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
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the controversy over the legal status of
Alice Goffman
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Goffman wrote ''On th ...
's research methods in her widely acclaimed book, ''On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City''
and support of Supreme Court Justice
Neil Gorsuch
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's speaking at a
President
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Donald J. Trump
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s hotel while cases about the Administration's
trave l ban and "challenging the constitutionality of payments to Mr. Trump’s companies" face the
Supreme Court
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and lower courts.
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"Neil Gorsuch Speech at Trump Hotel Raises Ethical Questions"
''New York Times'', August 17, 2017. Retrieved 2017-08-17.
Lubet is a former juvenile and
criminal defense lawyer
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, and former legal services lawyer.
Books by Lubet
* ''
Interrogating Ethnography
''Interrogating Ethnography: Why Evidence Matters'' is a 2017 book by Steven Lubet of Northwestern University Law School, critiquing methods used in the discipline of ethnography. Writing in ''Contexts'', Syid Ali of Long Island University calle ...
: 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).
References
American legal scholars
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Northwestern University faculty
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