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Blanchard Presents The Tax Significance of Legal Personality at NYU

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Kimberly Blanchard (Weil, Gotshal & Manges, New York) presented The Tax Significance of Legal Personality: A U.S. View at NYU yesterday as part of its Tax Policy Colloquium Series hosted by Daniel Shaviro and Alan Viard: Whereas the fiction of legal personality is often used outside the United States to…


Sanchirico Presents International Tax and Ownership Nationality Today at Penn

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Chris William Sanchirico (Pennsylvania) presents As American as Apple Inc.: International Tax and Ownership Nationality, 68 Tax L. Rev. ___ (2014), at Pennsylvania today as part of its Tax Law and Policy Workshop Series hosted by Michael Knoll, Chris William Sanchirico, and Reed Shuldiner: The ownership nationality of large US…


Benefit Corporations: The Latest Development in the Evolution of Social Enterprise

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Mystica M. Alexander (Bentley University), Benefit Corporations—The Latest Development in the Evolution of Social Enterprise: Are they Worthy of a Taxpayer Subsidy?, 38 Seton Hall Legis. J. 219 (2014): The purpose of this Article is twofold: (1) placing the Benefit Corporation within the historical context of the social enterprise movement…


Call for Speakers: CALI Conference at Denver Law School

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CALI has issued a Call for Speakers to law faculty, librarians, and IT staff (April 3 deadline) for its 25th Annual CALI Conference for Law School Computing on June 18-20, 2015 at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law. The conference registration fee is reduced to $95 for speakers….


Cohen Presents ‘Seg Academies,’ Taxes, and Judge Ginsburg Today at Georgetown

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Stephen Cohen (Georgetown) presents ‘Seg Academies,’ Taxes, and Judge Ginsburg at Georgetown today as part of its Tax Law and Public Finance Workshop Series: On the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia then-Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg authored an opinion with profound implications not only for the law…


The Structure of American Income Tax Policy Preferences

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Cameron Ballard-Rosa (North Carolina), Lucy Martin (Yale) & Kenneth F. Scheve (Stanford), The Structure of American Income Tax Policy Preferences: Modern income tax systems are multidimensional in that different rates can be applied to different income levels. Few contemporary studies of public preferences over the income tax or redistribution more…


Diamond: The Continuing Disconnect Between Law School Critics and Market Reality

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Stephen F. Diamond (Santa Clara), The Continuing Disconnect Between Law School Critics and Market Reality: I just happened to notice that the law school critics continue to distort the findings of the Simkovic and McIntyre paper on the economic value of earning a JD. This paper sends a chill down…


Caron: Thomas Piketty and Inequality — Legal Causes and Tax Solutions

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Paul L. Caron (Pepperdine), Thomas Piketty and Inequality: Legal Causes and Tax Solutions, 64 Emory L.J. Online 2073 (2015): Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-first Century has acted as an accelerant fueling the fiery public debate over increasing inequality in America and around the world. Piketty makes the provocative empirical…


The Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads

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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: [248 Downloads] Important Developments in Federal Income Taxation (2014), by Edward A. Morse (Creighton) [152…


Simkovic: The Knowledge Tax

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Michael Simkovic (Seton Hall), The Knowledge Tax: Labor economists struggle to explain why the rates of return to higher education have remained much higher than the rates of return to other investments. This article proposes a novel explanation: distortionary taxation. Economic theory suggests that when investments that are substitutes for…


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