news-law-school-rankings.html Tom Bell (Chapman), U.S. News & World Report Improves Transparency of Law School Rankings: Huzzah for U.S. News and World Report! The most recent edition of its law school rankings includes the median LSAT and GPA of each school’s entering class. [Unfortunately, the rankings table still sorts by 25th-75th percentiles;... Law School Rankings Legal Education Paul Caron Wed, 23 May 2012 16:00:00 -0400 http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2012/05/deborah-jones-merritt-.html http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2012/05/deborah-jones-merritt-.html Deborah Jones Merritt (Ohio State), Mid Game: Several commenters have asked me whether faculty are discussing the issues raised in this blog and, if so, what any of us see as the endgame. ... [H]ere are four predictions about what might happen by the end of the game's first quarter... Legal Education Paul Caron Wed, 23 May 2012 14:59:13 -0400 http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2012/05/rutgers-camden.html http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2012/05/rutgers-camden.html Following up on Monday's post, LST Calls for Resignation of Rutgers Dean and ABA Investigation of Improper Recruiting of Law Students: ABA Journal, Rutgers at Camden Law Dean Defends Marketing Pitch Touting Salaries of $130K for ‘Many Top Students’: A marketing pitch sent to prospective students by Rutgers University School... Legal Education Paul Caron Wed, 23 May 2012 13:00:00 -0400 http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2012/05/massachusetts-bars-.html http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2012/05/massachusetts-bars-.html Massachusetts Bar Association Task Force on Law, the Economy and Underemployment, Beginning the Conversation (May 17, 2012): The MBA Task Force on Law, the Economy and Underemployment began its work in November of 2011 with a mission to study factors contributing to the problem of underemployment among recent law school... Legal Education Paul Caron Wed, 23 May 2012 04:22:00 -0400 http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2012/05/kalsem-19th-century.html http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2012/05/kalsem-19th-century.html My Cincinnati colleague Kristin Kalsem has published In Contempt: Nineteenth-Century Women, Law, and Literature (Ohio State University Press, 2012): In Contempt: Nineteenth-Century Women, Law, and Literature, by Kristin Kalsem, explores the legal advocacy performed by nineteenth-century women writers in publications of nonfiction and fiction, as well as in real-life courtrooms... Book Club Legal Education Scholarship Paul Caron Wed, 23 May 2012 00:52:00 -0400 http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2012/05/deborah-jones-merritt.html http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2012/05/deborah-jones-merritt.html Deborah Jones Merritt (Ohio State), Price Sensitivity: "Our consumers are not very price sensitive." I've heard that sentiment repeatedly during the last year, as colleagues across the nation respond to criticisms of law school tuition. ... I wonder, in fact, how much of the tuition collected by law schools represents... Legal Education Paul Caron Tue, 22 May 2012 16:17:00 -0400 http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2012/05/garon.html http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2012/05/garon.html Jon Garon (NKU Chase College of Law), Legal Education in Disruption: The Headwinds and Tailwinds of Technology: Part one of the article tracks the changes that automation is bringing to the legal profession from self-help online tools to predictive document drafting and other innovations. It analyzes the potential of the... Legal Education Paul Caron Tue, 22 May 2012 15:00:00 -0400 http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2012/05/former-university-of-georgia-prof.html http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2012/05/former-university-of-georgia-prof.html Legal Education Paul Caron Tue, 22 May 2012 00:24:00 -0400 http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2012/05/how-much.html http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2012/05/how-much.html Check out this online tool to calculate your worth to Facebook: at today's market price, I am supposedly worth $1,537 to Facebook ($1,876 if I start playing Zynga games). As the saying goes, If you're not paying for something, then you're not the customer—you're the product being sold. See also... Legal Education Tax Paul Caron Mon, 21 May 2012 12:51:10 -0400 http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2012/05/lst-calls.html http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2012/05/lst-calls.html LST Calls for Dean’s Resignation and ABA Investigation: Last week we became aware of an ongoing recruiting campaign by Rutgers – Camden School of Law that targets students who were not considering law school. As a part of this campaign, Camille Andrews, Associate Dean of Enrollment, sent students an email... Legal Education Paul Caron Mon, 21 May 2012 05:47:00 -0400 http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2012/05/taxprof-1.html http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2012/05/taxprof-1.html Saturday: Estate & Gift Tax Savings From Facebook Co-Founder's Renunciation of U.S. Citizenship Dwarf Income Tax Savings 64% of Recent Law Grads Do Not Work as Lawyers Tax Exceptionalism and Tax Reform The Tax Treatment of Carried Interest Sunday: Should You Renounce Your U.S. Citizenship Like Facebook Co-Founder Eduardo Saverin?... Legal Education Tax Weekend Roundup Paul Caron Mon, 21 May 2012 02:52:00 -0400 http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2012/05/64-of-law-grads.html http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2012/05/64-of-law-grads.html The Legal Whiteboard: Graduates Shun Legal Profession, by William Henderson (Indiana): That's the headline of a story in the Sunday edition of The Age, one of Australia's leading daily newspapers. Here is the nut: Almost two-thirds of Australia's law graduates are not working as lawyers four months after they have... Legal Education Paul Caron Sat, 19 May 2012 13:44:44 -0400 http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2012/05/i.html http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2012/05/i.html Following up on my prior post: National Law Journal, Indiana Tech Breaks Ground on New Law School: Indiana Tech is one step closer to opening its new law school. The Fort Wayne, Ind., university planned to break ground on May 18 on the $15 million, 70,000-square-foot building that will house... Legal Education Paul Caron Fri, 18 May 2012 14:23:16 -0400 http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2012/05/farewell.html http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2012/05/farewell.html I am heading back to Cincinnati today after spending the spring semester at Pepperdine University School of Law. My wife and I (and dog) had a wonderful time in Malibu and are grateful to Dean Deanell Tacha and the Pepperdine faculty, staff, and students for making our stay so enjoyable.... Legal Education Tax Paul Caron Fri, 18 May 2012 06:30:00 -0400 http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2012/05/2012-law.html http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2012/05/2012-law.html Akron: Solomon Oliver (Chief Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio) Albany: Victoria Graffeo (Judge, New York Court of Appeals) American: Valerie Jarrett (Senior Advisor to President Barack Obama) Appalachian: Beverly Perdue (Governor, North Carolina) Arizona State: Sandra Day O'Connor (Retired Justice, U.S. Supreme Court) Arkansas-Fayetteville: Jeffrey... Legal Education Paul Caron Thu, 17 May 2012 07:00:00 -0400 http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2012/05/columbia-law-school.html http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2012/05/columbia-law-school.html Columbia Dean (and Tax Prof) David Schizer sent this email to students: Congratulations on finishing your exams. I wanted to write to you about an issue that is important to all of us: the timely submission of grades. I know that not having timely grades can complicate job searches and... Legal Education Paul Caron Wed, 16 May 2012 15:30:00 -0400 http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2012/05/campos-the.html http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2012/05/campos-the.html Salon: Debt: Not Just for Undergrads, by Paul F. Campos (Colorado): Approximately half of the 45,000 people who will graduate this year from ABA-accredited law schools will never find jobs as lawyers. (The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that over the next decade 21,000 new jobs for lawyers will become... Legal Education Paul Caron Wed, 16 May 2012 13:30:00 -0400 http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2012/05/ssr.html http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2012/05/ssr.html SSRN has updated its monthly rankings of 750 American and international law school faculties and 3,000 law professors by (among other things) the number of paper downloads from the SSRN database. Here is the new list (through May 1, 2012) of the Top 25 U.S. Tax Professors in two of... Legal Education Scholarship Tax Tax Prof Rankings Paul Caron Wed, 16 May 2012 07:00:00 -0400 http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2012/05/where-the.html http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2012/05/where-the.html U.S. News & World Report, Where the Fortune 500 CEOs Went to School: The 500 executives collectively earned about 465 college degrees, which means about 35 executives didn't graduate from college. Both Ralph Lauren and Sheldon Adelson (Las Vegas Sands Corp.) are among the CEOs who dropped out of college.... Legal Education Paul Caron Tue, 15 May 2012 16:56:46 -0400 http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2012/05/george-washington.html http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2012/05/george-washington.html National Law Journal, George Washington Joins Ranks of Law Schools That Are Scaling Back: George Washington University Law School is the latest to intentionally reduce enrollment in the face of declining law school applications. Law Dean Paul Schiff Berman said the school does not plan to cut any specific percentage... Legal Education Paul Caron Tue, 15 May 2012 13:27:00 -0400 http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2012/05/bill-henderson-.html http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2012/05/bill-henderson-.html On The Legal Whiteboard: a review by Bill Henderson (Indiana) of the new book by Brian Z. Tamanaha (Washington U.), Failing Law Schools (University of Chicago Press, 2012): Many legal academics are going to dismiss Brian Tamanaha's book, Failing Law Schools, without ever reading a page. A larger number may... Book Club Legal Education Paul Caron Tue, 15 May 2012 07:00:00 -0400 http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2012/05/annual.html http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2012/05/annual.html If your summer is not already fully scheduled, I encourage you to consider attending the 22d Annual Conference for Law School Computing in San Diego ('"America's Finest City") on Thursday, June 21 through Saturday, June 23. The theme of this year's conference is "Some Assembly Required": We are constructing our... Conferences Legal Education Paul Caron Tue, 15 May 2012 00:18:00 -0400 http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2012/05/henderson-attention.html http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2012/05/henderson-attention.html The Legal Whiteboard: Lots of Jobs for Law Graduates -- Just Not Grads in the U.S., by WIlliam D. Henderson (Indiana): This story is fresh off the newswire: "Law firms are no more the preferred destination for fresh law graduates looking for jobs. With outsourcing catching up even in this... Legal Education Paul Caron Mon, 14 May 2012 06:15:00 -0400 http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2012/05/taxprof-blog.html http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2012/05/taxprof-blog.html Saturday: Will President Obama's Views on Tax Reform Also 'Evolve'? Will Facebook Co-Founder's Renunciation of U.S. Citizenship Increase His U.S. Tax Bill? ABA Tax Section May Meeting Americans Like the Rich, and the Rich Benefit America Sunday: Mother's Day Seto, Kleinbard Explain Tax Consequences of Facebook Co-Founder's Renunciation of U.S.... Legal Education Tax Weekend Roundup Paul Caron Mon, 14 May 2012 00:51:00 -0400 http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2012/05/mothers.html http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2012/05/mothers.html Although I lost my mother 20 years ago, I think of her every day and was particularly moved by these two mother's day remembrances: New York Times: The Last Mother’s Day, by Timothy Egan: When the last of your parents dies, as Christopher Buckley wrote in his memoir, Losing Mum... Legal Education Tax Paul Caron Sun, 13 May 2012 14:00:00 -0400