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May 24, 2013, 3:44 pm, 1098458
Chelsea Ray (J.D. 2013, Oregon), Til Death Do Us Part: A Proposal for Handling Digital Assets After Death, 47 Real Prop. Tr. & Est. L.J. 583 (2013) (First Place, 2012 Real Property, Trust and Estate Law Section Student Writing Competition): As electronic communication continues to pervade the daily lives of...
May 24, 2013, 3:44 pm, 1098457
Following up on my prior posts (links below): Bloomberg: Apple Tax Rate Ignores Profit Shifting Offshore Bloomberg: Apple’s Tax Magic Leaves Irish Bondholders Unmoved Bloomberg: Don't Blame Apple for Keeping Its Money Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: Questions About Apple’s Tax Strategy Highlight Risks of a Territorial Tax System...
May 24, 2013, 3:43 pm, 1098456
May 24, 2013, 1:44 pm, 1098383
David Elkins (Netanaya College School of Law, Israel), Taxation of Barter Transactions: Theory, Combination Transactions, and Interest-Free Loans: This is the English abstract of a book recently published by the author in Hebrew entitled Taxation of Barter Transaction: Theory, Combination Transactions, and Interest-Free Loans (Tel-Aviv 2012). The book (and the...
May 24, 2013, 1:44 pm, 1098382
Sacramento Bee: One in Six Recent California Law School Grads Can't Find Jobs: The job market for California law school graduates remains brutal, even as law school tuition rises to new heights. About 16% of 2012 graduates from California law schools were unemployed and looking for work nine months after...
May 24, 2013, 1:43 pm, 1098381
From the ASIL-IEcLIG:
The American Society of International Law’s International Economic Law Interest Group (ASIL IEcLIG) is pleased to issue a Call for Proposals for its inaugural Junior Scholars Research Forum, to be held at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, in Philadelphia, on November 22, 2013. This one-day Research Forum ...
May 24, 2013, 11:43 am, 1098306
The latest WTO complaint, on various EU measures related to the biodiesel industry, is now available here: http://www.worldtradelaw.net/cr/ds459-1(cr).
pdf There are some complicated measures involved, and I don't claim to fully understand it all yet. Here are some excerpts:
The measures referred to in this Part establish sustainability criteria with which biofuels13
and ...
May 24, 2013, 9:43 am, 1098233
Compliance with U.S. immigration laws demands constant vigilance by employers. From the upper echelon of any organization, through and including the rank and file, U.S. companies must employ lawful and non-discriminatory practices in the screening and hiring of employees. With immigration reform now attracting heightened scrutiny from Congress, the Obama ...
May 24, 2013, 7:44 am, 1098160
IRS Executive Announcement, Ken Corbin Has Been Selected to be the Acting Director, Exempt Organizations, Tax Exempt/Government Entities Division The Atlantic: The IRS Scandal Is a Test: Is It Too Hard to Fire Misbehaving Bureaucrats? The Atlantic: The IRS Scandal Isn't About Taxes—It's About Disclosure Bloomberg: IRS Hearings Express Lawmakers’...
May 24, 2013, 7:44 am, 1098159
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May 24, 2013, 5:44 am, 1098130
The Senate Finance Committee yesterday released its Seventh Tax Reform Option Paper on Economic Security: This document is the seventh in a series of papers compiling tax reform options that Finance Committee members may wish to consider as they work towards reforming our nation’s tax system. This compilation is a...
May 24, 2013, 5:44 am, 1098129
New York Times: In Tax Overhaul Debate, Large vs. Small Companies: In America’s contentious tax reform debate, it is seen as C-Suite versus Main Street. Some of the biggest and most powerful companies in the United States are fighting for a cut in the official corporate tax rate, arguing that...
May 24, 2013, 3:44 am, 1098099
m Bloomberg: Pritzker’s $54 Million Fee Paid by Family Trusts Seen as Unique Bloomberg: Pritzker Understated Income, Files Amended Disclosure Chicago Sun-Times: ‘Clerical Error’ Missed $80 Million in Pritzker Income CNN: Pritzker Denies Role in Offshore Tax Accounts Wall Street Journal: Penny Pritzker Understated Income by $80 Million Washington Post:...
May 23, 2013, 5:44 pm, 1097942
Kyle McEntee (Law School Transparency), The Federal Government’s Massive and Declining Investment in Legal Education: Nowadays, law students borrow from the Department of Education Direct Loan Program for school. These loans are income-generating assets for the government. As such, I thought it would be interesting to see how large of...
May 23, 2013, 5:44 pm, 1097940
Michael S. Knoll (Pennsylvania) & Ruth Mason (Connecticut; moving to Virginia), A Brief Sur-Reply to Professors Graetz and Warren, 123 Yale L.J. Online 1 (2013): We are grateful for the deep engagement by Michael Graetz and Alvin Warren with our article, What Is Tax Discrimination?, which appeared in the print...
May 23, 2013, 5:44 pm, 1097941
BBC: Europe's Push Against Tax Fraud Gains Momentum Financial Times: EU Rushes Out Corporate Tax Transparency Law New York Times: Austria Gives Ground on Banking Secrecy at Meeting of European Union Leaders New York Times: Europe Pushes to Shed Stigma of a Tax Haven Wall Street Journal: Tax Fairness Tops...
May 23, 2013, 5:44 pm, 1097939
Normally here at Workplace Prof Blog, we at least like to pretend that we have some shame when it comes to self-promotion by getting fellow bloggers to post on each others' papers. I'm going to break this norm, however, because...
May 23, 2013, 3:44 pm, 1097862
Jonathan G. Blattmachr (Eagle River Advisors, New York), Kim Kamin (Schiff Hardin, Chicago) & Jeffrey M. Bergman (Schiff Hardin, Chicago), Estate Planning's Most Powerful Tool: Powers of Appointment Refreshed, Redefined, and Reexamined, 47 Real Prop. Tr.& Est. L.J. 529 (2013): One of the most versatile tools estate planners have at...
May 23, 2013, 3:44 pm, 1097861
Faced with a predicted water shortage in 2025, the Marin Municipal Water District imposed significant water conservation restrictions on its residents and businesses. When those efforts failed, however, the District started looking around for more water sources. Fortunately, they didn't have to look too far since the Pacific Ocean abuts ...
May 23, 2013, 3:44 pm, 1097860
From friend of the blog, Dara Chernyeva, please consider the following international conference which touches on labor and employment law topics: I'm writing to you to share the call for papers for a International Comparative Sciences Symposium in Sofia which...
May 23, 2013, 3:43 pm, 1097859
Following up on the post from the other day, let's see what the EU member states think of an investment agreement with China:
The European Commission decided today to ask the Member States for their agreement on a mandate to open negotiations on an investment agreement with ...
May 23, 2013, 3:43 pm, 1097858
The version of libertarianism that I refer to as the hard line natural rights position holds that individuals have an absolute right to themselves and their property, hence that any violation for any purpose is wrong. Obvious implications are that it is wrong to collect taxes for any ...
May 23, 2013, 1:44 pm, 1097783
E. Thomas Sullivan (President, University of Vermont; former Provost and Senior Vice President, University of Minnesota; former Dean, University of Minnesota Law School; former Dean, University of Arizona College of Law; and former Chair, ABA Section of Legal Education), 2012 James P. White Lecture on Legal Education: The Tranformation of...
May 23, 2013, 1:43 pm, 1097781
The issue of trade in lethal injection drugs came up a while ago in relation to U.S. excecutions. But we are not the only executioner around, and similar issues have now arisen in Viet Nam:
Vietnam has issued a new law allowing domestically produced chemicals to be used in lethal ...
May 23, 2013, 1:43 pm, 1097782
I've always thought that the importance of production and process methods for the analysis of WTO rules is greatly overstated, but I recognize that others find it relevant, or at least interesting. Hence, I feel obligated to point to the following statement by the AB in para. 5.63 of the ...
May 23, 2013, 1:43 pm, 1097780
Well, sort of:
The WTO’s Appellate Body ruled that the program’s requirement that meat producers gather a greater amount of information about meat origins than is ultimately conveyed to consumers downstream violated WTO requirements. To address this concern, USDA’s new rule will offer consumers more precise labels that specify ...
May 23, 2013, 11:44 am, 1097700
May 23, 2013, 11:44 am, 1097699
Yesterday, the Senate HELP Committee approved all five NLRB nominees. The Republican nominees (Johnson and Miscimarra) got unanimous support; Chairman Pearce (a Dem) had four Republicans vote against him; and Members Block and Griffin (Dems) had all Republicans except for...
