Ralph Richard Banks
Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Law

Publications & Cases

Recent Publications

Ralph Richard Banks, Trayvon Martin Was the Victim of a Stereotype That Has Its Roots in Crime Statistics, The Daily Beast, March 27, 2012.
Ralph Richard Banks, Charles Murray’s ‘Coming Apart’ and the Culture Myth, The Daily Beast, February 8, 2012.
Ralph Richard Banks, The Perils and Promise of Openness, Room for Debate: A Running Commentary on the News, New York Times, January 20, 2012.
Ralph Richard Banks, A Shortage of Eligible Black Men, Room for Debate: A Running Commentary on the News, New York Times, December 20, 2011.
Rick Banks, Overview of “Is Marriage for White People? How the African American Marriage Decline Affects Everyone”, The Volokh Conspiracy, September 6, 2011.
Ralph Richard Banks, The Relationship Market, Essence, September 2011, p.124-126.
Ralph Richard Banks, Is Marriage for White People? How the African American Marriage Decline Affects Everyone, New York: Dutton, 2011.
Ralph Richard Banks, Love Beyond Black and White, Essence, September 2011, pp.128-132.
Ralph Richard Banks, Why Interracial Marriage Is Good for Black Women - and the Best Hope for Restoring Marriage in the Black Community, Council on Contemporary Families Discussion Paper, August 30, 2011.
Ralph Richard Banks, An Interracial Fix for Black Marriage, Wall Street Journal, August 6/7, 2011, p. C3.
R. Richard Banks Group Harms in Antiterrorism Efforts: A Pervasive Problem with No Simple Solution, 117 Yale Law Journal. Pocket Part 198 (2008)
Ralph Richard Banks, Marriage: The Next Chapter: How Moral Norms Evolve, Room for Debate: A Running Commentary on the News, New York Times.com, July 3, 2011.
Ralph Richard Banks, A Cruel Paradox, Room for Debate: A Running Commentary on the News, New York Times, June 21, 2011.
Ralph Richard Banks, The Childlessness Factor, Room for Debate: A Running Commentary on the News, New York Times, December 19, 2010.
Ralph Richard Banks, Commentary on Professor Lempert's Presidential Address, 44 Law and Society Review 463 (2010)
Ralph Richard Banks, The Soul Mate Factor, Room for Debate: A Running Commentary on the News, New York Times, June 4, 2010.
Ralph Richard Banks, The Marriage Decline, Room for Debate: A Running Commentary on the News, New York Times, January 24, 2010.
Ralph Richard Banks, The Multiethnic Placement Act and the Troubling Persistence of Race Matching, 38 Capital University Law Review 271 (2009)
Ralph Richard Banks, Why Do So Many People Oppose Same-Sex Marriage?, 5 Stanford Journal of Civil Rights & Civil Liberties 409 (2009)
Ralph Richard Banks, Sidestepping Land Mines, Room for Debate: A Running Commentary on the News, New York Times, July 23, 2009.

rbanks@stanford.edu

650 723.6591

Curriculum Vitae

Education:

BA Stanford University 1987
MA Stanford University 1987
JD Harvard Law School 1994

Expertise:

Antidiscrimination Law
Family Law
Property
Race and the Law