Steven Lubet

His most recent book is John Brown’s Spy: The Adventurous Life and Tragic Confession of John E. Cook (Yale University Press, 2012).  His other recent books include Fugitive Justice: Runaways, Rescuers, and Slavery on Trial (Harvard University Press, 2010), The Importance of Being Honest: How Lying, Secrecy and Hypocrisy Collide with Truth in Law (NYU Press, 2008), 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 (4th ed., 2009), 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, and which has been cited by numerous courts in over 40 state and federal jurisdictions. 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, as well as in the online journals Slate and Salon. His satirical commentaries have been heard on National Public Radio’s Morning Edition.  He was once interviewed by Stephen Colbert for a segment on The Daily Show (in the early days, before they had famous guests).