Posts by Steve Lubet

(cross posted on Legal Ethics Forum) Elizabeth Mertz and I have had a lively exchange about studying the ethics of ethnography, which you can read at the New Legal Realism…

Robin Kar, of the University of Illinois, has put up a very informative post about the legal issues -- especially contracts -- in the Salaita case.  Read it here.

I have a Tribune oped today on the Steven Salaita case.  You can see the whole essay here, and some key paragraphs are below:   "It's Time, U of I: Offer…

We have had a great symposium on Go Set a Watchman, which our leader Al Brophy has asked me to wrap up.  I have to say, however, that the excellent…

Faculty Lounge readers may recall my protracted efforts to obtain a copy of Alice Goffman’s  dissertation.  Following my repeated inquiries, it was finally deposited in Princeton’s Mudd Manuscript Library on…

(Cross posted on Legal Ethics Forum) Writing in The New Yorker, Lincoln Caplan argues in favor of a Code of Conduct for the U.S. Supreme Court, focusing primarily on issues…

My new article has been posted by The New Republic.  There is much new information about Alice Goffman's On the Run, including the outcome of the murder case at the…

After 150 years, the government of South Carolina has finally recognized that the Confederate battle flag is a symbol of slavery, racism, hatred, and treason.  Good for them.  Let’s hope…

Much has been written about the dilemma of Red State county clerks and other officials who have religious objections to same sex marriage.  Are they required to issue marriage licenses…

Sen. Ted Cruz’s campaign memoir, just published today, includes a charming vignette about playing tennis with Chief Justice Rehnquist during his clerkship.  Says Cruz, “it was a required part of…