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Andrew Blair-Stanek (Maryland), Intellectual Property Law Solutions to Tax Avoidance, 62 UCLA L. Rev. 2 (2015): Multinational corporations use intellectual property (IP) to avoid taxes on a massive scale, by transferring their IP offshore for artificially low prices. Economists estimate that this abuse costs the U.S. Treasury as much as…

Sonia Katyal (Fordham), Encouraging Engaged Scholarship: Perspectives from an Associate Dean for Research, 31 Touro L. Rev. ___ (2015): Today, there is little question that faculty scholarship is intimately related to the reputation of a law school, and also relatedly, to the law school rankings game. Central to this reality…

New York Times, A Quiet Revolution in Helping Lift the Burden of Student Debt: Has the student loan crisis already been solved? This might seem an absurd question. Student loan debt is at a record high of $1.1 trillion, and the average undergraduate who borrows to attend school graduates nearly…

The 15th Annual Workshop on Conducting Empirical Legal Scholarship, co-taught by Lee Epstein (Washington University) and Andrew D. Martin (Michigan), will run from June 15-17 at Washington University in St. Louis. The workshop is for law school faculty, lawyers, political science faculty, and graduate students interested in learning about empirical…

New York Times, Middle Class Shrinks Further as More Fall Out Instead of Climbing Up: The middle class that President Obama identified in his State of the Union speech last week as the foundation of the American economy has been shrinking for almost half a century. In the late 1960s,…

Last Thursday, Amazon launched KDP EDU for academics to self-publish books through the Kindle Direct Publishing program: Amazon’s new Kindle Textbook Creator Beta helps you convert PDFs of your textbooks, course notes, study guides and other educational content that includes complex visual information like charts, graphs and equations into Kindle…

Bloomberg, How Yahoo Might Sell Billions in Alibaba Stock and Pay No Taxes, by Jesse Drucker: Yahoo! on Tuesday is expected to reveal something most companies usually try to keep secret: how it plans to avoid a multibillion-dollar tax bill. The Web portal has spent more than a year figuring…

U.S. News & World Report, Data Show Which Top-Ranked Colleges Operate Most Efficiently: Ohio’s Miami University—Oxford took top honors as the most efficient school among National Universities and Michigan’s Hope College was most efficient among National Liberal Arts Colleges in an exclusive U.S. News analysis that compared spending and educational…

The Federal Bar Association Tax Section hosts its free Tax Practice & Procedure Monthly Roundtable today from 1:00-2:00 p.m. EST (dial-in number: 866-690-2070; Password: 3008455329): Auditing of Large Partnerships Monte Jackel, Jackel Tax Law The GAO recently issued a report on the audit of large partnerships. There was also a…

Ryan Whalen (Northwestern), The Law Prof Twitter Network: Following recent discussions about the importance of blogging/tweeting to contemporary academia (see: LSE via TaxProf), and Bridget Crawford’s Law Prof Twitter Census (version 3.0) over at TheFacultyLounge, I thought I’d do some number crunching and network building. I wrote a short script…