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Spring 2015 Law Review Article Submission Guide
Nancy Levit (UMKC) & Allen Rostron (UMKC) have updated their incredibly useful document, which contains two charts for the Spring 2015 submission season covering 204 law reviews. The first chart (pp. 1-52) contains information gathered from the journals’ websites on: Methods for submitting an article (such as by e-mail, ExpressO,…
Reynolds: Obama’s Proposed Tax Increases Target the Middle Class
USA Today op-ed: Middle-class Savings Like Blood in the Water, by Glenn Reynolds (Tennessee): Bank robber Willie Sutton is said to have explained his career this way: “That’s where the money is.” Whether Sutton ever really said that, it’s an aphorism that, according to Bloomberg’s Megan McArdle, explains President Obama’s…
The IRS Scandal, Day 627
Commentary, Contentions Obama Administration Again Proves It Cannot Be Trusted with Your Data: Yesterday’s important ObamaCare revelation was the latest in a series of Obama-era developments in which big-government projects prove their conservative critics correct. This particular aspect of the administrative state is, however, worse than incompetence. It’s yet another…
TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup
Saturday: It Is Time to End Tenure at Age 70 Maine Governor Proposes Taxing Large Charities Houston Hosts Moot Court National Championship This Weekend The IRS Scandal, Day 625 Sunday: CBS News: Are Law School Admission Standards Slipping? Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads Bainbridge: Solve the Law School Crisis by…
CBS News: Are Law School Admission Standards Slipping?
CBS News, Are Law School Admission Standards Slipping?: Good news for aspiring lawyers: It’s getting easier to get into law school, and the legal job market is showing some signs of improvement. The bad news: Many experts worry that unqualified entrants will have little chance to pass the bar exam…
Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads
There is a bit of movement in this week’s list of the Top 5 Recent Tax Paper Downloads, with a new #1 paper and a new paper debuting on the list at #5: [230 Downloads] The Rise and Fall of the Consumption Tax: A Historical Perspective, by Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan)…
Bainbridge: Solve the Law School Crisis by Unleashing the Free Market
Stephen Bainbridge (UCLA), Want to Solve the Law School Scam? Expose Law Schools to a Market for Control: If you think of law schools as companies selling a product, our customer base has skrunk dramatically and continues to shrink: In a market system, the result would be business failures and…
The IRS Scandal, Day 626
Commentary, Contentions Obama Administration Again Proves It Cannot Be Trusted with Your Data: Yesterday’s important ObamaCare revelation was the latest in a series of Obama-era developments in which big-government projects prove their conservative critics correct. This particular aspect of the administrative state is, however, worse than incompetence. It’s yet another…
It Is Time to End Tenure at Age 70
Dan Subotnik (Touro), Untenuring Tenure: A specter haunting the academy today is of an intellectually wizened white male professoriate refusing to step aside for au courant, energetic, ambitious, and of course diverse younger faculty. Part of a larger concern with tenure itself, the fear in question is that tenured old-timers,…
Maine Governor Proposes Taxing Large Charities
Wall Street Journal, Maine Gov. LePage Wants to Tax Big Nonprofits: A sweeping proposal to cut taxes for Maine families and businesses could upend one of the most widely accepted practices in the country: the property-tax exemption for nonprofit organizations. A recent budget plan by Republican Gov. Paul LePage calling…