Posts by Steve Lubet

In an earlier post, I told the story of John E. Cook’s trial following the Harper’s Ferry raid.  In Virginia, Cook was represented by the Copperhead Democrat Daniel Voorhees, who ...

As reported by Inside Higher Ed, Assistant Professor Steve Cicala, an economist at the University of Chicago, has decided to boycott the University of Illinois over the trustees’ recent decision ...

One of the greatest trial lawyers of the Nineteenth Century was Daniel W. Voorhees, who first rose to prominence when he defended one of John Brown’s raiders.  Although he was ...

The trustees of the University of Illinois have voted 8-1 against providing Steven Salaita a tenured appointment in the department of American Indian Studies.  As I have written before (here ...

Abolitionist lawyers in the antebellum era made a practice of representing fugitive slaves and rescuers in the North, but African-Americans had some access to courts even in the southern states.  ...

Celebrate by listening to the Weavers’ “Union Miners.”   On top of everything else, it is beautifully arranged:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=rZVNCE9xtH4

The best thing one can say about Rev. Bruce M. Shipman, the Episcopal chaplain at Yale, is that he does not bother to disguise his beliefs.  In response to a ...

As Al Brophy has often reminded us, slavery was a constant subject of litigation throughout the antebellum period.  As a teacher of Trial Advocacy, I have been interested in the ...

In Lawyers’ Poker, I wrote that the best movie ever made about poker was The Hustler, in which there were no card games at all.  As fans of Paul Newman…

It was not my intention to continue blogging about the Salaita case, but one of the comments to my original post really calls for an extended reply.  To summarize the ...