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Steven Lubet
Workplaces:	Northwestern University

Steven Lubet is a legal scholar and author. Lubet is the Edna B. and Ednyfed H. Williams Memorial Professor of Law at Northwestern University.

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 J. Trumps 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

• Interrogating Ethnography: Why Evidence Matters (Oxford University Press, 2017.)
• John Brown’s Spy: The Adventurous Life and Tragic Confession of John E. Cook (Yale University Press, 2012).
• Fugitive Justice: Runaways, Rescuers, and Slavery on Trial (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010).
• Modern Trial Advocacy: Analysis and Practice (NITA, 2010).
• Lawyers' Poker: 52 Lessons That Lawyers Can Learn From Card Players (Oxford University Press, 2006).
• Murder in Tombstone: The Forgotten Trial of Wyatt Earp (Yale University Press, 2004).
• 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).
• The "Colored Hero" of Harper's Ferry: John Anthony Copeland and the War Against Slavery (Cambridge University Press, 2015).

Notes and References

1. News: Lubet. Steven. Professor's tweets about Israel crossed the line. May 29, 2015. Chicago Tribune. August 14, 2014.
2. News: Lubet. Steven. Did This Acclaimed Sociologist Drive the Getaway Car in a Murder Plot?. May 29, 2015. The New Republic. May 27, 2015.
3. News: Lubet. Steven. Review of Ethics on the Run. May 24, 2016. The New Rambler. May 16, 2015.
4. News: Mordfin. Robin. Reviewing with Thought: Eric Posner's New Rambler Review Brings Academic Skills to Bear on Book Reviews. May 24, 2016. University of Chicago. The Record. Fall 2015.
5. Liptak, Adam, "Neil Gorsuch Speech at Trump Hotel Raises Ethical Questions", New York Times, August 17, 2017. Retrieved 2017-08-17.
6. News: Schuessler. Jennifer. Alice Goffman's Heralded Book on Crime Is Disputed. June 12, 2015. New York Times. June 5, 2015.