Month: January 2015

Mike Simkovic has a new paper up on ssrn, "Distortionary Taxation of Human Capital Acquisition Costs."  Cribbing now from the abstract:  High pre-tax rates of return to post-secondary education suggest…

And the snow will surely be gone by the time you actually have to show up on campus. The announcement is here.

Over at his eponymous blog (here), Northwestern JD/PhD candidate Ryan Whalen has some interesting visuals and data based on the Census of Law Professor Twitter Users 3.0. One sample is…

Over at TaxProfBlog, I found the abstract of a great new article by Jay Sterling Silver  of St. Thomas: Pedagogically Sound Cuts, Tighter (Not Looser) Accreditation Standards, and a Well-oiled Doomsday Machine:…

The University of British Columbia Faculty of Law received a C$30 million gift from alum Peter Allard and will rename the school the Peter A. Allard School of Law. 

I am shocked and saddened to hear that my friend Jonathan Ocko passed away suddenly yesterday. Jonathan was a professor of history at North Carolina State University, where he specialized…

Below the fold is Version 3.0 of the census of law prof Twitter users.  Of the 553 faculty members included on this list, 330 are male; 223 are female. By ...

In November 1979, at an anti-Klan rally in Greensboro the Klan showed up -- and then massacred five of the protesters.  This led some years ago to a truth and…

When I went to law school (I graduated from Harvard in 1994), no one ever mentioned the bar exam.   In fact, I don’t remember a single one of my professors ...

Regular Lounge readers may recall the Taxing Eggs Mini-Symposium we held here last February, which gathered a number of tax experts to discuss Perez v. Commissioner, No. 9103-12 (Feb. 14,…