Law and Ethics Speakers

From social justice to corporate ethics and beyond, these author speakers’ powerful storytelling demonstrates the perils of abandoning honesty and integrity for businesses, libraries, university audiences, and anyone committed to justice.

Brittany K. Barnett

Award-winning attorney, entrepreneur, and author of A Knock at Midnight

Anand Giridharadas

Bestselling author of Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World and a top on-air political analyst for MSNBC

Kristin Henning

Professor of Law at Georgetown University and author of The Rage of Innocence

Eric Holder

Former U.S. attorney general and esteemed civil rights leader

Patrick Radden Keefe

New Yorker staff writer and author of the New York Times bestsellers Say Nothing and Empire of Pain

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Ken Armstrong

Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter and co-author of Unbelievable

Shane Bauer

Investigative reporter and author of American Prison

Adam Benforado

Law professor and author of Unfair: The New Science of Criminal Injustice

Rosa Brooks

American law professor and author of Tangled Up in Blue

John Carreyrou

Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and author of the New York Times bestseller Bad Blood

Casey Cep

New York Times bestselling author of Furious Hours and New Yorker staff writer

John Dean

Legal expert and author of the New York Times-bestselling The Nixon Defense

Luke Dittrich

Journalist and award-winning author of Patient H.M.

Dr. Jennifer L. Eberhardt

Award-winning social psychologist and one of the world’s leading experts on unconscious bias

Dr. Sheri Fink

Pulitzer Prize-winning medical journalist and author of Five Days at Memorial, M.D. and Ph.D. from Stanford

Franklin Foer

National correspondent for The Atlantic, New America Foundation fellow, and former editor of The New Republic

Marc Goodman

Global security advisor, futurist, and New York Times-bestselling author of Future Crimes

Dr. Ibram X. Kendi

National Book Award-winning historian and New York Times-bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist

William Landay

Bestselling author of Defending Jacob, former district attorney

Jill Leovy

Author of the New York Times-bestselling book, Ghettoside

Lauren Markham

Journalist and author of The Far Away Brothers

Bethany McLean

Vanity Fair contributing editor and co-author of All the Devils are Here and the national bestseller The Smartest Guys in the Room

Sister Helen Prejean

Leading advocate for the abolition of the death penalty

Dani Shapiro

Bestselling author of Hourglass and Inheritance, host of the Family Secrets podcast.

David Treuer

Author of The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee and Rez Life