Month: October 2023

Increasingly, we live in a side-hustle world, where many people look to either supplement or replace more traditional income with a variety of part-time or freelance jobs. There are various….

David Lat, Biglaw Firm Rescinds Job Offer Over ‘Inflammatory’ Anti-Israel Email: While it is often tempting for law deans and firm chairs to publicly declare their opposition to obviously bad….

Benjamin Alarie (Osler Chair in Business Law, University of Toronto; CEO, Blue J Legal), et al., Automated Tax Planning: Who’s Liable When AI Gets It Wrong?, 180 Tax Notes Fed…..

Byron G. Stier (Southwestern), Applying Steve Jobs’s Insights on Innovation, Leadership, and Technology Toward an Apple-Inspired Law School, 38 Notre Dame J.L. Ethics & Pub. Pol’y __ (2024): Perhaps the….

The Department of Justice continues to focus on pandemic-related fraud. This week, ten defendants were charged with filing false PPP and EIDL applications.

Daniel Shaviro (NYU; Google Scholar), Assisted Reproductive Technologies, Other New Frontiers in Medicine, and the Income Tax’s Role as a Backup Health Insurance System, 74 Tax. L. Rev. __ (2024):….

Professor Jeremy Bearer-Friend of the George Washington University Law School discusses poll taxes in the 20th century and how they were used to target taxpayers based on race and ethnicity.

Later this year, the US Supreme Court will hear Moore v. United States , a case in which the plaintiffs are challenging the constitutionality of…

W. Bradley Wendel (Cornell; Google Scholar), Rumors of the Death of BigLaw Are Greatly Exaggerated (reviewing Mitt Regan (Georgetown) & Lisa H. Rohrer (Boston University), BigLaw: Money and Meaning in….

Sakshi Bhardwaj (Ph.D. Candidate, Illinois; Google Scholar), Income During Infancy Reduces Criminal Activity for Fathers and Children: Evidence from a Discontinuity in Tax Benefits: This paper investigates the causal effect….