Visiting Professors
Caron, Cossack, and McCarden Teach at the School of Law The School of Law welcomed three visiting professors during the spring semester. D & L Straus Distinguished Visiting Professor Paul L. Caron, of University of Cincinnati College of Law taught Federal Income Taxation and Federal Estate and Gift Taxation. Distinguished Visiting Practitioner in Residence Roger Cossack, a legal analyst for ESPN, taught Media and the Law for the fourth consecutive year, and visiting associate professor of law Khrista McCarden, a former practitioner at Morgan Lewis in London, England, taught International Tax and Federal Taxation of Business Entities. on the WEB:
Paul Caron is the Charles Hartsock professor of law at University of Cincinnati College of Law. Active in many facets of tax law, Caron is publisher and editor of TaxProf, the most popular tax blog on the Internet, and serves as the publisher and editor-in-chief of the Law Professor Blogs Network of more than 50 blogs edited by law professors around the country. Roger Cossack has been a legal analyst for ESPN since 2002, and has been explaining legal applications to television audiences since 1994 when he worked as a legal analyst on CNN, in addition to being a cohost of Burden of Proof. Having served as a prosecutor and a defense lawyer during his 22 years of practice, Cossack argued U.S. v. Leon before the Supreme Court in 1984. Prior to beginning his private practice, Cossack served on the faculty of UCLA Law School.
Before arriving at Pepperdine, Khrista McCarden practiced with Morgan Lewis in London where she focused on all aspects of international taxation, including corporate, individual, charitable, estate, and trust planning for U.S. persons conducting business or residing abroad. McCarden began her legal career with Latham & Watkins LLP in Los Angeles. She has practiced international tax law in Paris and completed a clerkship in New York with Judge Barrington D. Parker of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Many prominent law professors have served as D & L Straus Distinguished Visiting Professors at Pepperdine including Akhil Amar of Yale Law School, Laurie Levenson of Loyola Law School, Michael D. Green of Wake Forest, and Ellen Pryor of SMU Dedman School of Law. Recent Distinguished Visiting Practitioners in Residence include Mark A. Behrens of Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP, and John G. Malcolm, previously of the Motion Picture Association of America.
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Pepperdine Law Review Symposium Explores the Most Maligned Decisions in Supreme Court History This Pepperdine Law Review symposium brought together some of the nation’s top legal scholars to discuss the most widely criticized decisions in Supreme Court history. Scholars such as Akhil Reed Amar of Yale, Daniel Farber of Berkeley, Erwin Chemerinsky of UC Irvine, and Suzanna Sherry of Vanderbilt debated Erie, Dred Scott, Buck v. Bell, Plessey, and Korematsu. Each symposium presenter articulated exactly why he or she nominated a particular case for the Supreme Court’s “Hall of Shame.” Another
presenter then had the opportunity to redeem the Court’s reasoning or at least put the case in its historical context. Pepperdine’s Ed Larson, University Professor of History and Hugh and Hazel Darling Chair in Law, explained, “The underlying goal of the symposium was not to criticize the failings of the Court over its history, but rather to take a serious and scholarly look at the limits of judicial power and discretion through a historical lens.” In his remarks, Amar presented the idea that these cases could be categorized into an
“anti-canon” of legal history. Legal historians Ted White and Paul Finkelman spoke to the historical context and elaborated on the idea of the anti-canon. White gave a framework on how to identify a “notorious” decision, and explained why he would put Dred Scott, Plessey, and Korematsu in the anti-canon. Finkelman stressed the importance of examining these cases. “Whether you teach history to third graders or third-year law students, you face the question: do you teach a history that is simply patriotic or one that is troubling, one that opens their eyes?”
on the WEB: The event was covered in the Los Angeles Times and on C-SPAN. For more information visit law.pepperdine.edu /supreme-mistakes
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