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Above the Law, Law School Dean Urges Students To Stop Making ‘Wildly Inappropriate’ Sexist Comments About Female Professor Above the Law, Students Allege Women Drugged At Off-Campus Law School Parties American Lawyer, Meet the Law Professor Who’s Giving Dershowitz Hell Lisa Bliss (Georgia State) & Don Peters (Florida), Delivering Effective…

Richard Dees (McDermott, Will & Emery, Chicago), Is Chief Counsel Resurrecting the Chapter 14 ‘Monster’?, 145 Tax Notes 1279 (Dec. 15, 2014) Claire Moore Dickerson (Tulane), Bringing Formal Business Laws to Cameroon’s Informal Sector: Lessons and Cautions from the Tax Law Example, 13 Wash. U. Global Stud. L. Rev. 265…

Albert Farr (J.D. 2015, Tulane), Comment, Taxation of Marine Shipping Income: A Critique of U.S. Tax Laws in the Energy Transport Industry, 39 Tul. Mar. L.J. 321 (2014) Jessica Ho (J.D. 2012, Virginia), Note, How to Train a Toothless Dragon: Finding Room for Improvement in China’s Transfer Pricing Regulations, 54…

UCLA and the Tax Policy Center host a conference today on International Tax Reform from 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. PST (webcast here): Panel #1: Political Economy of International Tax Reform Presenters: Alan Auerbach (UC-Berkeley), Jon Talisman (Capitol Tax Partners) Commentator: Jason Oh (UCLA) Panel #2: Inversions: Where Do We…

Press Release, Retired Professor Gives $1 Million to Emory Law: Emory Law Professor William J. Carney and his wife, Jane [left and right in photo, along with Dean Robert Schapiro and Sue Payne, Professor of Practice and Executive Director of the Center for Transactional Law and Practice], have created a…

IR-2015-13, Low Income Taxpayer Clinic Program Reports on Activities (Jan. 29, 2015): The Internal Revenue Service’s Low Income Taxpayer Clinic (LITC) Program Office has issued its annual program report, which describes how LITCs have assisted thousands of low income taxpayers nationwide with free or low-cost representation, education and advocacy services….

New Haven Register op-ed: Another Son Stopped for Being Black at Yale, by Stephen Carter (Yale): The columnist Charles M. Blow of the New York Times has sparked debate this week by his disclosure that his son, a student at Yale College, was stopped at gunpoint by a Yale police…

Judicial Watch, Obama Administration Refuses to Release Time Records of Key Attorney in IRS Scandal Investigation: Judicial Watch announced today that the Obama Department of Justice (DOJ) is going to extreme lengths to keep from the public the number of hours DOJ Attorney Barbara Bosserman expended on the investigation of…

Chronicle of Higher Education, College Endowments See Another Year of Growth: The improving economy contributed to a second strong year in a row for colleges’ endowment returns, according to an annual study released on Thursday. Colleges’ endowments returned an average of 15.5 percent in the 2014 fiscal year, up from…

The Daily Beast, Three Cheers for the Death Tax!, by Michael Tomasky: Of all the Obama proposals unveiled in the State of the Union address, the one that’s probably drawn the most right-wing fire is the one that would close an inheritance capital-gains tax loophole. … Undertaxing inherited wealth is…