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Reuters, ABA Sued Over Diversity Scholarships by Conservative Group:A prominent conservative group sued the American Bar Association on Saturday, alleging that a scholarship program meant to boost the number of racially and ethnically diverse law students is discriminatory.
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The new 2025-26 U.S. News Environmental Law Rankings include the environmental law programs at 189 law schools (the faculty survey had a 50% response rate).
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taxprof.typepad.com | Paul Caron
Wednesday, April 16, 2025 Gladriel Shobe (BYU; Google Scholar) & Matthew S.
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Brian D. Galle (Georgetown; Google Scholar), David Gamage (Missouri; Google Scholar) & Bob Lord (Patriotic Millionaires), Taxing Dynasties, 174 U. Pa. L. Rev. ___ (2026):The estate tax and the broader wealth-transfer-tax system are even more broken than is commonly understood. Over the past two decades, researchers and policy experts have identified a handful of key tactics that mega-rich families use to pass wealth from generation to generation without paying tax.
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Washington Free Beacon, At Harvard-Hosted 'Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon,' Law Students Target the Pages of Firms That Criticized School's Response to Anti-Semitism: Harvard Law students also edited Wikipedia to downplay anti-Semitic activity on college campuses.
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Emily Cauble (Wisconsin; Google Scholar), Non-Experts' Impressions of Informal Tax Guidance, 76 Syracuse L. Rev. __ (2026): I conducted a survey of 2,191 U.S. adults designed to gain insight into the impact that statements in informal IRS guidance have on non-expert taxpayers. The survey also examines whether respondents form different impressions when they receive guidance delivered by an automated tool rather than guidance contained in IRS publications. This Article reports that survey's results.
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Tuesday, April 15, 2025 Chronicle of Higher Education Op-Ed: These 77 Colleges Have the Most to Lose From Trump’s Cuts, by Phillip Levine (Wellesley College & Brookings Institution):What does President Trump mean for college finances?
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taxprof.typepad.com | Paul Caron
The new 2025-26 U.S. News Dispute Resolution Rankings include the dispute resolution programs at 149 law schools (the faculty survey had a 43% response rate).
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taxprof.typepad.com | Paul Caron
Harold Holzer (Director, The Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute (Hunter College)), The First IRS Commissioner: ‘The Most Consequential Public Figure Americans Have Never Heard Of’ (reviewing Jeffrey Boutwell, Boutwell: Radical Republican and Champion of Democracy (2025)): America’s first IRS commissioner helped raise the vast sums needed to wage the Civil War and was a strong advocate of racial equality. It took not a village of historians but a lone descendant to rescue George S.
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taxprof.typepad.com | Paul Caron
Richard Winchester (Brooklyn) presents A Tax Policing Paradox at Columbia today as part of its Davis Polk & Wardwell Tax Policy Colloquium hosted by Michael Love:If the government audits more taxpayers, that generally leads to higher levels of taxpayer compliance. However, this does not always happen. If the government audits taxpayers and fails to detect a specific form of tax evasion, taxpayer compliance will fall in two respects.