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Walker Presents Are Tax and Accounting Rules Discriminating Against Discounted Employee Stock Options Justified? Today at Toronto

Posted on January 21, 2009
David I. Walker (Boston University) presents Are Tax and Accounting Rules Discriminating Against Discounted Employee Stock Options Justified? at the University of Toronto today as part of the James Hausman Tax Law and Policy Workshop Series. Here is the abstract:...

WSJ: Best Stimulus Is Capital Gains Tax Moratorium on New Investments

Posted on January 21, 2009
Wall Street Journal op-ed: Let's Stimulate Private Risk Taking; Tax Cuts Are the Way to Nudge Capital Toward Productive Uses, by Alberto Alesina (Harvard University, Department of Economics) & Luigi Zingales (University of Chicago, Booth School of Business): [H]ow do...

Gamage Presents Taxation and Incentives in the Business Enterprise Today in Tokyo

Posted on January 21, 2009
David Gamage (UC-Berkeley) presents Taxation and Incentives in the Business Enterprise at the Research Institute of Economy, Trade, and Industry in Tokyo, Japan. Here is the abstract: The Japanese Government?s Research Institute of Economy, Trade, and Industry has sponsored the...

Memorial Service for Jim Colliton

Posted on January 21, 2009
I previously blogged the sad news of the death of James Colliton, age 64, a tax professor at DePaul for over thirty years. Jim died Saturday after a two year battle with cancer. His moving obituary appears in today's Chicago...

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2008 Law Prof Blog Traffic Rankings

Posted on January 21, 2009
Below are the updated quarterly traffic rankings (visitors and page views) of the Top 35 blogs edited by law professors with publicly available SiteMeters for the most recent 12-month period (January 1, 2008 - December 31, 2008) [click on chart...

Borden: Open Tenancies in Common

Posted on January 21, 2009
Bradley T. Borden (Washburn) has posted Open Tenancies in Common, 38 Seton Hall L. Rev. ___ (2009), on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Tax law (section 1031 in particular) has spawned a new investment vehicle-open tenancies in common. Tax law...

Twenty Things Lawyers Need to Know

Posted on January 21, 2009
Lawyers USA has published Twenty Things Lawyers Need to Know, including A New Frontier in Legal Research: The Specialized Legal Blog, by Correy E. Stephenson: The Internet has made legal research simpler, faster and mobile, and lawyers are increasingly turning...

ABA Hosts Webcast Today on Estate Planning During Economic Turmoil

Posted on January 21, 2009
The ABA Section of Real Property, Trust and Estate Law hosts a webcast today on Estate and Related Planning During Economic Turmoil (at 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. EST): Now is the time to rethink your clients? needs and plans...

Geithner Blames Turbo Tax For His Tax Troubles

Posted on January 21, 2009
Treasury Secretary nominee Timothy Geithner implied at his confirmation hearing that the mistakes in his tax returns were caused by his use of the TurboTax software program. Of course, as any tax professional know, TurboTax (and any of the other...

Tax Teachers of the Year

Posted on January 20, 2009
The AALS has announced that the following Tax Profs have been selected as the Teacher of the Year for 2007-08 at their respective law schools: Samuel A. Donaldson (University of Washington) Heather M. Field (UC-Hastings) William H. Lyons (Nebraska) Michael...

Chronicle: "Customizable" J.D. Degrees

Posted on January 20, 2009
Three Chronicle of Higher Education articles by Peter Schmidt on "customizable" law school degrees, with excerpts below the fold: Law Schools Customize Degrees to Students' Taste Boldly Go Where No Law Student Has Gone Before New Niches Mean More Power...

Charles Rangel and the Harlem Tax Revolt of '09

Posted on January 20, 2009
Charles Rangel and the Harlem Tax Revolt of '09 (via YouTube) (Hat Tip: InstaPundit):

Buckles: Should Yale Lose its Tax Exemption Because of its Opposition to the Solomon Amendment?

Posted on January 20, 2009
Johnny Rex Buckles (Houston) has posted Do Law Schools Forfeit Federal Income Tax Exemption When They Deny Military Recruiters Full Access to Career Services Programs? The Hypothetical Case of Yale University v. Commissioner, 41 Ariz. St. L.J. ___ (2009), on...

Tax Policy Advice for President Obama

Posted on January 20, 2009
Sixteen Tax Profs offer tax policy advice to President Barack Obama below the fold: Beau Baez (Charlotte) Bryan Camp (Texas Tech) Paul Caron (Cincinnati) Joseph Dodge (Florida State) Bridget Crawford (Pace) Calvin Johnson (Texas) Benjamin Leff (Harvard) Francine Lipman (Chapman)...

Is the Law Professor Gravy Train Over?

Posted on January 20, 2009
New York Times (Jan. 18, 2009): The Last Professor, by Stanley Fish: I have argued that higher education, properly understood, is distinguished by the absence of a direct and designed relationship between its activities and measurable effects in the world...

Leff Joins Tax Faculty at American

Posted on January 20, 2009
Benjamin M. Leff, currently a visiting assistant professor at Harvard, has accepted an entry-level tenure-track tax position at American, replacing Dennis Ventry who has joined the tax faculty at UC-Davis. From the Harvard Tax Faculty web page: Benjamin M...

Benshalom: The Quest to Tax Financial Income in a Global Economy

Posted on January 20, 2009
Ilan Benshalom (Northwestern) has published The Quest to Tax Financial Income in a Global Economy: Emerging to an Allocation Phase, 28 Va. Tax Rev. 165 (2008). Here is the abstract: The taxation of the income derived from financial assets and...

Martin Luther King, Jr. and Tax

Posted on January 19, 2009
In honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day: reports on how some southern officials tried to use state tax laws to stop King and the nascent civil rights movement: "In Alabama, ... Governor John Patterson in early 1960 directed state...

NY Times: Are Judges Overpaid?

Posted on January 19, 2009
New York Times: How Much Should Judges Make?, by Adam Liptak: Federal judges say they are underpaid. The problem, in Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.?s words, ?has now reached the level of a constitutional crisis.? It takes a pretty...

Clickers a Hit at MIT as Part of "Technology Enhanced Active Learning" Program

Posted on January 19, 2009
New York Times: At M.I.T., Large Lectures Are Going the Way of the Blackboard, by Sara Rimer: The physics department has replaced the traditional large introductory lecture with smaller classes that emphasize hands-on, interactive, collaborative learning...

Death of Jim Colliton

Posted on January 19, 2009
I am sorry to bring you ews of the death of James Colliton, a tax professor at DePaul for over thirty years. Jim died Saturday after a two year battle with cancer. From his DePaul faculty page: Professor Colliton worked...

19 States to Sign on for Uniform Bar Exam?

Posted on January 19, 2009
National Law Journal: Uniform Bar Exam a Reality? A Total of 19 States Positioned to Implement UBE, by Leigh Jones: The possibility of a uniform bar exam that would help standardize attorney licensing state-to-state is inching closer to becoming a...

University of Luxembourg Seeks to Hire Tax Prof

Posted on January 19, 2009
The University of Luxembourg is has an opening in its Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance, for one Professor/Associate- Professor in Tax Law: The successful candidate will be expected to have extensive research and teaching experience in European taw law...

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Posted on January 19, 2009
Saturday: U.S. News on Track for April Release of New Law School Rankings WSJ: The Best Economic Stimulus: A Corporate Tax Rate of Zero California to Delay Tax Refunds Learning With "Clickers" Gets Better After Peer Discussions Sunday: Top 5...

Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads

Posted on January 18, 2009
There is quite a bit of movement in this week's list of the Top 5 Recent Tax Paper Downloads, with a new #1 paper and new papers debuting on the list at #4 and #5: 1. [257 Downloads] The Virtual...

GAO: 83% of Largest U.S. Companies Use Offshore Tax Havens

Posted on January 18, 2009
The Government Accountability Office on Friday released a study reporting that 83 of the 100 largest publicly-traded corporations and 63 of the 100 largest federal contractors maintain offshore subsidiaries in 50 tax havens. Many recipients of tens of billions in...

Leiberman Proposes Changes to Market Discount Rules and NMTC

Posted on January 18, 2009
Senator Joe Lieberman has written letters to Senate Finance Committee Chair Max Baucus and Ranking Member Charles Grassley, and to incoming Director of National Economic Council Lawrence Summers, requesting that two tax provisions be added to the economic stimulus bill:...

U.S. News on Track for April Release of New Law School Rankings

Posted on January 17, 2009
Robert Morse, Director of Data Research at U.S. News & World Report, announced on his blog yesterday that the U.S. News law school rankings are on track for the annual April publication: The law school statistical and peer assessment data...

WSJ: The Best Economic Stimulus: A Corporate Tax Rate of Zero

Posted on January 17, 2009
Wall Street Journal op-ed: Leave the New Deal in the History Books; Cut Corporate Taxes to Zero and Create Real Jobs, by Mark Levey: By 1939 Roosevelt's own Treasury secretary, Henry Morgenthau, had realized that the New Deal economic policies...

Learning With "Clickers" Gets Better After Peer Discussions

Posted on January 17, 2009
In this month's Science: Why Peer Discussion Improves Student Performance on In-Class Concept Questions: When students answer an in-class conceptual question individually using clickers, discuss it with their neighbors, and then revote on the same question, the percentage of correct...

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