Posts by Steve Lubet

This is the third and last installment. Part one is here. Part two is here. In inclusive music choice for Hee Haw This scene did not make it into the ...

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

Judge James Ho, of the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, has announced that he will no longer hire clerks from Yale Law School. Judge Ho’s boycott, which has been…

Mother Jones has a terrific article about the movement for SCOTUS expansion, featuring many quotes and much analysis from Sarah Lipton-Lubet. Here is a taste, and you can read it…

My new essay is up at The Chronicle of Higher Education on the latest anti-Jewish move by Law Students for Justice in Palestine at Berkeley Law. It is paywalled, but…

"Someone to Watch over Me" was written by George and Ira Gershwin in 1926 for the now forgotten musical Oh, Kay! starring Gertrude Lawrence. It has been covered over 1800 ...

Jake Tapper on Doug Mastriano's views of a "privileged, elite school" and "disdain for people like us." Josh Shapiro in his own words:   Jake Tapper in The Atlantic, on…

Steven B. Epstein, author of EXTREME PUNISHMENT:  The Chilling True Story of Acclaimed Law Professor Dan Markel’s Murder will be guest posting for a while. Here is the first installment:   ...

My new essay at The Hill is about Ron DeSantis’s appalling ignorance of American slavery – even as he promotes so-called “objective” history under his Stop WOKE Act – and…

"St. James Infirmary" is an old song of unknown origin, famously recorded by Louis Armstrong in 1928 and covered countless times since then. There have been several conflicting authorship and ...