It's not too late to register for Mini Law School! This 6-week, online-only series will ft. lectures on #SCOTUS's 2022-23 & 2023-24 terms & the important cases before the Court. Register at: tinyurl.com/549ensj9

Approximately 90k words worth of teaching notes, 600 slides, and a very well-worn copy of The Logic of Transfer Taxes later, I finished my last class of federal estate and gift tax of the semester!

Make sure to check out Michigan Law School’s very own Salome Viljoen in conversation with Amanda Parsons about how data creates value and power!

Fellowships For Aspiring Law Professors (2024-25 Edition) bit.ly/3wguCpF

Briefly emerging from parental leave to report that Taxing Novelty (the article formerly known as Taxing Taxonomies) is forthcoming in UC Davis Law Review papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… Revisions to come once I’m back!

Excited to say that my article Deterring Unenforceable Terms will be coming out in the Virginia Law Review. It builds on the great empirical work on unenforceable terms in recent years, focusing on the normative case and policy details for affirmative penalties for contract drafters:

Meet a new law prof: Jonathon Booth (@jbooth_history), incoming at Colorado Law. Welcome ! #newlawprof

Salome Viljoen’s “A Relational Theory of Data Governance” clocking in as the second most-cited article since 2021 🔥🔥🔥 Salome Viljoen Michigan Law School yalelawjournal.org/feature/a-rela…

I have shared this news with many already, but now sharing on here the exciting news that I will join the Colorado Law faculty this fall! Big thanks to all who helped me on this journey! Looking forward to many visitors in Boulder ⛰️☀️ colorado.edu/law/2024/03/04…

this phrase will be enough to anger proponents of wealth taxes or billionaire taxes ... SCOTUS basically says "hey there might be a constitutional problem here," though it does not decide the issue. sometimes flagging an issue is enough to stop legislation. #Moore

Interestingly, the majority seemed to embrace a prudential/consequential approach to interpreting the constitutional taxing powers, reasoning that "the Constitution does not require fiscal calamity"

Briefs thoughts on Moore: 1) tax system not blown up, yay 2) wealth tax probably dead under this court, but was likely politically dead anyway 3) mark-to-market still a maybe? But not if Barrett has anything to do with it

Shout out to my fellow junior tax prof, Alex Zhang, for his cite in Jackson's Moore concurrence!

My article “The Shifting Economic Allegiance of Capital Gains” is officially out in the Florida Tax Review along with a whole line-up of great pieces! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Call for papers for Research Handbook on Critical Tax Studies 🔎 edited by myself and Dominic de Cogan and considered by Edinburgh University Press Deadline: 8 November for abstracts. More info 👇

I'm looking for PhD students to join me in fall 2025 School of Information! I’m particularly focused this cycle on research related to AI regulation, government use of algorithms, and methods for anticipating the impacts of AI systems. The full program details are here: si.umich.edu/programs/phd-i…

Thanks for featuring Salome Viljoen and my article Valuing Social Data!