LinkedLegislation Blog

Following a number of scathing articles over the last few weeks about law school graduates accumulating tremendous debt with few job prospects, the New York Times today published opinions from a variety of legal pundits about reforming law school. Many of the opinions revolved around the theme of increasing experiential... [Read More]

So, while Congress debates whether to raise the debt limit or cause catastrophic damage to the country's economy, we diligently worked on making further improvements in the way we display tax law on tax26.com.  And one of the items that is causing our parsing engine to choke, is Section 139D... [Read More]

A very interesting analysis by Kevin Drawbaugh of Reuters argues that--despite rumblings of reforming the tax code-- negotiations between President Obama and Congress over the debt ceiling are unlikely to make the kind of overhauls called for by the Fiscal Commission (National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform). Drawbaugh notes that there... [Read More]

Professor Annette Nellen generously invited me to write a guest article on her blog about technological changes that can make a difference for tax law.  Nellen is tax professor and Director of the MS Taxation Program at San Jose State University, and a thought leader on reform of tax law and... [Read More]

I was invited to answer the question above at Quora, which touches on a number of themes on this blog. It generated an interesting discussion, and I reproduce my answer here:This Venn diagram explains the most fundamental barrier:If you squint, you might be able to find a couple of intersections, but... [Read More]