Posts by Steve Lubet

Born Eleanora Fagan and known as Lady Day, the great Billie Holiday needs no introduction:     Unmistakably and most importantly:     

This is Steven Epstein's eighth and penultimate guest post on Extreme Punishment:  The Chilling True Story of Acclaimed Law Professor Dan Markel’s Murder. The following is an excerpt from Chapter ...

This piece has gotten a lot of attention, so I am moving it to the top today. My new essay at The Hill explains how the Supreme Court’s Bruen decision…

Hank Williams originally wrote "Hey, Good Lookin'" for his friend Little Jimmy Dickens in 1951, promising to give him a hit. It took Williams only 20 minutes to write the ...

This is Steve Epstein's seventh guest post on Extreme Punishment:  The Chilling True Story of Acclaimed Law Professor Dan Markel’s Murder. The following is an excerpt from Chapter 8, Ivory ...

"To Love Somebody" was the Bee Gees second single, written by Barry and Robin Gibb and released in 1967. Barry once told Piers Morgan that it was his favorite of ...

I have a long-form essay  in The Daily Beast about the unethical judicial boycott of Yale Law School (written before Yale announced that it would no longer cooperate with the…

"Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" was written by Don Raye and Hughie Prince in 1941, and first performed by the Andrews Sisters in the Abbott and Costello film Buck Privates. Their ...

This is the sixth guest post by Steven Epstein from his book, Extreme Punishment:  The Chilling True Story of Acclaimed Law Professor Dan Markel’s Murder. The following is an excerpt ...

My new column is posted at The Hill, explaining the disastrous consequences of the Supreme Court’s recent Bruen decision. As three lower courts recently discovered, it makes reasonable gun control…