Ralph Richard Banks
Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Law

Publications & Cases

Recent Publications

Ralph Richard Banks, Complicated Dynamics, Room for Debate: A Running Commentary on the News, New York Times, July 22, 2009.
Ralph Richard Banks and Richard Thompson Ford, (How) Does Unconscious Bias Matter? Law, Politics, and Racial Inequality, 58 Emory Law Journal 1053 (2009).
Ralph Richard Banks, Beyond Colorblindness: Neo-Racialism and the Future of Race and Law Scholarship, 25 Harvard BlackLetter Law Journal 41 (Spring 2009).
R. Richard Banks, Class and Culture: The Indeterminacy of Nondiscrimination, 5 Stanford Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 1 (2009)
R. Richard Banks, Beyond Common-sense Understandings of Sex and Race Discrimination, in Beyond Common Sense: Psychological Science in the Courtroom, Eugene Borgida and Susan T. Fiske, eds., Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, July 2008.
R. Richard Banks, Jennifer L. Eberhardt, and Lee Ross, Race, Crime, and Antidiscrimination, in Beyond Common Sense: Psychological Science in the Courtroom, Eugene Borgida and Susan t. Fiske, eds, Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, July 2008.
R. Richard Banks, The Aftermath of Loving v. Virginia: Sex Asymmetry in African American Intermarriage, 2007 Wisconsin Law Review 533 (2007).
R. Richard Banks, Jennifer L. Eberhardt and Lee Ross, Discrimination and Implicit Bias in a Racially Unequal Society (Symposium on Behavioral Realism), 94 California Law Review 1169 (2006).
R. Richard Banks and Su Jin Gatlin, African American Intimacy: The Racial Gap in Marriage (Symposium: Going Back to Class? The Reemergence of Class in Critical Race Theory), 11 Michigan Journal of Race & Law 115 (2005).
R. Richard Banks, The Story of Brown v. City of Oneonta: The Uncertain Meaning of Racially Discriminatory Policing Under the Equal Protection Clause, in Constitutional Law Stories, Michael Dorf, editor, 2004.
R. Richard Banks, The Story of Brown v. City of Oneonta: The Uncertain Meaning of Racially Discriminatory Policing Under the Equal Protection Clause, Stanford Law School Research Paper No. 81 (January 2004). 21 pages.
R. Richard Banks, Pamela S. Karlan, William S. Koski and Jack Greenberg, Brown v. Board of Education: 50 Years Later [Panel discussion], 38 Stanford Lawyer 20-25 (Spring 2004).
R. Richard Banks, Racial Profiling and Antiterrorism Efforts, 89 Cornell Law Review 1201-1217 (2004).
R. Richard Banks, G. Marcus Cole, Robert Smith, Bob Parks, Blacks and conservatism, Forum held February 24, 2004, sponsored by the Black Law Student Association, Stanford Law School. [Videorecording] C-SPAN, (2004).
R. Richard Banks, Benign-Invidious Asymmetry in Equal Protection Analysis, 31 Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly 573-586 (2003).
R. Richard Banks, Beyond Profiling: Race, Policing, and the Drug War, 56 Stanford Law Review 571-603 (December 2003).
R. Richard Banks, Beyond Profiling: Race, Policing, and the Drug War, Stanford Law School Public Law Working Paper No. 72 (December 2003). 33 pages.
R. Richard Banks, Intimacy and Racial Equality: The Limits of Antidiscrimination, Stanford Public Law & Legal Theory Research Paper No. 62 (2003). 24 pages.
R. Richard Banks, Intimacy and Racial Equality: The Limits of Antidiscrimination. (Book Review: Interracial Intimacies: Sex, Marriage, Identity, and Adoption, by Randall Kennedy), 38 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 455-477 (Summer 2003).
R. Richard Banks, Race-Based Suspect Selection and Colorblind Equal Protection Doctrine and Discourse, Stanford Law School Public Law Working Paper No. 27 (2001). 51 pages.

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