Friday, August 30, 2019

Taxing Robots?

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Reader Morris alerted me to this New York Post article . The first thing I noticed was the headline: “Brave New World: Uncle Sam is taxing r...
Wednesday, August 28, 2019

Are These Financial Literacy Survey Results Reasons to Rejoice or Worry?

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Readers of MauledAgain know that I abhor ignorance. Unlike some diseases, we know the cure for ignorance. Sometimes, though, patients refuse...
Monday, August 26, 2019

The Menace of Impetuous or Maniplative Tax Policy Announcements

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Recently, the President expressed support for two major tax cuts. His statements generated quite a bit of reaction not only throughout the t...
Friday, August 23, 2019

What Is a Tax Loophole?

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The other day, I noticed a question on Quora that, unlike almost all of the questions I’ve read, focused on tax. The person posing the ques...
Wednesday, August 21, 2019

New Jersey Rental Fees and Taxes: When Exemptions and Exceptions to Exemptions Make the Law Complicated

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Three months ago, in Making Sense of the New Jersey Rental Fees and Taxes , I described a tax issue afflicting owners of properties along th...
Monday, August 19, 2019

Courtroom Standing Ovation: “I Promised to Pay When I Got My Tax Refund, and I Did”

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It is not uncommon for people who borrow money or who otherwise owe money to promise that they will make the required payment when they rece...
Friday, August 16, 2019

Makers, Takers, Givers, Moochers, Taxes, Social Welfare Payments, and Measurement

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Reader Morris reacted to Monday’s post, The Definition of A Taxpayer , by asking If there is a word for someone who pays more in taxes than ...
Wednesday, August 14, 2019

It’s Not Just Divorces That Require Agreements With Respect to Tax Issues

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It’s been a while since I’ve seen a television court show that inspired me to write a blog post. One reason is that for almost two months I ...
Monday, August 12, 2019

The Definition of a Taxpayer

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Reader Morris sent me the link to this letter to the editor of the Red Bluff (California) Daily News. He asked me if the definition of a ta...
Friday, August 09, 2019

Some Thoughts on Teaching Law: Index

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For readers who would like an index to the series of posts on sharing Some Thoughts on Teaching Law. Here it is. Some Thoughts on Teaching...
Wednesday, August 07, 2019

When Lower Tax Rates Aren’t Enough

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So the starving oligarchs and impoverished investors, struggling to survive with their capital gains being taxed at special low rates, lower...
Monday, August 05, 2019

Some Thoughts on Teaching Law: Part XXV: In Conclusion, Passing It To the Next Generations

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Perhaps my thoughts that I shared in this series about teaching law have been of interest to those who have read them. Perhaps they were a r...
Friday, August 02, 2019

Some Thoughts on Teaching Law: Part XXIV: Course Evaluations

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When all is said and done, most law schools give their students an opportunity to evaluate the courses in which they are enrolled. For me, t...
Wednesday, July 31, 2019

Some Thoughts on Teaching Law: Part XXIII: Paying for Law School

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Though it is one of the first things prospective law students consider, I have left the question of financing law school to near the end. Te...
Monday, July 29, 2019

Some Thoughts on Teaching Law: Part XXII: Remediation Semester

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The flip side of the challenge examination is what I call the remediation semester. It’s not something I’ve ever proposed, because it probab...
Friday, July 26, 2019

Some Thoughts on Teaching Law: Part XXI: Challenge Examinations

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One of the complaints about present day legal education is that law school takes too long to complete, and that shortening the length of the...
Wednesday, July 24, 2019

Some Thoughts on Teaching Law: Part XX: The Art or Science of Grading

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For as long as there have been American law schools, grades have been the subject of numerous and sometimes intense faculty discussion and a...
Monday, July 22, 2019

Some Thoughts on Teaching Law: Part XIX: Learning From Student Examination Errors

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As I noted in an earlier post of this series, I had been warned, “You will be surprised to discover what your students did not learn.” Thoug...
Friday, July 19, 2019

Some Thoughts on Teaching Law: Part XVIII: Examinations and Assessments From the Student Perspective

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As a general proposition, students do not like examinations and assessments. Most students understand they are necessary, but do not look fo...
Wednesday, July 17, 2019

Some Thoughts on Teaching Law: Part XVII: Examinations and Assessments From the Law Professor Perspective

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When I was a law student and discussions took place about bringing me back to teach law, one member of the law faculty, trying to provide a ...
Monday, July 15, 2019

Some Thoughts on Teaching Law: Part XVI: Formative Assessment

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For decades, the pattern of determining grades in most law school classes was the administration of a final examination. In seminars, the gr...