Paul is serving as the D & L Straus Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at Pepperdine University School of Law during the Spring 2012 semester.
He presented Occupy the Estate Tax at the AALS Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. at a joint meeting of the AALS Tax Section and AALS Trusts & Estates Section as part of a panel on Should We Tax Inherited Wealth? with Beverly Moran (Vanderbilt) and Rich Schmalbeck (Duke). Also at AALS: Paul was re-elected to a second two-year term on the Board of Directors of CALI (Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction); and he completed his two-year term on the AALS Standing Committee on Libraries and Technology.
Paul published Tax Strategy Patents, 3 Colum. J. Tax L. Tax Matters 1 (2012), which generated invited replies from Ellen Aprill (Loyola-L.A.) and former ABA Tax Section Presidents Dennis B. Drapkin (Jones Day, Dallas) and William M. Paul (Covington & Burling, Washington, D.C.)
Paul published an op-ed on CNN, Romney Surprisingly Ill-Prepared on Tax Issue.
The Law Stories Series of Foundation Press, for which Paul serves as Series Editor, published First Amendment Stories (2011), by Richard W Garnett (Notre Dame) & Andrew Koppelman (Northwestern).
The Graduate Tax Series of LexisNexis, for which Paul serves as Series Editor, published Estate and Gift Taxation (2011), by Robert Danforth (Washington & Lee) & Brant Hellwig (South Carolina).
For the fourth year in a row, Paul’s TaxProf Blog has been named to the ABA Journal’s list of “the 100 best Web sites by lawyers, for lawyers, as chosen by the editors of the ABA Journal.” The ABA’s 2012 Blawg 100 selected Paul’s TaxProfBlog from more than 3,500 blawgs written by law professors and lawyers. Paul’s TaxProf Blog also was named Best Law Professor Blog of 2011 by Dennis Kennedy in his annual “Blawggies” Awards
Paul spoke as part of a panel discussion at UC Law School on Occupy Wall Street and the Creation of the 1% (with Dean Emeritus Joe Tomain and Business School Professor Benjamin Passty).
Paul published several issues of his SSRN Tax Law Abstracts e-journals:
- 19 issues of Tax Law & Policy (vol. 12, nos. 82-100)
- 7 issues of Practitioner Series (vol. 11, nos. 42-48)
- 8 issues of International & Comparative Tax (vol. 11, nos. 34-41)
Paul was quoted in:
- Above the Law, Is Law School Worth It?
- Accounting Today, Tax Court Rules in Favor of TurboTax Defense
- Bloomberg, Romney Plan to Keep Tax Return Private Breaks With Past
- Chronicle of Higher Education, Law School Not Working Out? 2 Professors Propose Paying Students to Drop Out
- The Fiscal Times, Flat Tax Hybrid Plans May Add Trillions to Deficit
- Investor’s Business Daily, ObamaCare a Big Hurdle to Bipartisan Tax Reform