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18 May 2013, 8:34 am
Michael D. Whitty (Vedder Price, Chicago), The Jane Austen Plan Club: Lessons For Estate Planners and Their Clients From The Life and Novels of Jane Austen, 47 Real Prop. Tr.& Est. 501 L.J. (Winter 2013): As we commemorate the 200th anniversaries of the publication of Jane Austen's novels, estate planners... [read post]
18 May 2013, 1:05 am
Joanna Heiberg (J.D. 2013, Washington & Lee), Note, FATCA: Toward a Multilateral Automatic Information Reporting Regime, 69 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 1685 (2012): This Note will argue that international cooperation is essential for successful FATCA implementation. Part II will provide background information on offshore tax evasion and existing U.S.... [read post]
17 May 2013, 10:37 pm
Elizabeth N. Jones (Western State College of Law) has posted her article Judges, Family Law, Cultural Sociology of Divorce: An Encyclopedia, pp. 626-629, Robert E. Emery, ed., 2013, on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This is a chapter in an... [read post]
17 May 2013, 9:30 pm
On June 27, 2013, Morehead State University will host a Federalism Symposium featuring "academic presentations of research from scholars across the nation with expertise on federalism and intergovernmental relations." For information on how to submit a proposal, follow the link. (Hat tip: H-Law) The latest issue of the Journal of Legal Education contains several reviews of interest: Laurie L. Levenson (Loyola Law School, Los Angeles) reviews The People's Courts: Pursuing Judicial Independence in… [read post]
17 May 2013, 1:06 pm
ReutersLegal posts, "Psychiatrists unveil their long-awaited diagnostic 'bible'," by Sharon Begley. It's an excellent overview of the debate raging over the new publication. The long-awaited, controversial new edition of the bible of psychiatry can be characterized by many numbers: its... [read post]
17 May 2013, 11:13 am
UC-Hastings hosts the Spring 2013 Northern California Tax Roundtable today with these papers: Heather Field (UC-Hastings), Tax Planning and the Ethical Tax Lawyer Commentator: Caroline Chen (Santa Clara) David Gamage (UC-Berkeley), On Double-Distortion Arguments, Distribution Policy, and the Optimal Tax Mix Commentator: Susie Morse (UC-Hastings) Stu Karlinsky (Pacific Rim Tax... [read post]
17 May 2013, 11:10 am
Eric B. Rasmusen (Indiana University, Kelley School of Business), The Meaning of 'Value' for Gift and Estate Tax Donee Limitations in § 6324(B): An Amicus Brief for Marshall v. Commissioner: In 1995, J. Howard Marshall II made a gift to Elaine Marshall worth some $43 million at the time of... [read post]
17 May 2013, 11:03 am
Terry Baynes of Reuters has written an article about the recent study by a group of physicians at John Hopkins finding that large med mal awards do not contribute significantly to healthcare costs. The article quotes the lead author of... [read post]
17 May 2013, 11:00 am
Michael B. Lang (Chapman), Tax Malpractice: Issues and Avoidance, 54 Bloomberg BNA Tax Mgmt. Mem. ___ (2013): Despite considerable regulation of tax practitioners by both statutory rules and professional ethical standards, when a tax advisor mishandles a client’s tax work, whether because of incompetence, a conflict of interest or for... [read post]
17 May 2013, 10:30 am
George K. Yin (Virginia), The Role of Nonpartisan Staff in the Legislative Process: This short paper explains why the value of nonpartisan staff in the legislative process may stem primarily from the staff’s responsibilities to serve a broad group of legislators with heterogeneous interests, rather than on the “nonpartisan” nature... [read post]
17 May 2013, 9:40 am
N. Jansen Calamita (British Institute of International and Comparative Law; Univ. of Birmingham - Law), David Earnest
(Hogan Lovells International LLP), & Markus Burgstaller (Hogan Lovells International LLP) have published The Future of ICSID and the Place of Investment Treaties in International Law (British Institute of International and Comparative Law 2013). Here's the abstract:The ICSID system and the international investment treaties that have come to rely upon it face a host of challenges,… [read post]
17 May 2013, 8:00 am
New from Princeton University Press: Looking for Rights in All the Wrong Places: Why State Constitutions Contain America's Positive Rights (2013), by Emily Zackin (Department of Political Science, Hunter College, City University of New York). Here's a description from the Press:Unlike many national constitutions, which contain explicit positive rights to such things as education, a living wage, and a healthful environment, the U.S. Bill of Rights appears to contain only a long list of… [read post]
17 May 2013, 7:47 am
The UC Irvine School of Law International Justice Clinic has published The Council and the Court: Improving Security Council Support of the International Criminal Court (2013). The executive summary is here. Here's the abstract:The UC Irvine School of Law International Justice Clinic is pleased to release The Council and the Court, a report designed to answer critical questions about how the UN Security Council may improve its support of the International Criminal Court (ICC): What steps may be… [read post]
17 May 2013, 6:52 am
Now available on the Courts Law section of JOTWELL is an essay by Brooke Coleman (Seattle) entitled Celebrating Civil Rulemaking. It reviews a recent article by Lonny Hoffman (Houston), Rulemaking in the Age of Twombly and Iqbal, which will appear... [read post]
17 May 2013, 4:30 am
The journal Comparative Legal History has officially launched. Here's the announcement:Comparative Legal History: An international and comparative review of law and historyEDITORSeán Patrick Donlan, University of LimerickEmail: sean.donlan@ul.ie ARTICLES EDITORHeikki Pihlajamäki, Helsinki UniversityEmail: Heikki.pihlajamaki@helsinki.fiREVIEWS EDITORAgustín Parise, Maastricht UniversityEmail: agustin.parise@maastrichtuniversity.nlEDITORIAL STAFFWim Decock, Max Planck Institute for… [read post]
17 May 2013, 3:23 am
Mark A. Pollack (Temple Univ. - Political Science) has posted Political Science and International Courts (in The Oxford Handbook of International Adjudication, Cesare Romano, Karen Alter & Yuval Shany eds., forthcoming). Here's the abstract:The aim of this paper is to examine the essential features of political science theories and methods as applied to international courts and tribunals, and to identify the value-added insights as well as the weaknesses of this research. The paper proceeds in… [read post]
17 May 2013, 1:15 am
Shen Wei has published Rethinking the New York Convention: A Law and Economics Approach (Intersentia 2013). Here's the abstract:The New York Convention is regarded as one of the most successful treaties in the past fifty-five years. Its simplicity and brevity in wording but complexity and diversity in application have triggered endless discussions, debates and writings. Rethinking the New York Convention – A Law and Economics Approach for the first time offers a unique jurisprudence-oriented… [read post]
17 May 2013, 12:30 am
We just realized that the latest issue of the Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities has two works of legal history, The first is Personal and Official Authority: Turn-of-the-Century Lawyers and the Dissenting Opinion, by Hunter Smith:Around the turn of the last century, many American lawyers wanted to ban dissenting opinions in all courts of last resort. They derided dissenting opinions as a pernicious waste of time, one that caused uncertainty in the law, shook the public's faith in the courts and… [read post]
16 May 2013, 9:18 pm
Prof. Alex Tsesis (Loyola Chicago) joined me on Thursday for a talk on his book For Liberty and Equality: The Life and Times of the Declaration of Independence (Oxford 2012). This was a terrific read; I highly recommend it. But... [read post]
16 May 2013, 12:35 pm
The Virginia Tax Review has published Vol. 32, No. 3 (Winter 2013): Heather M. Field (UC-Hastings), Binding Choices: Tax Elections & Federal/ State Conformity, 32 Va. Tax Rev. 269 (2012) George Mundstock (Miami), The Tax Import of the FASB/IASB Proposal on Lease Accounting, 32 Va. Tax Rev. 327 (2012) Eric... [read post]