Paul Caron is one of the leading entrepreneurial tax scholars in the country. Since joining the UC faculty in 1990, he has written numerous books and law review articles, and is active in a variety of scholarly projects.
Dean Caron's most recent books include Tax Stories (Foundation Press, 2d ed. 2009) and Federal Wealth Transfer Taxation: Cases and Materials (Foundation Press, 6th ed. 2009) (with Paul McDaniel & Jim Repetti).
His most recent law review articles concern the estate tax, law school rankings and the impact of new technologies on legal scholarship and teaching: The Estate Tax Non-Gap: Why Repeal a "Voluntary" Tax?, 20 Stan. L. & Pol'y Rev. 153 (2009) (with Jim Repetti); Are Scholars Better Bloggers? Bloggership: How Blogs Are Transforming Legal Scholarship, 84 Wash. U. L. Rev. 1025 (2006); The Long Tail of Legal Scholarship, 116 Yale L.J. Pocket Part 38 (2006); Dead Poets and Academic Progenitors: The Next Generation of Law School Rankings, 81 Ind. L.J. 1 (2006) (with Rafael Gely); Ranking Law Schools: Using SSRN to Measure Scholarly Performance, 81 Ind. L.J. 83 (2006) (with Bernard S. Black); What Law Schools Can Learn From Billy Beane and the Oakland Athletics, 82 Tex. L. Rev. 1483 (2004) (with Rafael Gely); and Taking Back the Law School Classroom: Using Technology to Foster Active Student Learning, 54 J. Legal Educ. 551 (2004) (with Rafael Gely).
Dean Caron organized the first scholarly conferences on law school rankings and legal blogging: Bloggership: How Blogs Are Transforming Legal Scholarship, Harvard Law School (April 28, 2006); and The Next Generation of Law School Rankings, Indiana University School of Law (April 15, 2005).
Dean Caron serves as Series Editor for Foundation Press in developing a Law Stories Series of books patterned after his Tax Stories book. In addition, he serves as Series Editor for LexisNexis in developing a Graduate Tax Series of books designed for use in law school tax LL.M. programs. Dean Caron is editor of three electronic journals of Tax Law Abstracts published by the Legal Scholarship Network of the Social Science Research Network: International & Comparative Tax, Practitioner Series, and Tax Law & Policy.
Dean Caron is the Publisher and Editor of TaxProf Blog, the most popular tax blog on the Internet. He is the Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of the Law Professor Blogs Network of more than 50 blogs edited by law professors around the country in other areas of law. Dean Caron provides two other online resources to tax professors: TaxProf Email Discussion Group and TaxProf Exam Bank. He is the publisher of Leiter's Law School Rankings, the major alternative to the U.S. News & World Report Law School Rankings.
Dean Caron has served as a visiting professor at the University of Florida College of Law, Florida State University College of Law, University of San Diego School of Law, and New York University/IRS Office of Chief Counsel Continuing Professional Education Program.
Dean Caron has received numerous awards for his scholarship and teaching, including the Faculty Achievement Award (1997), Goldman Prize for Teaching Excellence (2003), and Harold C. Schott Scholarship Award (2005). He served as the inaugural Associate Dean for Faculty Research (1999-2001) and the inaugural Director of Faculty Projects (2001-2007), and is now the inaugural Associate Dean of Faculty.
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Paul published several issues of his SSRN Tax Law Abstracts e-journals:
Paul’s article, Are Scholars Better Bloggers? Bloggership: How Blogs Are Transforming Legal Scholarship, 84 Wash. U. L. Rev. 1025 (2006), was cited in Steven Keslowitz, The Transformative Nature of Blogs and Their Effects on Legal Scholarship, 2009 Cardozo L. Rev. de•novo 252.
Paul’s TaxProf Blog was cited in the New York Times. He was named one of the 100 Best Professors Who Blog by Online College.
Paul published several issues of his SSRN Tax Law Abstracts e-journals:
For the fourth year in a row, Paul was named as one of the 100 Most Influential People in Tax and Accounting by Accounting Today, the leading journal of the accounting profession. Others on the list included President Barack Obama, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.
Paul was quoted in the Associated Press story, Burning down the House? IRS Nixes Tax Deductions, which was syndicated on ABC, CBS, CNBC, Forbes, and NPR, and in over 100 newspapers around the country today, including the Atlanta Journal Constitution; Chicago Tribune; Cleveland Plain Dealer; Dayton Daily News; Houston Chronicle; Los Angeles Times; Miami Herald; New York Times; Newsday; Philadelphia Inquirer: San Diego Union-Tribune; Seattle Times; and Washington Times.
Paul was quoted in the Washington Post, Home Makeover, Before and Right After, Sept. 3, 2009. His blog post, Law School Commencement Speakers, TaxProf Blog, Apr. 24, 2008, was quoted in Kent Greenfield, Attorney General Mukasey's Defense of Irresponsibility, 32 B.C. Int'l & Comp. L. Rev. 223 (2009).
Paul published several issues of his SSRN Tax Law Abstracts e-journals:
Paul published Tax Stories (Foundation Press, 2d ed. 2009) (including a chapter authored by Paul). He taught Tax I at the University of San Diego School of Law as the Herzog Summer Visiting Professor in Taxation.
The Law Stories Series of Foundation Press, for which Paul serves as Series Editor, published Constitutional Law Stories (2d ed. 2009), by Michael C. Dorf (Cornell).
Paul was quoted in:
Paul published several issues of his Tax Law Abstracts e-journals:
Several of Paul’s publications were cited:
Paul published The Estate Tax Non-Gap: Why Repeal a "Voluntary" Tax?, 20 Stan. L. & Pol'y Rev. 153 (2009) (with James R. Repetti (Boston College)).
Paul was quoted in an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, Tax Audits Are No Laughing Matter, May 18, 2009.
Robert Morse, who as Director of Data Research at U.S. News & World Report is responsible for the annual law school rankings, recommended Paul’s “TaxProf for some of the best coverage and reactions to the law school rankings.” Paul’s coverage of the law school rankings also was featured in:
Paul published several issues of his Tax Law Abstracts e-journals:Two of Paul’s books were cited:
Paul published Federal Wealth Transfer Taxation (Foundation Press 6th ed. 2009) (with Paul McDaniel (Florida) & James Repetti (Boston College)).
The Law Stories Series of Foundation Press, for which Paul serves as Series Editor, published Corporate Law Stories, by J. Mark Ramseyer (Harvard).
Paul celebrated the Five-Year Anniversary of his TaxProf Blog — the most-visited law-focused blog edited by a single law professor (with over 6.8 million visitors and 9.2 million page views).
Paul hosted two luncheon discussion meetings for faculty, students, and staff on the DVD Series Nooma, sponsored by the Christian Legal Society.
Paul published several issues of his Tax Law Abstracts e-journals:
Paul was featured in a College of Law e-News article, Tax Law Professor and Associate Dean Paul Caron Finds His Niche.
Paul’s TaxProf Blog posting, Kysar: Transition Rules and Statutory Interpretation in G-I Holdings, was cited in the government’s brief in opposition in In re G-I Holdings, 369 B.R. 832 (D.N.J. 2007). He was quoted in a Gannett News article, Budget 101: Easy to Spend, Tough to Tax.
The Law Stories Series of Foundation Press, for which Paul serves as Series Editor, published Death Penalty Stories, by John H. Blume (Cornell) & Jordan M. Steiker (Texas).
Paul hosted two luncheon discussion meetings for faculty, students, and staff on the DVD Series Nooma, sponsored by the Christian Legal Society.
Paul published several issues of his Tax Law Abstracts e-journals:
Two of Paul’s articles were cited:
Paul hosted two luncheon discussion meetings for faculty, students, and staff on the DVD Series Nooma, sponsored by the Christian Legal Society. He published several issues of his Tax Law Abstracts e-journals:
Paul was quoted in:
Paul’s TaxProf Blog was named by the ABA Journal as one of the Top 100 law blogs, and finished third among 15 law blogs in the Legal Theory Category in voting by readers of the ABA Journal.
The Law Stories Series of Foundation Press, for which Paul serves as Series Editor, published Human Rights Advocacy Stories, by Deena R. Hurwitz (Virginia), Margaret L. Satterhwaite (NYU) & Douglas B. Ford (Virginia).
The Graduate Tax Series of LexisNexis, for which Paul serves as Series Editor, published Tax Crimes, by Steve Johnson (UNLV), Scott Schumacher (Washington), Larry Campagna (Adjunct Professor, Houston) & John Townsend (Adjunct Professor, Houston).
Paul published several issues of his Tax Law Abstracts e-journals:
Paul’s TaxProf Blog post, Is the Law Professor Gravy Train Over? (Jan. 20, 2009), was featured in the ABA Journal as one of the Top 10 Stories of the Week.
Paul was quoted in:
The Law Stories Series of Foundation Press, for which Paul serves as Series Editor, published Death Penalty Stories, by John H. Blume (Cornell) & Jordan Steiker (Texas).
The Graduate Tax Series of LexisNexis, for which Paul serves as Series Editor, published U.S. International Taxation, by Allison Christians (Wisconsin), Samuel Donaldson (Washington) & Philip Postlewaite (Northwestern).
Paul launched a new blog as part of his Law Professor Blogs Network: Constitutional Law Prof Blog, by Steven Schwinn (John Marshall), Ruthann Robson (CUNY) & Nareissa L. Smith (Florida Coastal).
Paul published several issues of his Tax Law Abstracts e-journals:
Two of Paul’s publications were cited:
Paul was quoted in:
Paul presented The Estate Tax Non-Gap: Why Repeal a 'Voluntary' Tax? at Stanford Law School’s Closing the Tax Gap Symposium. The article will be published in the Stanford Law & Policy Review.
He was named one of the Top 100 Most Influential People in Tax and Accounting for the third year in a row by Accounting Today.
The Law Stories Series of Foundation Press, for which Paul serves as Series Editor, published:
The Graduate Tax Series of LexisNexis, for which Paul serves as Series Editor, published:
Paul’s TaxProf Blog was named one of the Top 100 Law Blogs by the ABA Journal.
Paul launched several new blogs as part of his Law Professor Blogs Network:
Paul published several issues of his Tax Law Abstracts e-journals:
Several of Paul’s articles were cited:
Paul's article, The Estate Tax Non-Gap: Why Repeal a "Voluntary" Tax (with Jim Repetti), was accepted for publication in the Stanford Law & Policy Review.
Paul taught Tax I at the University of San Diego School of Law as a Visiting Professor of Law.
Paul presented The Story of Murphy: A New Front in the War on the Income Tax as part of the 12th Annual UC Faculty Summer Scholarship Series.
Paul's TaxProf Blog was named:Paul launched a new blog as part of his Law Professor Blogs Network: International Law Prof Blog, edited by Mark Wojcik (John Marshall), Cindy Galway Buys (Southern Illinois) & Michael Peil (Washington University).
Paul published several issues of his Tax Law Abstracts e-journals:Paul signed a contract with Foundation Press for a second edition of his Tax Stories book.
Paul's blog, TaxProf Blog, was named a Top-50 Law School Blog. His blog commentary on Hartman v. Commissioner, T.C. Memo. 2008-124 (5/1/08), was featured in The Atlantic and Bloomberg News.
Paul published several issues of his Tax Law Abstracts e-journals:Paul presented The Story of Murphy: A New Front in the War on the Income Tax at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law (as part of its James Hausman Tax Law and Policy Workshop Series) and at Boston College Law School (as part of its Tax Policy Workshop Series).
The Law Stories Series of Foundation Press, for which Paul Serves as Series Editor, published Civil Rights Stories (2d edition), edited by Kevin M. Clermont (Cornell).
Paul was quoted in:Paul launched a new blog as part of his Law Professor Blogs Network: Career & Professional Development Blog, edited by Susan Gainen & Mina Jones Jefferson (Cincinnati).
Paul published several issues of his SSRN Tax Law Abstracts e-journals:Paul's scholarship was featured in the University Libraries' 17th Annual Authors, Editors and Composers Reception.
Paul's TaxProf Blog was featured in the Wall Street Journal's Blog Watch Column. He was quoted in an Associated Press story, Who Gets the Biggest Mortgage-Interest Tax Break?
Paul was quoted in a New York Times article, Obamas' Tax Returns Show Donation Spike. His blog post on Obama's tax returns was widely quoted in the blogosphere, including:Paul's aticle, What Law Schools Can Learn From Billy Beane and the Oakland Athletics, 82 Tex. L. Rev. 1483 (2004) (with Rafael Gely), was cited in Michael Vitiello, Liberal Bias in the Legal Academy: Overstated and Undervalued, 77 Miss. L.J. 507 (2007).
The Law Stories Series of Foundation Press, for which Paul Serves as Series Editor, published Civil Rights Stories, edited by Myriam Gilles (Cardozo) & Risa Goluboff (Virginia).
Paul's TaxProf Blog was named the eighth most influential law faculty blog in a new study by Jay Brown (Denver), Of Empires, Independents, and Captives: Law Blogging, Law Scholarship, and Law School Rankings. Thirteen of the fifty most influential law faculty blogs are members of Paul's Law Professor Blogs Network.
Paul published several issues of his SSRN Tax Law Abstracts e-journals:Paul was quoted in Who Gets the Biggest Mortgage-Interest Tax Break? The Wealthy, Associated Press, Feb. 27, 2008.
Several of Paul's publications were cited:Paul spoke on a panel on Tax in the 21st Century: What's Blogging Got to Do with It? at the ABA Tax Section's Midyear Meeting in Lake Las Vegas, NV. The panel was covered in Kristen A. Parillo, Tax Press Plays Crucial Role in IRS Communications Strategy, Korb Says, 118 Tax Notes 478 (2008).
The Law Stories Series of Foundation Press, for which Paul serves as Series Editor, published Trial Stories, by Michael E. Tigar (American) & Angela J. Davis (American).
Paul attended the AALS Annual Meeting in New York City, where he participated in a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI).
Several of Paul's publications were cited:The Law Stories Series of Foundation Press, for which Paul serves as Series Editor, published Education Law Stories, by Ronna Schneider (Cincinnati) & Michael Olivas (Houston).
Paul was profiled on Law Crossing. He revealed, among other things, his connection to Bill Clinton, his favorite ice cream, the last book he read, and the contributions of his three mentors.
Paul launched three new blogs as part of his Law Professor Blogs Network:Paul published Are Scholars Better Bloggers? Bloggership: How Blogs Are Transforming Legal Scholarship, 84 Wash. U. L. Rev. 1025 (2006). He presented Taking Back the Law School Classroom: Using Technology to Foster Active Student Learning at Illinois.
The Law Stories Series of Foundation Press, for which Paul serves as Series Editor, published International Law Stories, by John Noyes (California Western), Mark Janis (Connecticut) & Laura Dickinson (Connecticut).
Paul was interviewed on Real Lawyers Have Blogs. Two of his posts on TaxProf Blog were selected by the ABA Journal for inclusion on its Top Ten Stories of the Week:Paul was quoted in the Wall Street Journal: High Court May Look Favorably on Municipal Bond Tax Breaks, Nov. 2, 2007, at A2.
Two of Paul's posts on TaxProf Blog were cited in law review articles:For the second year in a row, Paul was named one of the Top 100 Most Influential People in Tax and Accounting by Accounting Today.
The Law Stories Series of Foundation Press, for which Paul serves as Series Editor, published Antitrust Stories, by Eleanor Fox (NYU) & Daniel Crane (Cardozo).
Paul presented Law School Rankings: Past, Present, and Future to the faculty as part of the College's Faculty Development Series.
Paul published several issues of his Tax Law Abstracts e-journals:Paul and Bill Henderson (Indiana-Bloomington) invited forty prominent thinkers in the law school world to offer their single best idea for reforming legal education to Erwin Chemerinsky, the inaugural dean of the new law school at the University of California-Irvine. The forty contributions were published on Paul's TaxProf Blog and attracted considerable attention in the media and blogosphere (including the Wall Street Journal, Appellate Law & Practice, Brian Leiter's Law School Reports, Chronicle of Higher Education, Concurring Opinions, Conglomerate, Empirical Legal Studies, Feminist Law Professors, Law School Innovation, Legal Profession Blog, Madisonian.net, Nancy Rapoport's Blogspot, PrawfsBlawg, StephenBainbridge.com, Teknoids, Truth on the Market, and Voir Dire).
Paul's TaxProf Blog was named one of the Top 100 Academic Blogs that Every Professional Investor Should Read by CurrencyTrading.net.
Paul published several issues of his Tax Law Abstracts e-journals:Two of Paul's articles, Dead Poets and Academic Progenitors: The Next Generation of Law School Rankings, 81 Ind. L.J. 1 (2005) (with Rafael Gely), and Ranking Law Schools: Using SSRN to Measure Scholarly Performance, 81 Ind. L.J. 83 (2005) (with Bernard S. Black), were cited in Theodore P. Seto, Understanding the U.S. News Law School Rankings, 60 SMU L. Rev. 493 (2007).
Paul was appointed Associate Dean of Faculty.
The Law Stories Series of Foundation Press, for which Paul serves as Series Editor, published its 18th book: Bankruptcy Law Stories, edited by Robert Rasmussen (Dean, USC).
Paul's TaxProf Blog passed the 3,000,000-visitor mark, making it the most-visited law-focused blog edited by a single law professor. His blog was:Paul presented Law School Rankings: Past, Present, and Future at the LSAC Annual Meeting and Educational Conference in Tucson, Arizona. He led a faculty luncheon discussion on Scholarly Entrepreneurship at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law hosted by his former UC colleagues Jean Braucher and Jack Chin.
Paul's TaxProf Blog was praised in the Wall Street Journal on May 30: "Mr. Caron's widely read Blog is important reading for anyone trying to keep up with tax-related news." His blog was ranked as the eighth most popular law blog among 1845 law blogs tracked by Justia.com.
Paul launched three new blogs as part of his Law Professor Blogs Network:Paul celebrated the three-year anniversary of his TaxProf Blog. During its three years of existence, TaxProf Blog has become the most popular law-focused blog published by a single law professor, with over 2.7 million visitors and 3.5 million page views.
Paul launched three new blogs as part of his Law Professor Blogs Network:Paul presented Technology in the Law School Classroom at The Future of Law Libraries Symposium in Jacksonville, Florida.
Paul's TaxProf Blog received its 2.5 millionth visitor in March, making it the most-visited law-focused blog edited by a single law professor.
Paul was quoted in:Paul launched Poverty Law Prof Blog, edited by Ezra Rosser (American) & Lowell Hunt (Notre Dame), as part of his Law Professor Blogs Network.
Paul published several issues of his Tax Law Abstracts e-journals :Paul participated as a panelist at a Symposium sponsored by the New York Law School Program in Law & Journalism and the New York Law School Law Review on Writing About the Law: From Bluebook to Blogs and Beyond. Paul spoke on a panel on Just Cite It! The Traditional Law Review Structure with Ann Althouse (Wisconsin), Randy E. Barnett (Georgetown), and James Lindgren (Northwestern), moderated by Cameron Stracher (NYLS). The event was live-blogged by Ann Althouse, David Latt, and Larry Solum.
Paul was quoted in:Paul presented Building and Marketing Your Scholarly "Brand" at the New Law Professors Section Meeting on Scholarship and the New Law Professor: Of Blogs, Books, Networks, and the Placement Game (with Dorothy Brown (Washington & Lee), Robert Chesney (Wake Forest), Mark Godsey(Cincinnati) & Lawrence Solum (Illinois)) at the AALS Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.
Also at the AALS Annual Meeting, he:Paul was quoted in IRS Must File Answers in Small Cases, Nat'l L.J., Jan. 30, 2007. His article, New Decision Further Clouds Deductibility of Expenses During Administration, 11 Est. Plan. 164 (1984), was cited in George Gleason Bogert, George Taylor Bogert & Amy Morris Hess, The Law of Trusts and Trustees (West, 3rd ed. 2006 Supp.).
Paul launched Food Law Prof Blog, by Donna M. Byrne (William Mitchell), as part of his Law Professor Blogs Network
Paul published several issues of his Tax Law Abstracts e-journals:Paul's book, Tax Stories, (Foundation Press, 2003), was cited in Tsilly Dagan, Commuting, 26 Va. Tax Rev. 185 (2006).
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