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TaxSeminar96 is an archive of the 200 plus messages in the Tax-901 seminar from the Fall of 1996 which featured a lecture/discussion by Judge Stephen Swift of the United States Tax Court for law students.

What's in the cooker for 2000

After talking with Professor Hank Lisher at SMU about the level of presentation, I am inclined to shoot for a topic and a level of presentation that would attract the interest of grad tax students as well as experpractitioners.

Here is, more or less, what I circulated to get some in put from the practitioners and professors in the ABA-TAX discussion group

Several years ago Judge Stephen Swift of the Tax Court, adapted some of the materials for his procedures course in the University of Maryland Graduate Tax program, to present a seminar on Tax Court procedures via an ABANET email-based, discussion group. We would like to reactivate this idea here in ABA-TAX to present topics for discussion in the seminar format on bread and butter topics, like the Tax Court presentation.

In the Tax Court presentation the discussion of each unit in the lecture was supported by a panel of professors and practitioners versed in the subject. After each unit was introduced by the discussion leader, Judge Swift, the assignment of the panel was to get the discussion going by sharing their experience and views, asking and answering questions that the Judge, the panelists or any of the other seminar participants may have asked

If you participated before and would like to do so again or are new to this and have some ideas to share, please drop me an email at jdebruyn@debruynPLEASENOSPAM.com indicating your interest, topic and/or discussion leader suggestions.

We are also considering a symposium format where a topic that is more focused, timely and perhaps more debatable topic is presented and explored by a panel of experts via email discussion with other participants, who are following the discussion joining in, with their comments, questions and answers as well.

This format tends to produce a transcript that can be edited into a useful monograph or article on the topic.

In that regard this use of the email discussion group format is a bit like what goes on here in ABA-TAX when an editor or reporter drops into to ask a question and harvest the answers and discussion that follow as part of the background for an article that they are working on for publication.

Again if you have ideas here, please send your comments and suggestions to me at jdebruyn@debruynPLEASENOSPAM.com.

Thanks,

JohnDeBruyn, moderator, ABA-TAX
Lawyer, Denver CO USA