Steven Lubet

His most recent book is The Importance of Being Honest: How Lying, Secrecy and Hypocrisy Collide with Truth in Law (NYU Press, 2001). He is also the author of 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), and Nothing But the Truth: Why Trial Lawyers Don’t, Can’t, and Shouldn’t Have to Tell the Whole Truth (NYU Press, 2001).

Professor Lubet’s textbook, Modern Trial Advocacy (3nd ed., 2004), has been adopted by over 90 United States law schools, and has been translated or adapted for use in Japan, Canada, Israel, the Republic of China (Taiwan), the People’s Republic of China, and Chile.

Professor Lubet is the coauthor of Judicial Conduct and Ethics (with James Alfini, Charles Geyh, and Jeffrey Shaman), which has been called the nation’s leading authority on judicial ethics. His other books include Evidence in Context, Exercises and Problems in Professional Responsibility, and Problems and Materials in Evidence and Trial Advocacy (all co-authored with Professor Robert Burns); Arbitration Advocacy (coauthored with John Cooley); and Expert Testimony: A Guide for Expert Witnesses and the Lawyers Who Examine Them (coauthored with Elizabeth Boals).

In addition to his scholarly writing, Professor Lubet’s humor and opinion pieces have appeared frequently on the op-ed pages of newspapers such as the Chicago Tribune, New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Baltimore Sun, Philadelphia Inquirer, Newsday, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Dallas Morning News, Atlanta Journal Constitution, Detroit Free Press, and many others. His satirical commentaries have been heard on National Public Radio’s Morning Edition.