Bridget J. Crawford
@profbcrawford.bsky.social
I'm a law professor at Pace University who teaches tax, trusts & estates, and other subjects. I study "money law" and gender. Posts in my individual capacity only. Blogger @TheFacultyLounge @RockefellerFoundation Bellagio alum. .. more
I'm a law professor at Pace University who teaches tax, trusts & estates, and other subjects. I study "money law" and gender. Posts in my individual capacity only. Blogger @TheFacultyLounge @RockefellerFoundation Bellagio alum.
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The Faculty Lounge – Conversations about law, culture, and academia
Conversations about law, culture, and academia
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After a temporary hiatus due to migration from Typepad, The Faculty Lounge blog is up and running again! Check it out at thefacultylounge.org
The ABA House of Delegates has approved the Tax Section’s resolution urging all jurisdictions to repeal sales/GST taxes on #menstrual products. Proud to be part of this project & excited to see the work of @egwaldman.bsky.social getting translated into action. #menstruationmatters
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Kim Krawiec
@kimkrawiec.bsky.social
· May 2
Bernstein on semen as a potentially toxic substance
This abstract, with an interesting title, from an always-interesting author, came across my desk recently. Anita Bernstein, Are You There Law? It's Me Semen. Here's the abstract from SSRN: Abstract Jo...
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Anita Bernstein, Are You There Law? It’s Me Semen
Call for Entries: Law Professor Social Media Census 2025 Edition
Help update the 2025 Law Professor Social Media Census, now expanded to include institutional accounts, law-adjacent professionals, and curated Bluesky lists. Submit your info by April 30, 2025.
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#Law #profs, please add yourselves, your schools, your programs to the current social media census up at The Faculty Lounge: www.thefacultylounge.org/2025/04/its-...
New Jersey Appeals Court Denies Unclaimed Property Redemption of Casino Chips
The Superior Court of New Jersey’s Appellate Division found that the state Department of the Treasury’s Unclaimed Property Administration properly denied Keith Hawkins' claim for monetary redemption o...
www.taxnotes.com
For #tax profs building their library of cases on casinos/gambling/definitions of income, NJ rules that unissued chips are not property for purposes of state unclaimed fund act. It’s giving #Zarin: www.taxnotes.com/research/sta...
For folks who follow @thefacultylounge.bsky.social, here are some opportunities to learn from the fab @kimkrawiec.bsky.social in person this spring, at various faculty workshops:
Where are the Women? George Mason Law School & ACTEC Foundation Edition
The Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University has announced (here) that it has received a grant from the ACTEC Foundation, the charitable arm of the American College of Trust and Estate Cou...
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It is discouraging that in 21st century, there are academic conferences/panels in law schools where women are fewer than 10% of all speakers. www.thefacultylounge.org/2025/03/wher... This is not a good look for an org’n I care abt, the ACTEC Foundation, which sponsors great work in Trusts & Estates
Insightful paper from lennartnacke.com et al on human fallibility in detecting AI-generated text: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Roberta Mann (Oregon Law & ATPI) offering closing remarks at #PELRxATPI symposium on “Tax Law, the Environment, and Climate Change,” offering a note of hope on how tax law can be a counterbalance to structures that seek to dismantle environmental progress.
Jeff Gordon, Fellow @ Yale Law School, presenting on universal vs. selective “carrots” / “sticks” deployed in tax frameworks via credits for fuel, hydrogen, electricity. Complex Qs of tech neutrality, counting emissions, carbon accounting, carbon “shelters.” Need for anti-abuse rules. #ecotaxlaw25
“Can Corporate Climate Ratings Catalyze More Sustainable Investment?” At #PELRxATPI Symposium on Tax Law, the Environment, and Climate Change,” Felix Mormann, Jeff Gordon, Steve Hammer, Diana McCutchen leading the discussion at intersection of finance, tax, sustainable development. #EcoTaxLaw25
Professor Heather Payne (OSU Law) presenting her work on “The CCR Blockchain.” Fascinating questions around law’s failure to adequately track byproducts when coal burned to generate electricity. Proposal to use blockchain to track geolocations of where/when coal ash is used in structural fill, etc
Alice Kaswan presenting her work on “Market-Based Mechanisms: Necessary but Insufficient.” Focus on multi-dimensions of clean energy transition, including co-pollution.
Jack Hornickle, Staff Atty at Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University, presenting his work on “Decarbonizing the Farm: New York State Agricultural Tax Assessment Program.” Qs about how to match tax benefits w carbon sequestering capacity on a farm, verify activities.
@kclausing.bsky.social delivering the keynote address at the ATPI/PELR Symposium on Tax Law, the Environment, and Climate Change. Her remarks focus on “International Climate Cooperation After 2024” & need for better incentives for govts to “do big things.” Will require equity on multiple dimensions.
David Weisbach (Chicago Law) presenting work on “Optimal Unilateral Climate Policy.” #PELRx#ATPI #EcoTax25
Wei Cui discussing “output-based pricing systems,” w carbon pricing everywhere but large emitters carved out and priced only when emissions exceed certain threshold. Tax law as environmental law #PELRxATPI #ecotax25
Wei Cui of UBC Allard School of Law presenting his work on “The Retreat of Carbon Pricing in Canada” #PELRxATPI #EcoTax25
Giedre Lideikyte Huber presenting her work on “Taxes and Aviation: A Comparative Constitutional Perspective” #PELRxATPI #EcoTax25
Sven Rudolph presenting his work, “The Rocky Road to … a Truly Sustainable EU Carbon Market.” #PELRxATPI #EcoTax2025
Roberta Mann of U Oregon Law introducing second panel of #PELRxATPI symposium on “Tax Law, the Environment, and Climate Change.” Panelists Sven Rudolph, Giedre Lideikyte Huber, David Weisbach, Wei Cui talking about “Carbon Tax and Other Pricing Proposals.” #EcoTax25
Important framing by Genevieve Tokić that “tax incentives may be functionally equivalent to a direct subsidy, but they can be much more palatable from a political perspective.” #PELRxATPI #EcoTax25
Genevieve Tokić of Northwestern Law presenting her work on “Environmental Tax Incentives: Lessons from the U.S. Inflation Adjustment Act (So Far)” #PELRxATPI #EcoTax25
Economist Neil Mehrotra on “Economic Implications of the Climate Provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act #PELRxATPI #EcoTaxLaw25
Economist Neil Mehrotra reflecting on lack of significant economic effects of Inflation Adjustment Act. Increasing investment in solar + batteries. Anticipated that both sectors will continue to increase.
Excited for the kick off #ATPIxPELR symposium on Tax Law, the Environment, and Climate
Change. First panel on “Climate Change and the Inflation Reduction Act: How We Got Here.” So much of enviro law is tax law. We need lawyers, economists, accountants, policymakers w fluency in both “languages.”
Change. First panel on “Climate Change and the Inflation Reduction Act: How We Got Here.” So much of enviro law is tax law. We need lawyers, economists, accountants, policymakers w fluency in both “languages.”
Why Period Products Aren’t Widely Provided in Schools (Gift Article)
A lawsuit against the New York City Department of Education alleges that not providing free products amounts to discrimination.
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NYC was among the first municipalities to require provision of free #menstrual products in schools. But compliance rates are abysmal. What role for law when law not being observed? www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/w...
Josh Chafetz
@joshchafetz.bsky.social
· Mar 6
With his permission, I'm sharing Dean Treanor's response to Ed Martin's letter:
Who Gets to Own Scotland? (Gift Article)
A new land-reform bill aims to unwind a long history of inequality. But centuries of feudalism are difficult to shake.
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For scholars of property, wealth inequality & more, this article from NYT on patterns of land ownership in Scotland: “[H]alf of all the privately owned rural land in Scotland is controlled by 421 landowners.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/r...
As a T&E prof, one of my favorite pastimes is visiting probate courts in jurisd’ns beyond my local. I was impressed w Multanomah Co (Oregon) Courthouse’s organiz’n, friendly & knowledgable clerks, public accessibility & services. Loved“Customer Service” desk w l deli-style tab/number system.