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STEVEN LUBET

2024

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• A Stunning Reversal on Academic Boycotts Is All About Israel, The Hill (Sept. 3, 2024).

• Why Is the New York Times Legitimizing a Holocaust Denier?, The Bulwark (Sept. 10, 2024).

• ‘Sotomayor Rule’ Exposes the Supreme Court’s Porous Ethics Code, The Hill (Sept. 16, 2024).

• Keep on Punching: Why Harris Wants to Debate and Trump Doesn’t, The Hill (Sept. 30, 2024).

• The 1968 DNC Protests Gave Us Nixon. We Don’t Need a 2024 Repeat., The Hill (Aug. 19, 2024).

• Term Limits Aren’t Enough. Expand the Supreme Court., The Hill (Aug. 5, 2024).

• A Long-Game Strategy to Fix Our Broken Supreme Court, The Hill (July 8, 2024).

• Federal Judges Are Mirroring the Supreme Court on Financial Disclosures, The Hill (July 22, 2024).

• The Supreme Court Is Broken. More Justices Can Fix It., The Hill (June 10, 2024).

• Was Clarence Thomas Fooling Us Then or Now?, Daily Beast (June 12, 2024).

• FTC’s Crackdown on Noncompete Clauses Will Help Your Doctor and Your Health, The Hill (June 24, 2024).

• Writers Attacking Pen America Over Israel Are Burning Down Their Own House, The Hill (May 6, 2024).

• A Judge Had a 13-Year-Old Girl Handcuffed for No Reason. A Year Later, He’s Faced Basically No Consequences, Slate (May 8, 2024).

• Unpacking the Absurd and Unethical Boycott of Columbia Graduates, The Hill (May 13, 2024).

• Louisiana Wants the Ten Commandments in Schools but Which Version?, The Hill (May 27, 2024).

• Against the Politicization of Sociology, Chronicle of Higher Education (May 30, 2024).

• Don’t Buy Trump’s Baseless Motion for a New Hush Money Judge, The Hill (Apr. 8, 2024).

• Free Antisemitic Speech Is Still Antisemitic and Indefensible, The Hill (Apr. 22, 2024).

• Which Supreme Court Justices Threw Trump the Immunity Lifeline?, The Hill (Mar. 11, 2024).

• The Supreme Court’s Friendships Are Not Above the Law, The Hill (Mar. 25, 2024).

• Progressive Viewpoint Bias Taints Columbia’s Fight Against Antisemitism, The Hill (Feb. 12, 2024).

• The Medical Gaslighting of Long COVID Patients Could Be Nearing Its End, The Hill (Feb. 26, 2024).

• Let Crystal Clanton Move On, Slate (Feb. 28, 2024).

• The Ballad of Clarence Thomas and ‘Incorruptibility’, The Hill (Jan. 2, 2024).

• Rabid Hate Speech Against Jews Isn’t a Matter of Interpretation, The Hill (Jan. 16, 2024).

• Trump’s Ballot Removal Cases Hinge on These Key Questions, The Hill (Jan. 29, 2024).

2023

Books

• Problems and Materials in Evidence and Trial Advocacy: Vol. II / Problems, 7th ed. (2023) (Co-authored by: Steven Lubet & Richard Moberly).

• Problems and Materials in Evidence and Trial Advocacy: Vol. I / Cases, 7th ed. (2023) (Co-authored by: Steven Lubet & Richard Moberly).

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• What John Roberts Could Learn from Niccolò Machiavelli, Washington Monthly (Dec. 6, 2023).

• Will the Supreme Court’s New Code Make It More or Less Ethical?, The Hill (Dec. 11, 2023).

• The Thomas-Trump Conflict Hiding in Plain Sight, The Hill (Dec. 27, 2023).

• Why This Gift to Clarence Thomas is the Worst, Washington Monthly (Nov. 2, 2023).

• The War of Words Over Gaza Makes the Entire World Less Safe, The Hill (Nov. 13, 2023).

• The Supreme Court’s New Attempt to Combat Its Scandals Is Not Going Well, Slate (Nov. 14, 2023).

• Hypocritical Definitions of ‘Academic Freedom’ Empower Extremists, The Hill (Nov. 27, 2023).

• Can Elena Kagan Save the Supreme Court?, The Hill (Oct. 3, 2023).

• A Shortsighted Idea to End Faculty Tenure Puts Education Last, The Hill (Oct. 16, 2023).

• Amy Coney Barrett’s Call for a SCOTUS Ethics Code Comes with an Exasperating Rider, Slate (Oct. 19, 2023).

• Can the Cross-Examination of Trump’s Accusers Do Him Any Good?, The Hill (Oct. 30, 2023).

• Despite Resistance, Policy Makers Push the Paradigm on ME/CFS and Long COVID, Health Affairs Forefront (Sept. 14, 2023) (Co-authored by: Brian Hughes & David Tuller).

• The Judge Defending Clarence Thomas Has His Own Ethical Conundrum, The Hill (Sept. 5, 2023).

• Clarence Thomas’ Corrected Ethics Disclosure Form Is Not Actually Correct, Slate (Sept. 5, 2023).

• Clarence Thomas’ Defenders Say He’s Just Like Ruth Bader Ginsburg. They're Wrong., Slate (Sept. 12, 2023).

• Alito Wasn’t Bluffing: He Believes the Supreme Court Is Above the Law, The Hill (Sept. 18, 2023).

• Justice Samuel Alito Is Just Begging for Regulations on the Supreme Court, Daily Beast (Sept. 25, 2023).

• It Turns Out John Roberts Was Right About Supreme Court Ethics Rules, Slate (Sept. 27, 2023).

• Opinion: Why Trump’s Bid to Get Rid of Judge Chutkan Was a Lost Cause, CNN.com (Sept. 28, 2023).

• How an Enslaved Blacksmith Had to Enslave His Own Family to Win Their Freedom, Daily Beast (Aug. 4, 2023).

• There Is More Than One Conflict in Trump’s Classified Documents Case, The Hill (Aug. 7, 2023).

• All Supreme Court Ethics Lapses Deserve Scrutiny, Including Sotomayor’s, The Hill (Aug. 22, 2023).

• Opinion: Why Trump’s January 6 Defense Is Even Worse than It Seems, CNN.com (Aug. 28, 2023).

• Death Penalty Opponents Shouldn’t Downplay Mass Shooter’s Antisemitism, Daily Beast (July 5, 2023).

• Hey, Justice Alito: States Don’t Always Know What’s Best for Children, The Hill (July 11, 2023).

• The Grateful Dead and Me, PrawfsBlawg (July 17, 2023).

• One More Reason Why the Court Needs a Code, American Prospect (July 18, 2023).

• The Supreme Court’s Excuses for Ethics Violations Insult Our Intelligence, The Hill (July 25, 2023).

• The Most Shameless Attempt to Audition for Clarence Thomas’ Job Yet, Slate (July 25, 2023).

• Samuel Alito Inadvertently Made the Best Case for Supreme Court Ethics Reform, Slate (July 31, 2023).

• Harlan Crow’s Senate Rejection Could Force the Supreme Court to Address Ethics, The Hill (June 8, 2023).

• Alito, Thomas and the Supreme Court’s Culture of Concealment, The Hill (June 22, 2023).

• Samuel Alito's Revealing Temper Tantrum, American Prospect (June 27, 2023).

• SCOTUS: A ‘Statement of Principles’ Is Not a Code of Conduct, The Hill (May 1, 2023).

• Supreme Court Justices Offer Unconvincing Dodge on Ethics, American Prospect (May 4, 2023).

• How to Fact-Check an Ethnography (Or Anything Else), Contexts (May 9, 2023).

• Opinion: Clarence Thomas Is Running Out of Excuses, CNN (May 10, 2023).

• The Supreme Court’s Recusal Process Is Its Next Ethical Conundrum, The Hill (May 16, 2023).

• Would Growing the House Make It More Efficient? Probably Not, The Hill (May 30, 2023).

• Will the Supreme Court Justices Comply with New Rules on Gift Disclosure?, The Hill (Apr. 5, 2023).

• The Supreme Court Has No Code of Conduct: It’s Starting to Show, The Hill (Apr. 13, 2023).

• This Judge Handcuffed a Child for No Reason. There Will Be No Real Consequences., Slate (Mar. 9, 2023).

• Chaos and Rudeness at Stanford, The Hill (Mar. 21, 2023).

• Attorney Robert Costello May Face Ethics Questions for ‘Hatchet Job’ on Michael Cohen, Law & Crime (Mar. 27, 2023).

• Should Law Students Get Paid for Their Work on Law Reviews?, Washington Monthly (Mar. 27, 2023).

• Amid Questions About Its Legitimacy, the Supreme Court Must Adopt a Code of Conduct, The Hill (Feb. 20, 2022).

• Jan. 6 Panel Transcripts Highlight Attorney Ethics Issues, Law360 (Jan. 23, 2023).

2022

Books

• Evidence in Context: A Trial Evidence Workbook, 6th ed. (2022) (Co-authored by: Robert P. Burns, Richard Moberly & James Seckinger).

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• Drawing the Line Between Terrible Judging and Judicial Misconduct, The Hill (Dec. 15, 2022).

• Cassidy Hutchinson Transcript Reveals New Low for Trump World, The Hill (Dec. 28, 2022).

• Yale’s Perplexing Invitation to Judicial Bullies, The Hill (Nov. 2, 2022).

• The Supreme Court’s Bad History, The Hill (Nov. 16, 2022).

• Yale Law School Needs to Stand Up to This Bullying Judge, Daily Beast (Nov. 18, 2022).

• Is the Supreme Court Turning the Constitution into a Homicide Pact?, The Hill (Nov. 30, 2022).

• Rushdie Attack Births New Anti-Israel Conspiracy Theory, Realclearpolitics (Oct. 1, 2022).

• What Ron DeSantis Doesn’t Understand About Slavery, The Hill (Oct. 6, 2022).

• A Free-Speech Scandal at Berkeley Law, Chronicle of Higher Education (Oct. 12, 2022).

• The Wrong Way to Combat Cancel Culture, The Hill (Oct. 19, 2022).

• Yes, Berkeley Is Silencing Jews, Chronicle of Higher Education (Oct. 24, 2022).

• Antisemitic Conspiracy Theories Are Going Mainstream, Daily Beast (Sept. 3, 2022).

• Against Critical Race Theory Being Taught in Schools? Read This., The Hill (Sept. 6, 2022).

• Nina Totenberg’s Conflict of Interest, The Hill (Sept. 21, 2022).

• The Former U.S. President Who Was More Traitorous Than Trump, NBC News (Sept. 27, 2022).

• Alex Jones’s Well-Deserved Reckoning, The Hill (Aug. 10, 2022).

• University Professors’ Organization Misunderstands the Nature of Antisemitism, The Hill (Aug. 24, 2022).

• Supreme Court Should’ve Looked to Judicial Ethics Rules When Deciding High School Football Field Prayer Case, Law & Crime (July 5, 2022).

• So Much for States’ Rights: Republicans Target Out-of-State Abortions, The Hill (July 13, 2022).

• The Supreme Court’s Selective History, The Hill (July 27, 2022).

• Why Trump Witness Tampering Would Be So Hard to Prove, NBC News (July 31, 2022).

• CUNY Law Faculty’s Problematic Endorsement of Anti-Israel Stance, The Hill (June 1, 2022).

• January 6 and the Dishonor That Will Remain, The Hill (June 14, 2022).

• Why Are Laws So Long and Complicated?, The Hill (June 29, 2022).

• Was Mask Mandate Judge a Hypocrite?, The Hill (May 2, 2022).

• The Politico Leak: It’s Time for Chief Justice Roberts to Take a Look in the Mirror, Law & Crime (May 5, 2022).

• Clarence Thomas Is Right About Declining Respect for the Supreme Court — but Wrong About Its Cause, The Hill (May 18, 2022).

• What Ketanji Brown Jackson Can Teach Clarence Thomas About Judicial Ethics, The Hill (Apr. 5, 2022).

• The 21st Century Courts Act Would Help Restore Public Confidence in the Judiciary, The Hill (Apr. 20, 2022).

• Judge’s Decision to Scrap Mask Mandate Rests on Her Tortured Misreading of One Word, NBC News (Apr. 22, 2022).

• The AAUP Explains Antisemitism and Gets It Wrong, Inside Higher Ed (Apr. 27, 2022) (Co-authored by: Cary Nelson).

• Cowboys Need Healthcare Too, MedPage Today (Apr. 19, 2022) (Co-authored by: David Tuller).

• The Trials of Rasmea Odeh, Part Two -- A Bombing in Jerusalem, Volokh Conspiracy (Mar. 1, 2022).

• The Trials of Rasmea Odeh, Part Three -- Immigration and Indictment, Volokh Conspiracy (Mar. 2, 2022).

• The Trials of Rasmea Odeh, Part Four -- Prosecution and Defense, Volokh Conspiracy (Mar. 3, 2022).

• The Trials of Rasmea Odeh, Part Five -- Did PTSD Make Her Do It?, Volokh Conspiracy (Mar. 4, 2022).

• Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Judicial Superpower: An Appreciation of the Human Consequences of Court Rulings, The Hill (Mar. 9, 2022).

• The Squeaky Wheel of the Boycott Israel Movement, RealClearEducation (Mar. 14, 2022).

• Ted Cruz’s New McCarthyism, The Hill (Mar. 24, 2022).

• The Supreme Court Needs a Code of Ethics, The Hill (Feb. 10, 2022).

• Are University Diversity Staffers Rabid Anti-Semites? A New Report Would Like You to Think So., The Bulwark (Feb. 21, 2022).

• Who’s Most Qualified to Become the Next Supreme Court Justice?, The Hill (Feb. 21, 2022).

• Ketanji Brown Jackson, Biden’s Supreme Court Nominee, Should Sail Through Confirmation, NBC News (Feb. 25, 2022).

• The Trials of Rasmea Odeh, Part One -- Joining the PFLP, Volokh Conspiracy (Feb. 28, 2022).

• The Supreme Court Covid Mask Controversy Is Missing the Point, NBC News (Jan. 23, 2022).

• Another Terrorist Icon Becomes a Cause Célèbre, The Hill (Jan. 26, 2022).

• Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts Gives an Incomplete History Lesson on Judicial Ethics, NBC News (Jan. 4, 2022).

• What the Heritage Foundation Gets Wrong About DEI and Antisemitism, The Forward (Jan. 6, 2022).

• Meet the Palestinian Terrorist Who Lied Her Way Into America, Daily Beast (Jan. 10, 2022).

• Chief Justice Roberts’s Bad Math, The Hill (Jan. 12, 2022).

• There Is No Proof of Rampant Anti-Semitism in University Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Offices, Social Science Space (Jan. 19, 2022).

2021

Books

• The Trials of Rasmea Odeh: How a Palestinian Guerrilla Gained and Lost U.S. Citizenship (2021).

Articles

• Review of “Williams’ Gang: A Notorious Slave Trader and His Cargo of Black Convicts,” by Jeff Forret, 126 American Historical Review 316 (2021).

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• The Fragility of Academic Freedom, The Hill (Dec. 1, 2021).

• Former Law School Faculty Member Elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame as a Player, Faculty Lounge (Dec. 6, 2021).

• A Further Response on the Application of Academic Freedom, Social Science Space (Dec. 8, 2021).

• How American Progressives Normalize Anti-Semitism, The Hill (Dec. 15, 2021).

• Credit Due? Opposing One Form of Institutional Support for an Academic Boycott, Social Science Space (Dec. 20, 2021).

• Are Coaching Conflicts of Interest Ruining College Football?, The Hill (Dec. 29, 2021).

• College Football Coaches and Conflicts of Interest – The Rutgers Problem, Academe Blog (Dec. 30, 2021).

• Anti-Semitism: What It Is, What It Isn’t, and Why It Matters, The Hill (Nov. 3, 2021).

• Gainesville, We Have a Problem, Academe Blog (Nov. 9, 2021).

• When Academic Freedom Proves a One-Way Street, Social Science Space (Nov. 16, 2021).

• Trump Is Learning What Executive Privilege Really Means, The Hill (Nov. 17, 2021).

• On Taking Long COVID Seriously, Social Science Space (Oct. 7, 2021).

• Going Around in Circles with Long COVID, Social Science Space (Oct. 19, 2021).

• A Politicized Supreme Court? That Was the Point, The Hill (Oct. 20, 2021).

• The Contretemps at Yale, RealClearEducation (Oct. 27, 2021).

• The NCAA Business Model and the Inevitable Decline of College Football, Academe Blog (Sept. 14, 2021).

• Ethnography’s Denominator Blues, Social Science Space (Aug. 11, 2021).

• The Judicial Black Box of Supreme Court Recusal, The Hill (Aug. 18, 2021) (Co-authored by: Sarah Lipton-Lubet).

• Delay of British Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Guidelines Is a Setback for People with Long Covid, Stat News (Aug. 22, 2021) (Co-authored by: David Tuller).

• Is the Sunk Cost Fallacy ‘First Doing Harm’ in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome?, Social Science Space (Aug. 25, 2021).

• Is Israel Really a Settler Colonial State?, Ha’aretz (July 5, 2021) (Co-authored by: Jonathan Zasloff).

• Professor Lubet on Misogyny, Homophobia, and Long Covid Denialism, Virology Blog (July 6, 2021).

• The Supreme Court’s Inadequate Recusal Policy, American Prospect (July 7, 2021).

• How Academic Freedom Can Be Used to Silence Others, The Dispatch (June 15, 2021).

• Parsing Fact and Perception in Ethnography, Social Science Space (May 3, 2021).

• It’s a Bigoted Night for a Moondance, Faculty Lounge (May 17, 2021).

• Paradigm Lost: Lessons for Long COVID-19 from a Changing Approach to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Health Affairs Blog (May 18, 2021) (Co-authored by: Brian Hughes & David Tuller).

• Emory Prof. Michael Broyde Thinks Justice Breyer Should Stay on the SCOTUS Bench, but He Is Wrong, Faculty Lounge (May 24, 2021).

• Fear of Listening to Patients: Short-Sighted on Long Covid, Social Science Space (Apr. 6, 2021).

• Finding Fault with Faux Facts, Social Science Space (Apr. 14, 2021).

• Can McMaster University Medical School Psychiatrists Be Trusted to Treat ME/CFS Patients?, Virology Blog (Apr. 19, 2021).

• Ben Carson’s Unfortunate Cornerstone, Tropics of Meta (Apr. 26, 2021).

• Cornel West Is Blaming His Problems on Israel — Again, RealClearEducation (Mar. 3, 2021).

• Georgia’s Gun Laws Are Inadequate to the Task, The Hill (Mar. 29, 2021).

• More on Yale and the Goldwater Rule, Academe Blog (Mar. 29, 2021).

• National Bagel Day, 2021, Faculty Lounge (Feb. 9, 2021).

• Save the University Press of Kansas, Faculty Lounge (Feb. 23, 2021).

• No, It Would Not Be Unconstitutional for Trump’s Impeachment Trial to Take Place After He’s Out of Office, Law & Crime (Jan. 13, 2021) (Co-authored by: Andrew Koppelman).

• That Louie Gohmert Lawsuit, The Hill (Jan. 1, 2021).

• Josh Hawley Is Not the First Missouri Senator with Blood on His Hands, Tropics of Meta (Jan. 13, 2021).

• Republican Senators and Courage, The Hill (Jan. 22, 2021).

• The Seventeenth Amendment and the Censure of Donald Trump, The Hill (Jan. 29, 2021).

2020

Books

• Cranbrooke V. Intellex, Deposition File, Faculty Materials, 4th ed. (2020) (Co-authored by: Robert P. Burns, James H. Seckinger, John T. Baker & Terre Rushton).

• Cranbrooke V. Intellex, Deposition File, Plaintiff’s Materials, 4th ed. (2020) (Co-authored by: Robert P. Burns, James H. Seckinger, John T. Baker & Terre Rushton).

• Modern Trial Advocacy: Analysis And Practice, 6th ed. (2020) (Co-authored by: J.C. Lore).

• Cranbrooke V. Intellex, Case File, Trial Materials, 4th ed. (2020) (Co-authored by: Robert P. Burns, James H. Seckinger, John T. Baker & Terre Rushton).

• Cranbrooke V. Intellex, Deposition File, Defendant’s Materials, 4th ed. (2020) (Co-authored by: Robert P. Burns, James H. Seckinger, John T. Baker & Terre Rushton).

Articles

• The Complicated Legacy of ‘My Old Kentucky Home, Smithsonian Magazine (Co-authored by: Alex Lubet).

• Alan Dershowitz’s Bad History, American Prospect (Jan. 25, 2020).

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• That Op-Ed About Jill Biden Is Awful. Northwestern’s Response Might Be Worse., Chronicle of Higher Education (Dec. 16, 2020) (Co-authored by: Andrew Koppelman).

• Trump’s New Citizenship Test Is Full of Conservative Bias—And Dotted with Mistakes, Politico (Dec. 3, 2020).

• From Border Ruffian to Florida Man: The Evolution of Voter Fraud in American History, Tropics of Meta (Dec. 4, 2020).

• Why Can’t Donald Trump Be More Like Millard Fillmore?, The Hill (Dec. 27, 2020).

• Should Those Who Served the Trump Administration Reluctantly Now Feel Remorse?, The Dispatch (Dec. 28, 2020).

• Censoring Leila Khaled’s Webinars Violated Principles of Academic Freedom, but Sponsors Still Need to Be More Truthful about Her, Academe Blog (Nov. 2, 2020).

• Professor Lubet’s Email Problem and Ours, Academe Blog (Nov. 16, 2020).

• Proposed British Guidelines Reject Useless Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Treatments, Stat (Nov. 17, 2020) (Co-authored by: David Tuller).

• Journalism vs. Ethnography: Checking the Facts, Social Science Space (Nov. 2020).

• Confirmation Bias Is a Helluva Drug, Social Science Space (Nov. 2020).

• Fatigue: An Adventure Story, Virology Blog (Oct. 14, 2020).

• Millard Fillmore’s Fast Track From Presidential Nobody to Racist Pariah, Daily Beast (Sept. 6, 2020).

• Notes on Joseph Epstein’s Teaching Style as Described by Himself in the Wall Street Journal, Academe Blog (Sept. 14, 2020).

• Driving Dixie Down, Faculty Lounge (Sept. 29, 2020).

• Further Thoughts on BDS Pledges and Conflicts of Interest, Part One, Faculty Lounge (Sept. 29, 2020).

• Donald Trump, Wyatt Earp and Police Brutality, The Hill (Aug. 31, 2020).

• Do Professors Have an ‘Obligation’ to Teach In Person When Classes Begin?, Faculty Lounge (July 15, 2020).

• Chronic Fatigue Syndrome May Hold Keys to Understanding Post-Covid Syndrome, Stat (July 21, 2020) (Co-authored by: David Tuller).

• Who Wrote Trump’s Census Memorandum?, Faculty Lounge (July 22, 2020).

• The Dean of BDS, The Bulwark (June 29, 2020).

• The Virtue of Checking Documentation: You Never Know What You Will Find, Social Science Space (June 3, 2020).

• Today is Juneteenth; Tomorrow is World Refugee Day, Faculty Lounge (June 19, 2020).

• The Dylan Code, Faculty Lounge (June 22, 2020).

• Is the Roberts Court Going to Let Coronavirus Kill Us?, Just Security (Apr. 17, 2020) (Co-authored by: Andrew M. Koppelman).

• More News from Berkeley, ca 1970, Faculty Lounge (Mar. 10, 2020).

• SCOTUS Should Cancel Oral Arguments, Not Just Postpone Them (Probably), Faculty Lounge (Mar. 17, 2020).

• Seeking Judicial Courtesy in the Fifth Circuit, Faculty Lounge (Mar. 23, 2020).

• Cross Examining Richard Epstein, Faculty Lounge (Mar. 31, 2020).

• Some Citations Are Not Picked Up by Hein OnLine, Faculty Lounge (Feb. 5, 2020).

• Should Pete Rose Be Reinstated, Faculty Lounge (Feb. 12, 2020).

• A Dean Ruder Story, Faculty Lounge (Feb. 17, 2020).

• A Better Way to Remember the Titans, Academe Blog (Jan. 7, 2020).

• Prof. Joan Wallach Scott Mischaracterizes Pres. Trump’s Executive Order on Anti-Semitism, Faculty Lounge (Jan. 13, 2020).

2019

Articles

• The Conservative Legal Community Is Grasping at Straws to Defend Donald Trump, American Prospect (Nov. 11, 2019).

• How Do You Solve a Problem Like Subpoenas?, 34 Sociological Forum 774 (2019).

• Elusive Utopia: The Struggle for Racial Equality in Oberlin, Ohio by Gary J. Kornblith and Carol Lasser (book review), 50 Journal of Interdisciplinary History 295 (2019).

• The Real Trouble with Emoluments, American Prospect (Sept. 19, 2019) (Co-authored by: Andrew Koppelman).

• Why Won’t John Roberts Accept an Ethics Code for Supreme Court Justices?, Slate (Jan. 16, 2019).

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• Jeremy Corbyn’s Anti-Semitism is a Feature Not a Flaw, Faculty Lounge.

• The BMJ Still Declines to Retract the Flawed ‘Lightning Process’ Study, Faculty Lounge.

• When a Chief Justice Reminded Senators in an Impeachment Trial That They Were Not Jurors, Conversation.

• RBG on the BBC, Faculty Lounge (Dec. 18, 2019).

• Commentary: US Senate Has Huge Powers and Responsibilities in Impeachment Trial, Channel News Asia (Dec. 19. 2019).

• Fourth Annual Christmas Movie Review: Uncut Gems, Faculty Lounge (Dec. 26, 2019).

• Further Thoughts on the Bernie Sanders Anti-Semitism Oped, Faculty Lounge (Nov. 18, 2019).

• Could Justice Thomas Substitute for Justice Roberts in an Impeachment Trial of President Trump?, Faculty Lounge (Nov. 19, 2019).

• How to Influence People, New Rambler Review.

• The Bernie Sanders Oped on ‘How to Fight Anti-Semitism, Faculty Lounge (Nov. 13, 2019).

• Can a State Abolish the Insanity Defense?, Faculty Lounge (Oct. 7, 2019).

• Path-Takers and Way-Makers, New Rambler Review (Oct. 7, 2019).

• Trump, Gowdy, and Giuliani, Faculty Lounge (Oct. 14, 2019).

• Have You No Sense of Decency, Faculty Lounge (Oct. 23, 2019).

• Is It Ethical for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to Accept a $1 Million Prize? Yes, but it’s Hard to Explain, The Conversation (Oct. 29, 2019).

• Steal This Archive, Faculty Lounge (Oct. 29, 2019).

• The End of Football?, Faculty Lounge (Sept. 3, 2019).

• What Farhad Manjoo Got Wrong about Tucker Carlson, Faculty Lounge (Sept. 23, 2019).

• Legal Acumen’ Is an Overrated Quality for Judges, Faculty Loung (July 10, 2019).

• Do the Editors at BMJ Archives of Disease in Childhood Care about Conflicts of Interest?, Faculty Lounge (July 22, 2019).

• Another Reason That History Favors Trump's Reelection, Faculty Lounge (July 30, 2019).

• Racist Memes and Caricatures, Faculty Lounge (Aug. 12, 2019).

• Should Philosophers Sign Petitions or Open Letters?, Faculty Lounge (Aug. 15, 2019).

• It’s Time to End Life Tenure on the Supreme Court, The Faculty Lounge (July 9, 2019).

• The Protocols of the Euphemisms of Zion, The Bulwark (July 15, 2019).

• Leon Redbone, Fact Checking, and Ethnography, Social Science Space (June 10, 2019).

• Why Reducing Law School Debt Will Not Increase Public Interest Work, Academe Blog (June 17, 2019).

• Commentary: Steven Salaita, Rejected by U. of I. Over Israel Tweets, Seems to Have Found Peace — Driving a School Bus, Chicago Tribune (Mar. 6, 2019).

• It’s High Time We Killed the College Admissions Essay, Daily Beast (Mar. 23, 2019).

2018

Articles

• Anti-Semitism Has Consequences, American Prospect (Nov. 5, 2018).

• What to Do About Professors Who Refuse to Offer Recommendations to Students Who Want to Study in Israel, Slate (Oct. 16, 2018).

• Law Review vs. Peer Review: A Qualified Defense of Student Editors, 2017 University of Illinois Law Review Online 1 (Jul. 26, 2017).

• An Encouraging Story About Falsehood, American Prospect (Aug. 20, 2018) (Co-authored by: Robert B. Clarke).

• The Gawker Case Has Become More Interesting, The American Prospect (Jun. 14, 2018).

• Why the Mueller Investigation Is Constitutional, The American Prospect (May 30, 2018) (Co-authored by: Andrew Koppelman).

• My Disarming Jewish Encounter with the Deep South, The Forward (May 17, 2018).

• The Plight of University Presses, Academe Magazine (Apr. 20, 2018).

• If Michael Cohen Is Telling the Truth About His Stormy Daniels Payment, He Could Be Disbarred, Slate (Mar. 10, 2018).

• MESA’s Fresno State Conspiracy Theory, Jewish Currents (Mar. 17, 2018).

• How a Turf War at Fresno State Turned Into an Anti-Zionist Witch Hunt, The Forward (Feb. 14, 2018).

• Interrogating Ethnography Conference, Panel Discussion: Author Meets Critic, 13 Northwestern Journal of Law and Social Policy 108 (2018) (Co-authored by: Gary Alan Fine, Philip Cohen, Colin Jerolmack, Shamus Khan, & Mary Pattillo).

• Anti-Semitic Faculty: What Is to Be Done?, Jewish Currents (Jan. 10, 2018).

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• Commentary: What Does It Take to Get a Second Chance?, Chicago Tribune (Oct. 25, 2018).

• Anti-Slavery Heroes Charles Langston and Simeon Bushnell Deserve Pardons Too, President Trump, CONVERSATION (July 5, 2018).

• The Medical Community Is Changing Its Mind on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Why Aren’t Insurers?, STAT (July 19, 2018).

• Trump’s Views on Due Process Are Straight out of Slavery, DAILY BEAST (July 27, 2018) (Co-authored by: H. Robert Baker).

• Can Trump Commit Treason and Get Away with It?, THE DAILY BEAST (Jun. 11, 2018).

• On Juneteenth, Let’s Commit to Ending Separation of Parents and Children at the Border, CNN.com (Jun. 19, 2018).

• The Backstory of the Perfect Royal Wedding Song, CNN.com (May 22, 2018) (Co-authored by: Alex Lubet).

• Gun-Toting Congressman Is Right. He’s No Gabby Giffords, CNN.com (Apr. 8, 2018).

• When Presidents Lawyer Up: A Brief History, The Conversation (Apr. 11, 2018).

• Crowdfunding David Tuller Is Not a Conflict of Interest, Virology Blog (Apr. 16, 2018).

• Commentary: What Liberals Miss About the Second Amendment, Chicago Tribune (Feb. 20, 2018).

• Are Ethnographers Ever Wrong?, SOCIAL SCIENCE SPACE (Feb. 28, 2018).

• Commentary: How Do We Curb Racism and Anti-Semitism — and Protect Free Speech?, Chicago Tribune (Jan. 14, 2018).

2017

Books

• Evidence In Context: A Trial Evidence Workbook, 5th ed. (National Institute for Trial Advocacy 2017) (Co-authored by: Robert P. Burns, & Richard Moberly).

• Problems and Materials In Evidence and Trial Advocacy (vol. I): Cases, 6th ed. (National Institute for Trial Advocacy 2017) (Co-authored by: Robert P. Burns, & Richard Moberly).

• Problems and Materials In Evidence and Trial Advocacy (vol. II): Problems, 6th ed. (National Institute for Trial Advocacy 2017) (Co-authored by: Robert P. Burns, & Richard Moberly).

Articles

• Is a Dubious ‘Brain Health’ Quiz Stoking Alzheimer’s Anxiety to Lure Patients?, Undark Magazine (Aug. 18, 2017) republished at “Are You at Risk of Alzheimer’s?,” SLATE (Aug. 22, 2017).

• Burning with Suspense, The New Rambler Review (Aug. 14, 2017).

• Defense of the PACE Trial Is Based on Argumentation Fallacies, Journal of Health Psychology (Jun. 14, 2017).

• Fresno State Professors Must Stop Pushing Anti-Israel Conspiracy Theories, The Forward (Jun. 20, 2017).

• In Defense of Kellyanne Conway, Slate (Feb. 27 2017).

• Investigator Bias and the PACE Trial, Journal of Health Psychology (2017).

• Alito and the Code, Slate (Mar. 14, 2017).

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• Commentary: Can Meghan Markle Ace England’s Arcane Citizenship Test?, Chicago Tribune (Dec. 7, 2017).

• The First Thing We Do, Let’s Blame All the Lawyers, Chicago Tribune (Oct. 20, 2017).

• Why Neo-Confederate Claims about Black Slaveholders Are So Misleading, Tropics of Meta (Sept. 7, 2017).

• Why Trump Is Wrong to Equate George Washington with Robert E. Lee, Chicago Tribune (Aug. 21, 2017) (Co-authored by: Alfred Brophy).

• How Much Longer Can Decent People Serve in Trump’s Cabinet?, CNN.com (Aug. 16, 2017).

• Commentary: Steven Salaita's Exile from Academia: 'I Refuse to Tolerate the Indignities of a Blacklist', Chicago Tribune (Jul. 27, 2017).

• Justice Gorsuch Can Forget About Ethics Code for Court Now, CNN.com (Apr. 15, 2017).

• How a Study About Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Was Doctored, Adding to Pain and Stigma, The Conversation (Mar. 22, 2017).

• Does Jason Chaffetz Understand His Job?, CNN.com (Feb. 11, 2017) (Co-authored by: Andrew Koppelman).

2016

Books

• Cranbrooke V. Intellex: INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION VERSION, 3rd ed. (National Institute for Trial Advocacy 2016) (Co-authored by: Robert P. Burns, John T. Baker, Terre Rushton, and Jim H. Seckinger).

Articles

• Langston Hughes’s Shawl: Our Objects Tell Amazing Stories, Not All of Them True, 37 Humanities No. 3 (Summer 2016) (Co-authored by: Rachel Maines).

• Why Isn’t Trump Using the Law to Back Up His Mouth?, The New Republic (Jun. 6, 2016) (Co-authored by: Charles Gardner Geyh).

• Court Rightly Embraced a ‘Living’ Constitution in Death Penalty Case, The National Law Journal (Jun. 27, 2016).

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• In Defense of Judge Turner (sort of), Chicago Tribune (Aug. 22, 2016).

• Bernie or Bust? The Lesson of 1968, CNN.com (May 24, 2016) (Co-authored by: Jim Bendat).

• Here’s Betting That a Computer Can’t Play Poker, Chicago Tribune (April 7, 2016).

• Move Forward on Filling Scalia’s Supreme Court Seat, Chicago Tribune (Feb. 16, 2016).

• Ted Cruz Must Recuse Himself on Scalia Replacement, CNN.com (Feb. 15, 2016).

2015

Books

• The “colored Hero” Of Harper’s Ferry: John Anthony Copeland And The War Against Slavery (Cambridge University Press 2015).

• Modern Trial Advocacy, 5th ed. (2015) (Co-authored by: J.C. Lore).

• CRANBROOKE V. INTELLEX: CASE FILE, 3rd ed. (NITA 2015) (Co-authored by: Robert P. Burns, John T. Baker, Terre Rushton, & James H. Seckinger).

Articles

• Strength in "Ober-Litionism", Slate (September 22, 2015).

• I Sued the Grateful Dead, Slate (June 4, 2015).

• Let Us Pour Some Cold Water on That California Sunshine, Chicago Tribune (Apr. 6, 2015).

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• Ethnography on Trial, The New Republic (July 15, 2015).

• Alice Goffman’s Denial of Murder Conspiracy Raises Even More Questions, The New Republic (June 3, 2015).

• Did This Acclaimed Sociologist Drive the Getaway Car in a Murder Plot?, The New Republic (May 27, 2015).

• Pamela Geller Is Not ‘Morally Responsible’ for the Terrorist Attack in Texas, The New Republic (May 7, 2015).

• Ethics on the Run, The New Rambler (May 26, 2015).

2014

Articles

• Stupid Juror Questions?, 37 American Journal of Trial Advocacy 315-337 (2013) (Co-authored by: Kevin Chang).

• Stonewalling, Leaks, and Counter-Leaks: SCOTUS Ethics in the Wake of NFIB v. Sebelius, 47 Valparaiso University Law Review 883-905 (2013) (Co-authored by: Clare Diegel).

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• Scalia’s Torture Debacle: Why the Right Scarily Keeps Missing the Point, Salon (Dec. 16, 2014).

• Professor’s Tweets about Israel Crossed the Line, Chicago Tribune (August 14, 2014).

2013

Books

• Judicial Conduct and Ethics, 5th edition (LexisNexis 2013) (Co-authored by: Jeffrey M. Shaman, and James J. Alfini).

Articles

• Ted Cruz’s Ironic Birther Predicament, Salon.com (August 22, 2013).

• What If We Demanded Ted Cruz’s Papers?, Salon.com (June 19, 2013).

• Execution in Virginia, 1859: The Trials of Green and Copeland, 91 North Carolina Law Review 1785-1815 (2013).

• Clarence Darrow, Neuroscientist: What Trial Lawyers Can Learn From Decision Science, 36 American Journal of Trial Advocacy 61 (2012) (Co-authored by: Sara Whitaker).

Working Papers

• Stupid Juror Questions? (Co-authored by: Kevin Chang).

2012

Books

• John Brown’s Spy: The Adventurous Life and Tragic Confession of John E. Cook (Yale University Press 2012).

Articles

• Escape from Harper’s Ferry, North & South (October 2012).

• Review of Abraham Lincoln, Esq.: The Legal Career of American's Greatest President, 78 Journal of Southern History 172 (February 2012).

• The Oberlin Fugitive Slave Rescue: A Victory for the Higher Law, North & South (April 2011).

Working Papers

• Stonewalling, Leaks, and Counter-Leaks: SCOTUS Ethics in the Wake of NFIB v. Sebelius (Co-authored by: Clare Diegel).

• Execution in Virginia, 1859: The Trials of Green and Copeland.

2011

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• Haley Barbour, Slavery and the Citizenship Test, Salon (March 29, 2011).

Working Papers

• The Oberlin Fugitive Slave Rescue: A Victory for the Higher Law.

2010

Books

• Fugitive Justice: Runaways, Rescuers, and Slavery on Trial (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2010).

• Problems and Materials in Evidence and Trial Advocacy, 5th edition (NITA/LexisNexis 2010) (Co-authored by: Robert Burns ).

• Evidence In Context, 4th edition (NITA/LexisNexis 2010) (Co-authored by: Robert Burns ).

• Modern Trial Advocacy: Analysis and Practice (NITA 2010).

Articles

• Why the Dreyfus Affair Does and Doesn’t Matter , 13 Green Bag 2d 329-342 (2010).

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• Let the Justices Be the Judge, Chicago Tribune (October 27, 2010).

2009

Books

• Cranbrooke V. Intellex, 2nd edition (National Institute for Trial Advocacy 2009) (Co-authored by: Robert Burns et al. ).

• Expert Testimony: A Guide for Expert Witnesses and the Lawyers Who Examine Them, 2nd edition (National Institute for Trial Advocacy 2009) (Co-authored by: Elizabeth I. Boals ).

• Cranbrooke V. Intellex: Problems and Case File, 2nd edition (National Institute for Trial Advocacy 2009) (Co-authored by: Robert Burns).

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• Remembering the Roots of a Real Civil War , Salon (October 16, 2009 ).

2008

Books

• The Importance of Being Honest: How Lying, Secrecy, And Hypocrisy Collide With Truth In Law (NYU Press 2008).

Articles

• Judicial Campaign Speech and the Third Law of Motion, 22 Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy 425-434 (2008).

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• Sitting Across the Table from an Archenemy, Chicago Tribune (September 30, 2008).

• On Israel, Obama Has Taken a Stand, Chicago Tribune (March 5, 2008).

2007

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• Cutting Choices , American Lawyer (November 1, 2007).

• The Disreputer , American Lawyer (September 1, 2007).

• Shut Up! No, You Shut Up!, Legal Times (June 18, 2007).

• Ant-size Loopholes Can Produce Big Problems, Chicago Tribune (June 11, 2007).

• Civility Deposed, San Francisco Recorder (June 22, 2007).

• Welcome to Obidas!, New York Times (July 23, 2007).

• We Loved Obidas (Or Was It Omylas?), International Herald Tribune (July 23, 2007).

• Bare Facts, American Lawyer (July 2007).

• Law Students Gone Wild, Legal Times (July 16, 2007).

• Above It All , American Lawyer (May 2007).

• Do We Need to See Her Face? , Legal Times (April 2, 2007).

• Flag Protesters Missing a Point , Chicago Tribune (March 23, 2007).

• Veiled Truth , American Lawyer (March 2007).

• When Does a Muslim Veil Become a Poker Face?, Chicago Sun-times (March 11, 2007).

• I Made the Government Admit It Was Wrong , Salon (February 21, 2007).

• The Citizenship Test: New, Improved and Wrong , Salon (January 3, 2007 ).

• Stewart’s Sanctimony: Despite Her Proclamations From the Courthouse Steps, Lynne Stewart is No Martyr , American Lawyer (January 2007).

2006

Books

• Lawyers' Poker: 52 Lessons That Lawyers Can Learn From Card Players (Oxford University Press 2006).

• Modern Trial Advocacy (People’s Republic of China Edition).

Articles

• In Facetiis Verititas: How Improvisational Comedy Can Help Trial Lawyers Get Some Chops , 7 Texas Review of Entertainment & Sports Law 1-13 (2006) (Co-authored by: Thomas Hankinson ).

• The Inciting Incident , Litigation (Fall 2006).

• The Triage Trilemma , 34 Hofstra Law Review 673-687 (2006).

• Tilt, 58 Maine Law Review 129-133 (2006).

• Lesson 7: Overplaying, 9 Green Bag 243-245 (2006).

• A Series of Reviews of Eat What You Kill by Milton C. Regan, Jr. - False Flats, 19 Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics 275-280 (2006).

• Trial Theory and Blind Poetics, 100 Northwestern University Law Review 295-302 (2006).

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• We Can’t Vote on Science , Legal Times (November 27, 2006).

• People for Pluto , American Lawyer (November 1, 2006).

• Why Judges Acquit , The American Lawyer (September 2006).

• Use Pluto’s Dwarf Status to Think Big, Newsday (August 28, 2006) (Co-authored by: Jeffrey Mallow).

• Wrong Lessons, Philadelphia Inquirer (August 28, 2006) (Co-authored by: Jeffrey Mallow).

• Kids Lobbying for Pluto Sends Wrong Message on Science, Chicago Sun Times (August 27, 2006) (Co-authored by: Jeffrey Mallow).

• Pitting Secular Law and 'Higher Law' Woman Misuses Sanctuary Tradition, Chicago Tribune (August 22, 2006) (Co-authored by: Jeffrey Mallow).

• Our Sacrifice to Themis, Legal Times (July 17, 2006).

• Practicing Law is a Lot Like Playing Cards: Both Require Tactical Decision Making in the Face of Uncertainty, American Lawyer (May 2006).

• WBEZ Has Air Time to Fill? Tune in on the Canadians, Chicago Sun-times (May 15, 2006).

• McKinney v. Capitol Police: Who'll Blink First?, Chicago Tribune (April 5, 2006).

• Rep. McKinney Uses Poker Strategy as Defense, Memphis Commercial Appeal (April 5, 2006).

• Cougar Spotting, American Lawyer (March 2006).

• On Alito: Oh, Those Woebegone Democrats, Chicago Tribune (February 1, 2006).

• The Alito Confirmation; How Democrats Lost the Political Battle, San Diego Tribune (February 1, 2006).

• Making the Calls: Neutrality Counts for Both Umps and Supreme Court Justices-but It Doesn't Hurt that They Know Their Decisions are Final, American Lawyer (January 2006).

2005

Articles

• Sidebar: The Game Is Lawyer’s Poker, 32 Litigation 59 (Fall 2005).

• Celebrity Trials, American Heritage (October 2005).

• Improper Advances: Talking Dream Jobs With the Judge Out of Court, Slate (August 17, 2005) (Co-authored by: Stephen Gillers, and David Luban).

• Wyatt Earp on Trial: How Cross Examination Really Won the West, 31 Litigation 51-54 (2005).

• The Importance of Being Honest, 8 Green Bag 2d 163-171 (2005).

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• A Man of Integrity, Chicago Tribune (November 18, 2005) (Co-authored by: David McGowan).

• Judicial Temperament, Baltimore Sun (November 28, 2005) (Co-authored by: David McGowan).

• A Chicago Story, American Lawyer (November 2005).

• They Lived Happily Ever After, Legal Times (November 14, 2005).

• Godly vs. Secular, American Lawyer (September 2005).

• Roberts' Bad Decision, Los Angeles Times (September 13, 2005) (Co-authored by: Stephen Gillers and David Luban).

• Reinventing the Slippery Slope-For Karl, Chicago Tribune (July 28, 2005) .

• Independent, Yes; Moderate, Not Really, Chicago Tribune (July 3, 2005) .

• Faith, Hope, and Lawyering: An Appreciation of Murdered Attorney Mike Lefko, Whose Life Proved that Liberalism and Devotion Can Peacefully Coexist, American Lawyer (May, 2005).

• Cops on Trial: Why Murder Cases Fail, National Law Journal (April 25, 2005).

• The Politics of Blinking First, Chicago Tribune (April 24, 2005) .

• The Nuclear Option: With a Hand Like This, Dems Need to Lower the Stakes, San Francisco Chronicle (April 26, 2005) .

• Misplaying the Filibuster, Boston Globe (April 26, 2005) .

• Democrats Misplay Cards in High Stakes Filibuster Fight, Baltimore Sun (April 29, 2005) .

• Artificial Intelligence: Law School Tests and Bar Exams Reward Skills that are Largely Disconnected from Everyday Lawyering, American Lawyer (March 2005).

• Why Dems Should Fight Hard for the Arnold Amendment, Chicago Tribune (February 23, 2005).

• Three Reasons to Join the 'Arnold Amendment' Bandwagon, Philadelphia Inquirer (February 25, 2005).

• A Liberal Case for Chief Justice Scalia, Newsday (January 3, 2005).

• Hasta la Vista, Electors, American Lawyer (January 2005).

2004

Books

• Problems and Materials in Evidence and Trial Advocacy, 4th edition (NITA 2004) (Co-authored by: Robert Burns).

• Evidence In Context: A Trial Evidence Workbook, 3rd edition (NITA 2004) (Co-authored by: Robert Burns, and James Seckinger).

• Evidence In Context: Teacher's Manual, 3rd edition (NITA 2004) (Co-authored by: Robert Burns, and James Seckinger).

• Modern Trial Advocacy, 3rd edition (National Institute for Trial Advocacy 2004).

• Arbitration Advocacy, 2nd edition (NITA 2004) (Co-authored by: John W. Cooley).

• Murder in Tombstone: The Forgotten Trial of Wyatt Earp (Yale University Press 2004).

Articles

• Lawyers' Poker, 53 Defense Law Journal 533-562 (2004).

• Flagging Responses, The American Legion Magazine (July 2004).

• Toward Purposeful Dissent: Liberal Professor Believes Flag Amendment Hurts No One, The American Legion Magazine (June 2004).

• Division of Authority Between Attorney and Client: The Case of the Benevolent Otolaryngologist, 2003 University of Illinois Law Review 1275-1297 (Co-authored by: Robert P. Burns).

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• No Sinister Liberal Scheme on Campus, Baltimore Sun (December 29, 2004) .

• Conservatives Complain About Campus Shut-Outs, Detroit Free Press (December 21, 2004) .

• Campus Diversity: No Conspiracies Behind Faculties' Lean to the Left, Atlanta Journal Constitution (December 7, 2004) .

• Why Republicans Shun Ivory Towers, San Francisco Chronicle (December 2, 2004) .

• Nothing Sinister About Liberal Campuses, Minneapolis Star Tribune (December 1, 2004) .

• Does It Take Liberal Thoughts In Order to Teach at University Level, Chicago Tribune (November 30, 2004) .

• The Clinton Miscalculus: If the President Had Trusted His Lawyer, History Itself Might Be Different, American Lawyer (November 1, 2004).

• Marshal Law, The American Lawyer (October 1, 2004).

• Dispiriting the Law, American Lawyer (August 2004) .

• The Money We Don't Earn, Legal Times (August 2, 2004) .

• Railroaded, San Francisco Recorder (August 6, 2004) .

• Exorbitant Fees, for Precious Little Work, Give Justice a Bad Name, Chicago Tribune (August 8, 2004) .

• Lack of Regard Shown for Israel's Security Concerns, Chicago Tribune (July 13, 2004) .

• Judgment on the Wall: Court Ignores Israel's Security, San Francisco Chronicle (July 14, 2004) .

• In Ruling on Barrier, the U.N. International Court Ignores the Basic Need of Security, Detroit Free Press (July 13, 2004) .

• When Judges Investigate Judges, Chicago Tribune (June 3, 2004) .

• An Examination of Judicial Conduct, San Diego Tribune (June 8, 2004) .

• Oyez, O Muse, American Lawyer (June 1, 2004) .

• Martha Stewart's Makeover, San Francisco Recorder (June 4, 2004) .

• Virtue Is Its Own Reward, American Lawyer (April 2004).

• In One Key Area (the Chief) Justice is Indeed Blind, Los Angeles Times (March 19, 2004) (Co-authored by: Erwin Chemerinsky) .

• Flagging Responses: In Which the Writer Replies to His Readers about Patriotism, Liberalism, and Pragmatism, American Lawyer (February 2004).

• Justice Compromised, Baltimore Sun (February 2, 2004) .

• Perspectives on Same Sex Marriage: An Amendment that Would Freeze the Will of the People, San Francisco Chronicle (February 10, 2004) (Co-authored by: Andrew Koppelman) .

• When the Vacation Gets Tricky: Should Scalia and Cheney Have Gone Duck Hunting Together?, Chicago Tribune (January 27, 2004) .

2003

Books

• Modern Trial Advocacy: Analysis and Practice has been published in Chinese (Business Weekly Publications) .

Articles

• Lawyers' Poker, 57 University of Miami Law Review 283-310 (2003).

• Slavery on Trial: The Case of the Oberlin Rescue, 54 Alabama Law Review 785-829 (2003).

• Like a Surgeon, 88 Cornell Law Review 1178-1197 (2003).

• Showing Your Hand: A Counter-Intuitive Strategy for Deposition Defense, 29 Litigation 38-40, 67 (Winter 2003).

• Political Activities of Supreme Court Spouses, 18 Virginia Journal of Law & Politics 635-642 (2002).

• Document Destruction After Arthur Andersen: Is It Still Housekeeping or Is It a Crime?, 4 Journal of Appellate Practice And Process 323 (2002).

• Poker Courtroom: What Lawyers Can Learn from Card Players, 6 Green Bag 2d 203-213 (2003).

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• Picking Your Fights; The Liberal Case for Not Resisting the Ban on Flag Desecration, American Lawyer (October 2003).

• Beware of Politicians in Black Robes, Fulton County Daily Report (September 9, 2003) .

• Effort to Save Alabama Judge from Himself Hurts Cause Even More, Detroit Free Press (August 27, 2003) .

• Confusing Matters in the Ten Commandments Case, San Diego Union Tribune (August 27, 2003) .

• Judges Shouldn't Be Engaging in Civil Disobedience, Dallas Morning News (August 27, 2003) .

• Judge Has Provoked Legal Tussle, Newsday (August 22, 2003) .

• Thou Shall Not Be Meddlesome, Philadelphia Inquirer (August 19, 2003) .

• Judge's Defiance of Federal Court a Blow to the Rule of Law, Chicago Sun-times (August 13, 2003) .

• It's Not a Bad Script, It's a Recall Election in California, Chicago Tribune (August 8, 2003) .

• Who's the Real Winner? Elections for Judges May Be Here to Stay, But Crass Campaign Promises Must Stop, Legal Times (August 11, 2003) .

• Pledges and Promises in Judicial Campaigns, Texas Lawyer (August 18, 2003) .

• Black Robe Politics, The American Lawyer (July 2003).

• Affirmative Action Battle Has Just Begun, Baltimore Sun (June 25, 2003) .

• Michigan Ruling No Decisive Victory for Affirmative Action, Chicago Sun-times (June 25, 2003) .

• Affirmative Action Wins-Sort Of, Newsday (June 24, 2003) .

• Close Calls Ahead for Affirmative Action, Raleigh News & Observer (June 25, 2003) .

• My Lawyer Made Me Do It, American Lawyer (May 1, 2003) .

• When the Church Takes Advantage, Chicago Tribune (May 27, 2003) .

• Why Our Federal Judges Deserve a Decent Pay Increase, Chicago Sun-times, 45 (April 21, 2003) .

• Judging Pay, American Lawyer, 114 (March 2003).

• Medical Malpractice at a Discount, Chicago Tribune, 19 (January 22, 2003) .

• Bush Malpractice Plan Is Very Bad Medicine, Newsday, 39 (January 24, 2003) .

• Dog Tales, Newsday, A23 (January 6, 2003) .

2002

Articles

• Rethinking Deposition Defense: The Case for Strategic Disclosure, 26 American Journal of Trial Advocacy 14-26 (2002).

• Judicial Campaign Conduct Committees: Some Reservations About an Elegant Solution, 35 Indiana Law Review 807-818 (2002).

• Objecting reprinted in this Special Anniversary Edition from 16 AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TRIAL ADVOCACY 213, 25 American Journal of Trial Advocacy 231-270 (2002) .

• Steven Lubet was a participant in a panel, with Harold See, Sandy Keith, Erik Jaffee and Erick Kaardal, Judicial Elections and Free Speech: Ethics and a Judge's Campaign Rhetoric, 33 University of Toledo Law Review 315-334 (2002) (Co-authored by: Harold See, Sandy Keith, Erik Jaffee and Erick Kaardal) .

• Legal Lore: So Perish All Enemies of the Union, 28 Litigation 51-56, 66 (Winter 2002).

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• Bush Shouldn't Provoke a Fight Over Nominees, Dallas News (December 15, 2002) .

• Bush Court Picks: Right or 'Right'?, Newsday, A33 (December 3, 2002) .

• A Way Out of Another Nasty Fight, Chicago Tribune, 27 (December 3, 2002) .

• Poor Judgment: Bush Would Needlessly Alienate Democrats With Two Court Nominees, Newark Star-ledger (December 11, 2002) .

• Bush Shouldn't Try to Revive Controversial Court Nominees, St. Paul Pioneer Press, 11A (December 16, 2002) .

• Which Hurt Their Dignity More, A Lawyer's Rude Comment or the Judges' Harsh Response?, Legal Times, 35 (December 2, 2002) .

• A Footnote Most Foul, The Recorder (December 6, 2002) .

• Free Speech Rights Don't End in Courtroom, Chicago Sun-times (November 6, 2002).

• Blaming Jews for All That's Wrong With the World, Chicago Tribune (October 20, 2002) .

• Divesting in Israel; Anti-Semitism Unleashed, Baltimore Sun (October 18, 2002) .

• Texas Justice Should Be Judged on Merits, Chicago Sun-times (August 28, 2002).

• Sniping Fails to Study Judge's Merits, Atlanta Journal-constitution (August 28, 2002).

• Air Space, Newsday, page A22 (July 8, 2002) .

• Impartiality Lost When Justice Hits Campaign Trail, Baltimore Sun (July 3, 2002) .

• Muzzle Views of Candidates for Judgeships, Atlanta Journal Constitution, page A18 (July 3, 2002) .

• Judges Shouldn't Be Able to Tailor Rulings to Public, Dallas Morning News (July 2, 2002) .

• Bad Policy Headed for Courtrooms, Chicago Tribune, page 17 (July 2, 2002) .

• And Now, Judicial Campaign Promises, San Diego Union Tribune, page B11 (June 28, 2002) .

• Prosecuting Our Enemy Combatants, Chicago Tribune, page 9 (June 23, 2002).

• Law Protects Choice, Not Privacy, Newsday, page A35 (June 5, 2002).

• Where the Urban Gentry Dallies, WBEZ Radio (May 20, 2002) .

• There's a Difference Between Defense, Assist, Chicago Sun Times (May 1, 2002) .

• A Muslim Lawyer for Moussaoui, New York Times (April 25, 2002) .

• Attorneys, Too, Must Obey the Law, Newsday (April 24, 2002) .

• A Test for 'Peace Activists', New York Post (April 8, 2002) .

• The Evolving Definition of 'Peace Activist', Chicago Tribune (April 3, 2002) .

• The Spouse Speaks, Legal Times (April 1, 2002) .

• Virginia Thomas is Using Her Husband's Trials for Advancement, Fulton County Daily Report (April 2, 2002) .

• Spousal Privilege, San Francisco Recorder (April 3, 2002) .

• Supreme Court Spouse Shatters All Boundaries of Restraint, Detroit Free Press, page 9A (March 27, 2002) .

• Did the Missus Go Too Far?, Chicago Tribune, page 27 (March 20, 2002) .

• The Case Against Pickering, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, page 9A (March 11, 2002) .

• Court Nominee Showed Unseemly Leniency To Cross Burner, Minneapolis Star-tribune (March 6, 2002) .

• Appeals Court Nominee Carries Cross For Bigots, Atlanta Journal Constitution (March 1, 2002) .

• The Judge and the Cross Burner, The Baltimore Sun (February 28,2002).

2001

Books

• Mock Trials: Preparing, Presenting, and Winning Your Case (National Institute for Trial Advocacy 2001) (Co-authored by: Jill Trumbull-Harris).

• Advocacia De Arbitragem (Universidade de Brasilia 2001) .

• Evidence In Context, 2nd ed. (NITA 2001) (Co-authored by: Robert P. Burns and James Seckinger) .

• Exercises and Problems in Professional Responsibility, 2nd ed. (NITA 2001) (Co-authored by: Robert P. Burns and Thomas Geraghty) .

• Problems and Materials in Evidence and Trial Advocacy, 3rd ed. (NITA 2001) at Volume 1 & 2 and Teacher's Manual (Co-authored by: Robert P. Burns and James Seckinger) .

• 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) .

• Modern Trial Advocacy, Law School edition (National Institute for Trial Advocacy 2000) .

Articles

• Storytelling and Trials: Playing the "Race Card" in Nineteenth-Century Italy, 31 Stetson Law Review 49-59 (2001).

• Bullying From the Bench, 5 Green Bag 11-16 (2001) .

• Slap Leather! Legal Culture, Wild Bill Hickok, and the Gunslinger Myth, 48 Ucla Law Review 1545-1555 (2001) .

• Story Framing, 74 Temple Law Review 59-67 (2001) .

• Free Speech and Judicial Neutrality: A Reply to Monroe Freedman, Court Review 6 (Winter 2001) .

• On Attention Span: Comment on Marianne Wesson's "A Novelist's Perspective", 50 Depaul Law Review 633-634 (2000) .

• Stupid Judge Tricks, 41 South Texas Law Review 1301-1314 (2000) .

• Should Wyatt Earp Have Been Hanged?, 48 True West 50-56 (2001) .

• The Forgotten Trial of Wyatt Earp, 72 University of Colorado Law Review 1-51 (2001) .

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• Elusive War Against Terrorism Isn't Unprecedented, Newsday, A35 (November 6, 2001).

• Haven't We Fought This Battle Before?, Chicago Tribune, 21 (November 4, 2001).

• Trial Rules Will Fail in War, Dallas Morning News, page 17A (October 9, 2001) .

• War Offers Best Defense, Baltimore Sun, page 21A (October 9, 2001) .

• When 'Justice' Means War, New York Post (October 8, 2001) .

• Why Trials Are Not an Alternative to War, San Francisco Chronicle (September 27, 2001) .

• The Best Place for Justice: Criminal Justice System Not Designed to Halt Terrorism, San Diego Union Tribune, page B7 (September 26, 2001) .

• This Calls for War, Chicago Tribune, page 19 (September 25, 2001) .

• Judiciary Can't Fill In For Military, Atlanta Journal Constitution (September 25, 2001) .

• Just Who Made Federal Judges God?, Chicago Tribune (August 10, 2001) .

• There's Nothing Funny About Judicial Thugs, Atlanta Journal Constitution (August 8, 2001) .

• Microsoft Case Opens Window of Fairness for All, Baltimore Sun (July 5, 2001) .

• Gates Benefitted From Principle of Impartiality, The Record, page L11 (July 6, 2001) .

• Steven Lubet is the co-author for The Microsoft Case and Judicial Ethics, San Diego Union Tribune (July 3, 2001) .

• Steven Lubet is the co-author for Saved--For the Moment--By a Technicality, Chicago Tribune ( July 3, 2001) .

• Steven Lubet is the co-author for Reversal in Microsoft Case Is a Matter of Fairness, Philadelphia Inquirer (July 1, 2001) .

• Steven Lubet is the co-author for Microsoft Decision Spotlights A System's Fairness, Newsday, Page B5 (July 1, 2001) .

• A Prosecutor's Complex Dual Role, National Law Journal, A20 (June 15, 2001) .

• High Court Presents Roadmap for Overturning Abortion Rights, Atlanta Journal Constitution (May 18, 2001) .

• First Medical Marijuana, Next Abortion Rights, Chicago Tribune, 27 (May 17, 2001) .

• What's An Employee to Do?, National Law Journal, A32 (March 19, 2001) .

• It Takes a Plea Agreement: Clinton's 'Moment of Truth' A Meaningful Public Consequence, Chicago Tribune, page 15 (January 23, 2001) .

• Clinton's Law License Was Key That Opened Door to Plea Deal, Atlanta Journal-constitution (January 23, 2001) .

• Appropriate Punishment for Clinton, San Diego Union-tribune, page B-9 (January 23, 2001) .

• Clinton Deal Was Right Thing to Do, Newsday, page B06 (January 21, 2001) .

2000

Articles

• The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance: Truth or Justice in the Old West, 48 Ucla Law Review 353-373 (2000) .

• Murder in the Streets of Tombstone: A Legendary Theory of the Case, 27 Litigation 35 (Fall, 2000) .

• On Judge Posner and the Perils of Commenting on Pending or Impending Proceedings, 37 Court Review 4 (Summer, 2000) .

• When Is an Investigation Merely an Investigation: A Response to Posner, 37 Court Review 7 (Summer, 2000) .

• Intimations of Contemporary Law and Politics in the Early Oeuvre of Robert A. Zimmerman, 3 Green Bag 2d 459-462 (2000) (Co-authored by: Alex J. Lubet) .

• The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara: Contemporary Lessons in the Child Welfare Wars, 45 Villanova Law Review 245-288 (2000).

• A Life Well Lived, 13 Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics 575-576 (2000).

• Rumpled Truth on Trial, 94 Northwestern University Law Review 627-641 (2000) .

• Conflict of Interest at the O.K. Corral, 3 Green Bag 141-147 (2000).

• There Are No Scriveners Here, 43 Trial Lawyers Guide 66-79 (2000) .

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• Running the Presidential Debate Like a Sporting Event, National Public Radio (Oct. 9, 2000) .

• A Safer Country Thanks to Lawyers, Detroit Free Press (Oct. 25, 2000) .

• Unlikely Heros in Firestone Fiasco, San Francisco Chronicle, page A25 (Oct. 13, 2000) .

• Credit Lawyers for Firestone, Baltimore Sun, page 21A (Oct. 12, 2000) .

• In the Firestone Case, Trial Lawyers Are the Real Heroes, San Diego Union-tribune, page B7 (Oct. 11, 2000) .

• After the Firestone Debacle, Ya Gotta Love Lawyers, Chicago Tribune, page 25 (Oct. 6, 2000) .

• Greedy Lawyers Are Often the Public's Allies, Newsday, page A44 (Oct. 4, 2000) .

• Vetting the Veep Was Too Vital to Let Cheney Clear Himself, Newsday (August 10, 2000) .

• Hillary Bashing, Chicago Tribune, 21 (July 27, 2000) .

• Alabama Judge is Determined to Post Ten Commandments, Chicago Tribune, 23 (July 6, 2000) .

• It Wasn't Just Praying in Texas Case, Newsday, A23 (June 26, 2000) .

• Judge's Prayers Wrong, Atlanta Journal-constitution (June 13, 2000) .

• A Victory for Families and the Rule of Law, Houston Chronicle, 4 (June 4, 2000) .

• Let the Jury Decide...Except When There's Big Money at Stake, Chicago Tribune (May 26, 2000).

• Witch Hunt in a Public School, San Francisco Chronicle (April 16, 2000).

• Elian Case Mustn't Become Street Battle, Newsday (April 6, 2000).

• Ethics Clash of Two Giants, National Law Journal (April 3, 2000).

• Chasing Matza, Farbrengen, Passover 5760 (April 2000).

• I Always Figured That Ethics Would Come in Handy Some Day, National Public Radio (May 8, 2000).

• Don't You Dare Fling Your Butts Out of the Window, National Public Radio (April 14, 2000) .

• No More Mr. Nice Guys; Picking the Second Banana, Chicago Tribune, 13 (March 14, 2000) .

• Michael Jordan's Agent Could be Called for Foul Play, Newsday, page A58 (Feb. 17, 2000).

• Thou Shalt Not Judge, Chicago Tribune, page 21 (Feb. 16, 2000).

• Wicca Serves As Easy Target, Atlanta Journal-constitution (Feb. 15, 2000) .

• Michael Jordan's Endorsement Deals Versus Player Contracts; Can the Wizard's New President Do His Job Fairly?, San Francisco Chronicle, page 21 (Feb. 9, 2000).

• Football's Lesson in Conflicts of Interest, National Law Journal, A21 (Jan. 31, 2000).

• Parents' Rights Must Prevail, Dallas Morning News, 18A (Jan. 18, 2000) .

• Courts Not Always Best Judge of Children's Rights, Interests, Baltimore Sun, 11A (Jan. 16, 2000) .

• Parent Trap? Grandparents' Rights Should be Determined by Parents, Not the Courts, Chicago Tribune, 23 (Jan. 13, 2000) .

• Courts Not Always the Best Judge of Children's Rights and Interests, Philadelphia Inquirer (Jan. 13, 2000) .

• Why Courts Don't Make Good Parents, San Diego Union-tribune (Jan. 13, 2000) .

1999

Books

• Judicial Conduct and Ethics, 3rd ed. (Lexis Law Publishing 2000) (Co-authored by: Jeffrey M. Shaman, and James J. Alfini).

Articles

• Expert Witnesses: Ethics and Professionalism, 12 Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics 465-488 (1999).

• Reconstructing Atticus Finch, 97 Michigan Law Review 1339-1362 (1999).

• Reply [to responses by Althouse, Atkinson, Powell, Simon, and Stone], 97 Michigan Law Review 1382-1384 (1999).

• There Are No Scriveners Here, 84 Iowa Law Review 341-350 (1999).

• Expert Testimony: A Survivor's Guide to Cross Examination, Court Call 1 (Winter, 1999).

• Decalogue Divisiveness, Church & State 13 (May, 1999).

• Judical Kidnapping, Then and Now: The Case of Edgardo Mortara, 93 Northwestern University Law Review 961-975 (1999) .

• Judicial Discipline and Judicial Independence, 61 Law And Contemporary Problems 59-74 (1998).

• Lubet Replies to Edelman: Mistakes? What Mistakes?, 93 Northwestern University Law Review 347-349 (1998).

• Moral Adventures in Narrative Lawyering, 2 Green Bag 2d 179-189 (1999).

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• Michigan's Deerest Pastime, Detroit Free Press (Nov. 15, 1999) .

• Racial Discrimination in Jury Selection, Chicago Tribune (Nov. 14, 1999) .

• Do You Want To Be a Real Judge, or Play One?, Des Moines Register (Nov. 9, 1999) .

• The 'Real' Judge Joe Brown Is Being Injudicious, Newsday (Nov. 4, 1999) .

• 'Judge Joe Brown' is Unethical, Memphis Commercial Appeal (Oct. 15, 1999) .

• Peace and Legal Normalcy, National Law Journal (Oct. 4, 1999) .

• We Find 'Judge Joe Brown' is Unethical, Chicago Tribune (Oct. 3, 1999) .