Month: February 2014

Many thanks to my Duke colleague, Lawrence A. Zelenak, for agreeing to join us in discussing Perez v. Commissioner today.  Larry is the Pamela B. Gann Professor of Law at…

I previously introduced Lisa Milot (Georgia) as one of our guest tax experts for today’s mini-symposium on Perez v. Commissioner.  Lisa specializes in federal transfer taxation, estate planning, and property…

The LSAC reports that "As of 2/21/14, there are 253,293 fall 2014 applications submitted by 36,304 applicants. Applicants are down 11.7% and applications are down 12.3% from 2013.  Last year at this…

I have already introduced Bridget Crawford (Pace) and special guest blogger Lisa Milot (Georgia) as tax experts who will join us in the Lounge for this mini-symposium on Perez v.…

Several Washington state senators have proposed providing $400,000 in seed funding to help start a Tacoma campus of the University of Washington School of Law.  Tacoma lost its law school…

Hello Loungers! Welcome to our mini-symposium on Taxing Eggs.  As I mentioned in my first post, we’ll be joined by tax experts during this online symposium in order to discuss…

This provocative simile was apparently proposed in comments over at the WSJ.  It's hard to know how to even begin disassembling the assumptions underlying this question.  My colleague Lisa McElroy…

I am shocked and saddened to hear that Theodore Eisenberg, a long-time Cornell law professor and leading figure in empirical legal studies, has passed away at age 66.  Cornell has…

The University of South Carolina School of Law is seeking a visiting professor to teach Constitutional Law in Spring 2015.  The ideal candidate will have strong academic credentials, and an…

I am looking forward to reading Ian Binnington's Confederate Visions: Nationalism, Symbolism, and the Imagined South in the Civil War, which came out at the end of last year from the University…