Tuesday, September 5, 2023
Young Ran (Christine) Kim (Cardozo; Google Scholar), Taxing the Metaverse, 112 Geo. L.J. __ (2024):
The buzz surrounding the Metaverse has been growing steadily for the past couple of years, but the tax implications of this novel ecosystem remain fuzzy to most tax scholars. Such…
Tuesday, September 5, 2023
Connecticut Seeks To Hire An Entry Level Or Lateral Tax Prof
Connecticut AALS Placement Bulletin Posting:
The University of Connecticut School of Law invites applications from entry-level candidates for two fulltime tenure-track faculty positions commencing in the fall of 2024. Although we will consider candidates with a range of curricular…
ABA Journal, If Law Schools Prohibit ChatGPT in Writing, Can They Back It Up?:
Using artificial intelligence to write admissions essays now comes with significant risks at the University of Michigan Law School, which recently asked applicants to certify that they did not use the technology for drafting purposes.
False statements could result in…
Unpaid employment taxes are a substantial problem for both the government and taxpayers. From the government’s perspective this Treasury website tells us that “employment tax violations represented more than $91 billion of the gross Tax Gap and, after collection efforts, $79 billion of the net Tax Gap in this country.”
From the taxpayer’s perspective, dealing…
Tuesday, September 5, 2023
Rita A. Sethi (Hofstra), Reflective Journal: Curricular Deficits, Pedagogical Challenges and Constructing Community in a Non- Traditional Law School Class, 27 Roger Williams U. L. Rev. 57 (2022):
In adherence to honest praxis, this essay…
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Monday, September 4, 2023
Blank & Glogower: The Tax Information Gap At The Top
Joshua D. Blank (UC-Irvine; Google Scholar) & Ari D. Glogower (Northwestern; Google Scholar), The Tax Information Gap at the Top, 108 Iowa L. Rev. 1597 (2023):
Tax information reporting is an essential element of tax administration and compliance…
Monday, September 4, 2023
Black And BarRed: The Bar Examination’s History Of Exclusivity And ABA Standard 316
Nicola A. Boothe (Dean, Illinois-Chicago), Black and BarRed: The Bar Examination’s History of Exclusivity and the Threat of Further Exclusion Posed by ABA Standard 316, 74 S.C. L. Rev. 179 (2022):
Amid all the dismay, hardship, and…
New York Times Op-Ed: Political Christianity Has Claws, by David French (Author, Divided We Fall: America’s Secession Threat and How to Restore Our Nation (2020)):
America is increasingly beset by a version of cultural and political Christianity that bears little resemblance to the faith as described in the Bible. It seems as if there’s…
New York Times Op-Ed: Where Should Agnostics Go on Sundays?, by Ross Douthat:
Perry Bacon, a columnist for The Washington Post, has an essay about his experience with Christianity entitled “I left the church — and now long for a ‘church for the nones.’” The “nones,” as this newsletter’s readers probably…
