Steven Lubet
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Steven Lubet is a legal scholar and author. Lubet is the Edna B. and Ednyfed H. Williams Memorial Professor of Law at Northwestern University.
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Lubet has been noted for his commentary on controversial issues such as the appointment of scholar Steven Salaita at the University of Illinois,[1] the controversy over the legal status of Alice Goffman's research methods in her widely acclaimed book, On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City[2][3][4] and support of Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch's speaking at a President Donald Trump's hotel while cases about the Administration's travel ban and "challenging the constitutionality of payments to Mr. Trump’s companies" face the Supreme Court and lower courts.[5]
Lubet is a former juvenile and criminal defense lawyer, and former legal services lawyer.[6]
Books by Lubet
- Nothing But the Truth: Why Trial Lawyers Don't, Can't, and Shouldn't Have to Tell the Whole Truth (New York University Press, 2001).
- Murder in Tombstone: The Forgotten Trial of Wyatt Earp (Yale University Press, 2004).
- Lawyers' Poker: 52 Lessons That Lawyers Can Learn From Card Players (Oxford University Press, 2006).
- Fugitive Justice: Runaways, Rescuers, and Slavery on Trial (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010).
- Modern Trial Advocacy: Analysis and Practice (NITA, 2010).
- John Brown’s Spy: The Adventurous Life and Tragic Confession of John E. Cook (Yale University Press, 2012).
- The "Colored Hero" of Harper's Ferry: John Anthony Copeland and the War Against Slavery (Cambridge University Press, 2015).
- Interrogating Ethnography: Why Evidence Matters (Oxford University Press, 2017.)
- The Trials of Rasmea Odeh: How a Palestinian Guerrilla Gained and Lost U.S. Citizenship (George Mason University Press, 2021).
