College of Law

Publications

Books

• Tax Stories (Foundation Press, 2d ed. 2009) (Paul L. Caron, ed.)
• Federal Wealth Transfer Taxation: Cases and Materials (Foundation Press, 6th ed. 2009) (with Paul R. McDaniel & James R. Repetti)
• Federal Wealth Transfer Taxation: Study Problems (Foundation Press, 6th ed. 2009) (with Paul R. McDaniel & James R. Repetti)
• Federal Wealth Transfer Tax Anthology (Anderson, 1998) (with Karen C. Burke & Grayson M.P. McCouch), reviewed by John E. Donaldson, 79 Tax Notes 1067 (1998)
• Federal Income Tax Anthology (Anderson, 1997) (with Karen C. Burke & Grayson M.P. McCouch), reviewed by William J. Turnier, 74 Tax Notes 1343 (1997)

Book Chapters

• The Story of Murphy: A New Front in the War on the Income Tax in Tax Stories (Foundation Press, 2d ed. 2009)
• Teaching with Technology in the 21st Century Law School Classroom in The Future of Law Libraries 10 (Thomson-West, 2006)
• Tax Prof: A Virtual Tax Community, Teaching Tax Through Stories, and The TaxProf Exam Bank: Practical Help for the Tax Professor in Teaching The Law School Curriculum (Carolina Academic Press, 2005) (Steven Friedland & Gerald F. Hess, eds.)
• Tax Archaeology in Tax Stories (Foundation Press, 2d ed. 2009) (Paul L. Caron, ed.)

Articles, Essays & Book Reviews

• The Costs of Estate Tax Dithering, 43 Creighton L. Rev. ___ (2010) (TePoel Lecture)
• The Estate Tax Non-Gap: Why Repeal a "Voluntary" Tax?, 20 Stan. L. & Pol'y Rev. 153 (2009) (with James R. Repetti)
• Are Scholars Better Bloggers?, 84 Wash. U. L. Rev. 1025 (2006) (symposium)
• Dead Poets and Academic Progenitors: The Next Generation of Law School Rankings, 81 Ind. L.J. 1 (2006) (symposium) (with Rafael Gely)
• The Long Tail of Legal Scholarship, 116 Yale L.J. Pocket Part 38 (2006)
• Perspectives: Blogging Opens Up New Avenues for Professors, Diverse Issues in Higher Educ., July 19, 2006 (with Ellen Podgor)
• Ranking Law Schools: Using SSRN to Measure Scholarly Performance, 81 Ind. L.J. 83 (2006) (symposium) (with Bernard S. Black)
• The Top 10 Tax Stories of 2005, 110 Tax Notes 169 (2006)
• Tax Profs Remember Boris Bittker, 109 Tax Notes 119 (2005)
• Affirmative Refraction: Grutter v. Bollinger Through the Lens of The Case of the Speluncean Explorers, 21 Const. Comment. 63 (2004) (symposium) (with Rafael Gely)
• Taking Back the Law School Classroom: Using Technology to Foster Active Student Learning, 54 J. Legal Educ. 551 (2004) (with Rafael Gely)
• What Law Schools Can Learn From Billy Beane and the Oakland Athletics, 82 Tex. L. Rev. 1483 (2004) (reviewing Michael Lewis, Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game (2003)) (with Rafael Gely)
• Back to the Future: Teaching Law Through Stories, 71 U. Cin. L. Rev. 405 (2002) (symposium)
• The Associate Dean for Faculty Research Position: Encouraging and Promoting Scholarship, 33 U. Tol. L. Rev. 233 (2001) (symposium) (with Joseph P. Tomain)
• The Federal Tax Implications of Bush v. Gore, 79 Wash. U. L.Q. 749 (2001)
• Confusion Reigns over State Law and Administration Expenses, 74 Tax Notes 1314 (1997)
• Tax Court Fumbles Substance-Over-Form Ball in Estate of Brown, 75 Tax Notes 1240 (1997)
• Tax Court and Service Stake Out Positions in State Law Debate, 71 Tax Notes 229 (1996)
• Tax Myopia Meets Tax Hyperopia: The Unproven Case of Increased Judicial Deference to Revenue Rulings, 57 Ohio St. L.J. 637 (1996)
• Ten Estate Planning Advantages of Limited Liability Companies, 70 Tax Notes 998 (1996)
• Chief Justice Burger: A Better Tax Lawyer Than His Critics, 69 Tax Notes 1020 (1995)
• Court Rejects Application of Dickman to Foregone Dividends, 66 Tax Notes 552 (1995)
• Estate and Gift Tax Problems of Principals and Agents under Durable Powers of Attorney, 66 Tax Notes 1009 (1995)
• Estate Planning Implications of the Right of Publicity, 68 Tax Notes 95 (1995)
• Section 2036 Ruling May Force Bengals Out of Cincinnati, 67 Tax Notes 1504 (1995)
• When Does Life Begin for Tax Purposes?, 68 Tax Notes 320 (1995)
• Bosch and the Allure of Adversariness, 64 Tax Notes 673 (1994)
• Taxing Opportunity, 14 Va. Tax Rev. 347 (1994)
• Tax Myopia, or Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Tax Lawyers, 13 Va. Tax Rev. 517 (1994)
• The Federal Courts of Appeals’ Use of State Court Decisions in Tax Cases: “Proper Regard” Means “No Regard,” 46 Okla. L. Rev. 443 (1993)
• The Lurking Retroactivity Issues in Irvine, 61 Tax Notes 1109 (1993)
• The Role of State Court Decisions in Federal Tax Litigation: Bosch, Erie, and Beyond, 71 Or. L. Rev. 781 (1992)
• The Capital Defendant's Right to Obtain Exculpatory Evidence from the Prosecution to Present in Mitigation before Sentencing, 23 Am. Crim. L. Rev. 207 (1985)
• New Decision Further Clouds Deductibility of Expenses during Administration, 11 Estate Planning 164 (1984)

Editorial Positions

• Series Editor, Law Stories (Foundation Press)
  • Administrative Law Stories (2006) (Peter L. Strauss, ed.)
  • Antitrust Stories (2007) (Eleanor M. Fox & Daniel A. Crane, eds.)
  • Bankruptcy Law Stories (2007) (Robert K. Rasmussen, ed.)
  • Business Tax Stories (2005) (Steven A. Bank & Kirk Stark, eds.)
  • Civil Procedure Stories (2d ed. 2008) (Kevin M. Clermont, ed.)
  • Civil Rights Stories (2008) (Myriam Gilles & Risa Goluboff, eds.)
  • Constitutional Law Stories (2004) (Michael C. Dorf, ed.)
  • Contracts Stories (2007) (Douglas G. Baird, ed.)
  • Corporate Law Stories (2009) (J. Mark Ramseyer, ed.)
  • Criminal Procedure Stories (2006) (Carol S. Steiker, ed.)
  • Death Penalty Stories (2009) (John H. Blume & Jordan Steiker, eds.)
  • Education Law Stories (2007) (Michael Olivas & Ronna G. Schneider, eds.)
  • Employment Discrimination Stories (2006) (Joel W. Friedman, ed.)
  • Employment Law Stories (2007) (Samuel Estreicher & Gillian Lester, eds.)
  • Environmental Law Stories (2005) (Richard Lazarus & Oliver Houck, eds.)
  • Evidence Stories (2006) (Richard Lempert, ed.)
  • Family Law Stories (2007) (Carol A. Sanger, ed.)
  • Gender & Law Stories (forthcoming) (Elizabeth Schneider & Stephanie Wildman, eds.)
  • Human Rights Advocacy Stories (2008) (Deena R. Hurwitz, Margaret Satterthwaite, & Douglas Ford, eds.)
  • Immigration Stories (2005) (Peter H. Schuck & David A. Martin, eds.)
  • Intellectual Property Stories (2006) (Rochelle C. Dreyfuss & Jane C. Ginsburg, eds.)
  • International Law Stories (2007) (Laura Dickerson, Mark Janis, & Paul Noyes, eds.)
  • Labor Law Stories (2005) (Laura J. Cooper & Catherine L. Fisk, eds.)
  • Legal Ethics Stories (2006) (David J. Luban & Deborah L. Rhode, eds.)
  • Presidential Power Stories (2008) (Christopher H. Schroeder & Curtis A. Bradley, eds.)
  • Property Stories (2d ed. 2009) (Gerald Korngold & Andrew P. Morriss, eds.)
  • Race Law Stories (2008) (Rachel Moran & Devon Carbado, eds.)
  • Tax Stories (2d ed. 2009) (Paul L. Caron, ed.)
  • Torts Stories (2004) (Robert L. Rabin & Stephen D. Sugarman, eds.)
  • Trial Stories (2008) (Michael E. Tigar & Angela J. Davis, eds.)
• Series Editor, Graduate Tax Series (LexisNexis)
  • Bankruptcy Taxation (forthcoming), by Frances Hill & William Lyons
  • Civil Tax Procedure (2d ed. 2007), by David Richardson, Jerome Borison, & Steve Johnson
  • Corporate Taxation (forthcoming), by Charlotte Crane & Linda Beale
  • Employee Benefits Law: Qualification Rules and ERISA Requirements (2006), by Kathryn Kennedy & Paul Shultz
  • Federal Tax Accounting (2006), by Michael Lang, Elliott Manning, & Steven Willis
  • Federal Taxation of Property Transactions (forthcoming), by Elliott Manning & David Cameron
  • Partnership Taxation (2d ed. 2008), by Richard Lipton, Paul Carman, Charles Fassler, & Walter Schwidetzky
  • Tax Crimes (forthcoming), by Steve Johnson, Scott Schumacher, Larry Campagna, & John Townsend
  • Tax Practice Ethics (forthcoming), by Linda Galler & Michael Lang
  • United States International Taxation (2008), by Allison Christians, Samuel Donaldson, & Philip Postlewaite
• Editor, Tax Law Abstracts (Social Science Research Network)
  • International & Comparative Tax (with Robert Green)
  • Practitioner Series
  • Tax Law & Policy
• Publisher & Editor-in-Chief, Law Professor Blogs Network  
  • Adjunct Law Prof Blog (Mitchell Rubinstein (St. John's & NYLS))
  • Administrative Law Prof Blog (Ted McClure (Phoenix), Kamina Pinder (John Marshall) & Lisa Tripp (John Marshall))
  • ADR Prof Blog (Andrea Schneider (Marquette), Nancy Welsh (Dickinson), Michael Moffitt (Oregon) & Sarah Rudolph Cole (Ohio State))
  • Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog (D. Daniel Sokol (Florida))
  • Aviation Law Prof Blog (Brian Havel (DePaul) & Michael Jacobs (DePaul))
  • Banking Law Prof Blog (Ann Graham (Texas Tech))
  • Bankruptcy Prof Blog (M. Jonathan Hayes (University of West Los Angeles))
  • Business Law Prof Blog (Dale Oesterle (Ohio State))
  • Career & Professional Development Blog (Susan Gainen (Minnesota) & Mina Jefferson (Cincinnati))
  • Chinese Law Prof Blog (Donald Clarke (George Washington))
  • Civil Procedure Prof Blog (W. Jeremy Counsellor (Baylor) & Rory Ryan (Baylor))
  • Clinical Law Prof Blog (Amy Graham (Michigan State) & Naima Manley (Michigan State))
  • Constitutional Law Prof Blog (Steven Schwinn (John Marshall), Ruthann Robson (CUNY) & Nareissa Smith (Florida Coastal))
  • Contracts Prof Blog (Frank Snyder (Texas-Wesleyan))
  • Crim Prof Blog (Mark Godsey (Cincinnati))
  • Elder Law Prof Blog (Kim Dayton (William Mitchell))
  • Environmental Law Prof Blog (Susan Smith (Willamette))
  • Evidence Prof Blog (Colin Miller (John Marshall-Chicago))
  • Family Law Prof Blog (Barbara Glesner Fines (Missouri-Kansas City))
  • First Amendment Law Prof Blog (Kathleen Bergin (South Texas) & Josie Brown (South Carolina))
  • Food Law Prof Blog (Donna Byrne (William Mitchell))
  • Health Law Prof Blog (Betsy Malloy (Cincinnati))
  • Immigration Prof Blog (Kevin Johnson (UC-Davis), Bill Hing (UC-Davis), Raquel Aklana (UNLV) & Leticia Saucedo (UNLV))
  • International Law Prof Blog (Mark Wojcik (John Marshall) & Cindy Galway Buys (Southern Illinois))
  • Land Use Prof Blog (Paul Boudreaux (Stetson))
  • Law & Development (Tom Ginsburg (Illinois) & Veronica Taylor (U. Washington))
  • Law & Econ Prof Blog
  • Law Librarian Blog (Joe Hodnicki (Butler County Law Library) & Ron Jones (Cincinnati))
  • Law School Academic Support Blog (Rebecca Flanagan (Vermont) & Amy Jarmon (Texas Tech))
  • Law School Innovation (Douglas Berman (Ohio State), Anupam Chander (UC-Davis), Gene Koo (CALI) & Mark Osler (Baylor))
  • Law X,0 (Joe Hodnicki (Butler County Law Library))
  • Legal Profession Blog (Alan Childress (Tulane), Michael Frisch (Georgetown), William Henderson (Indiana) & Jeffrey Lipshaw (Suffolk))
  • Legal Writing Prof Blog (Nancy Soonpaa (Texas Tech), Sue Liemer (Southern Illinois), Coleen Barger (Arkansas) & Mark Wojcik (John Marshall))
  • Leiter's Law School Reports (Brian Leiter (Chicago))
  • Leiter's Legal Philosophy Blog (Brian Leiter (Chicago))
  • M&A Law Prof Blog (Steven Davidoff) (Wayne State))
  • Mass Tort Litigation Blog (Byron Stier (Southwestern), Howard Erichson (Fordham), Alexandra Lafav (UConn), Elizabeth Burch (Florida State) & William Rudenstein (Harvard))
  • Media Law Prof Blog (Cristina Corcos (LSU))
  • Native American Law Prof Blog (Timothy Pleasant (Concord) & Deena DeGenova (Concord))
  • Nonprofit Law Prof Blog (David Brennen (Kentucky) & Darryll Jones (Stetson))
  • Poverty Law Prof Blog (Ezra Rosser (American) & Lowell Hunt (Notre Dame))
  • Products Liability Prof Blog (J. David Prince, Michael Steenson & Kenneth Ross (all of William Mitchell))
  • PropertyProf Blog (D. Benjamin Barros (Widener))
  • Reproductive Rights Prof Blog (Caitlin Borgmann (CUNY))
  • Science & Law Blog (David Faigman (UC-Hastings), David Kaye (Arizona State), Michael Saks (Arizona State), Joseph Sanders (Houston) & Edward Cheng (Brooklyn))
  • Securities Law Prof Blog (Barbara Black (Cincinnati))
  • Sentencing Law and Policy (Douglas Berman (Ohio State))
  • Sexual Orientation and the Law (Sara Benson (Illinois) & Steve Sanders (Mayer Brown, Chicago))
  • Statutory Construction Blog (David Hricik (Mercer))
  • TaxProf Blog (Paul Caron (Cincinnati))
  • Tech Law Prof Blog (Mark Giangrande (DePaul) & Marin Dell (Florida State))
  • TortsProf Blog (William Childs (Western New England), Christopher Robinette (Widener) & Sheila Scheuerman (Charleston))
  • Unincorporated Business Law Prof Blog (Gary Rosin (South Texas))
  • White Collar Crime Prof Blog (Ellen Podgor (Stetson))
  • Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog (Gerry Beyer (Texas Tech))
  • Workplace Prof Blog (Richard Bales (NKU), Jeffrey Hirsch (Tennessee) & Marcia McCormick (Cumberland))

Presentations

• Murphy v. IRS: Another Front in the War Against the Income Tax, Boston College Law School Tax Policy Workshop Series (Apr. 17, 2008)
• Murphy v. IRS: Another Front in the War Against the Income Tax, University of Toronto Faculty of Law, James Hausman Tax Law & Policy Workshop Series (Apr. 9, 2008)
• The Role of Blogs in Twenty-First Century Tax Scholarship and Practice, ABA Tax Section Meeting (Jan. 18, 2008)
• Taking Back the Law School Classroom: Using Technology to Foster Active Student Learning, University of Illinois College of Law (Nov. 30, 2007)
• Law School Rankings: Past, Present, and Future, University of Cincinnati College of Law (Oct. 5, 2007)
• Law School Rankings: Past, Present, and Future, Law School Admission Council Annual Meeting (May 31, 2007)
• Technology in the Law School Classroom, Future of Law Libraries Symposium, Ponte Vedra, FL (Mar. 8, 2007)
• Technology and the Traditional Law Review Structure, Symposium on Writing About the Law: From Bluebook to Blogs and Beyond, New York Law School (Feb. 16, 2007)
• Building and Marketing Your Scholarly Brand, Scholarship and the New Law Professor: Of Blogs, Books, Networks, and the Placement Game, AALS Annual Meeting (Jan. 5, 2007)
• Symposium Introduction: Are Scholars Better Bloggers?, Symposium on Bloggership: How Blogs Are Transforming Legal Scholarship, Harvard Law School (Apr. 28, 2006)
• Ranking Law Schools: Using SSRN to Measure Scholarly Performance, University of Cincinnati College of Law (June 22, 2005)
• Symposium Introduction: Dead Poets and Academic Progenitors, Symposium on The Next Generation of Law School Rankings, Indiana University School of Law (Apr. 15, 2005)
• Ranking Law Schools: Using SSRN to Measure Scholarly Performance, Symposium on The Next Generation of Law School Rankings, Indiana University School of Law (Apr. 15, 2005)
• Taking Back the Law School Classroom: Using Technology to Foster Active Student Learning, Chase College of Law, Northern Kentucky University (Mar. 25, 2005)
• Technology in the Law School Classroom, Future of Law Libraries Symposium, Amelia Island, FL (Mar. 10, 2005)
• Taking Back the Law School Classroom: Using Technology to Foster Active Student Learning, University of San Diego School of Law (June 17, 2004)
• Taking Back the Law School Classroom: Using Technology to Foster Active Student Learning, University of Cincinnati College of Law (Aug. 6, 2003)
• Taking Back the Law School Classroom: Using Technology to Foster Active Student Learning, Florida State University College of Law (June 19, 2003)
• Taking Back the Law School Classroom: Using Technology to Foster Active Student Learning, Boston College Law School (Apr. 7, 2003)
• Tax Stories: What Famous Old Tax Cases Can Tell Us About Today's Tax Law, ABA Tax Section Meeting (May 10, 2003)
• Back to the Future: Teaching Law Through Stories, University of San Diego School of Law (June 19, 2001)
• Back to the Future: Teaching Law Through Stories, University of Cincinnati College of Law (May 30, 2001)
• The Alternative Minimum Tax: The Problem and Possible Solutions, Tax Reform Advisory Committee, Ways and Means Committee, U.S. House of Representatives (Feb. 23, 1998)
• Simplifying the Estate and Gift Tax, Tax Reform Advisory Committee, Ways and Means Committee, U.S. House of Representatives (Mar. 2, 1997)
• The Impact of Tax Reform on Real Estate, Tax Reform Advisory Committee, Ways and Means Committee, U.S. House of Representatives (July 22, 1996)
• Estate and Gift Tax Implications of Tax Reform, Tax Reform Advisory Committee, Ways and Means Committee, U.S. House of Representatives (June 3, 1996)