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Out with the old, in with the new

My Tax I students from last semester will probably be glad to hear that I have submitted my grades. I am even gladder to reflect on the closely associated fact that I have finished grading their exams.

Grading exams is by far the worst part of a law prof's work - nothing else is even close. The tedium of reading 80-plus answers to the same question, one after the other, and having to keep one's critical faculties engaged enough to scribble down a reasonably fair number at the end, verges on indescribable.

This week, my classes for the spring semester begin. I'm co-teaching Tax Deals with Mihir Desai, and the Tax Policy Colloquium with Alan Auerbach. The former should be a really interesting experience, involving the Scholes-Wolfson framework and lots of actual deals brought in by leading NYC tax practitioners, although it's all coming together a bit at the last minute. The latter I am very hopeful will be good as always (from my biased perspective at least), and our paper schedule for it is as follows:

1. January 15 ? Daniel Shaviro, NYU Law School. ?The Long-Term Fiscal Gap: Is the Main Problem Generational Inequity??
2. January 22 ? Alan Auerbach, Berkeley Economics Department and NYU Law School. ?Understanding U.S. Corporate Tax Losses.?
3. January 29 ? Edward Kleinbard, Joint Committee on Taxation. ?A Reconsideration of Tax Expenditure Analysis.?
4. February 5 ? Amy Finkelstein, MIT Economics Department, ?EZ-Tax: Tax Salience and Tax Rates.?
5. February 12 ? Dorothy Brown, Emory Law School, ?Shades of the American Dream.?
6. February 19 ? Yoram Margalioth, Tel Aviv University Law School and NYU Law School, ?Taking a Closer Look at Capital Export Neutrality.?
7. February 26 ? Leslie McCall, Northwestern University Sociology Department, ?American Policy Preferences in the Era of Rising Inequality.?
8. March 5 ? Michael Doran, University of Virginia Law School, ?Managers, Shareholders, and the Double Corporate Tax.?
9. March 12 ? David Duff, University of Toronto Law School, ?Tax Fairness and the Tax Mix.?
10. March 26 ? Emmanuel Saez, Berkeley Economics Department. ?Details Matter: The Impact of Presentation and Information on the Take-Up of Financial Incentives for Retirement Saving.?
11. April 2 ? Lily Batchelder, NYU Law School.
12. April 9 ? Mihir Desai, Harvard Business School and NYU Law School.
13. April 16 ? Mitchell Kane, NYU Law School.
14. April 23 ? Thomas Brennan, Northwestern Law School, ?Certainty and Uncertainty in the Taxation of Risky Returns.?

All colloquium sessions will meet from 4-6 pm on Thursdays in Furman Hall 120 at NYU Law School. People outside NYU are welcome, although to get past the security guards they should let me know in advance by e-mail. Interested individuals can also contact me to get on our e-mail distribution list for weekly papers.

Full post as published by Start Making Sense on January 12, 2009 (boomark / email).