Ralph Richard Banks
Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Law

Publications & Cases

Recent Publications

R. Richard Banks, Meritocratic Values and Racial Outcomes: Defending Class-Based College Admissions, 79 North Carolina Law Review 1029-1071 (May 2001).
R. Richard Banks, Meritocratic Values and Racial Outcomes: Defending Class-Based College Admissions, Stanford Law School Public Law Working Paper No. 26 (2001). 36 pages.
R. Richard Banks, Introduction (Symposium: Border People and Antidiscrimination Law), 17 Harvard BlackLetter Law Journal 23-32 (2001).
R. Richard Banks, Race-Based Suspect Selection and Colorblind Equal Protection Doctrine and Discourse, 48 UCLA Law Review 1075-1124 (2001).
R. Richard Banks, Crime-Abortion Link Isn't a Racist Attack, Los Angeles Times (August 23, 1999). p. B5.
R. Richard Banks and Jennifer L. Eberhardt, Social Psychological Processes and the Legal Bases of Racial Categorization, in, Confronting Racism: The Problem and the Response. Jennifer L. Eberhardt and Susan T. Fiske, editors. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1998. p. 54-75.
R. Richard Banks, A Response to Elizabeth Bartholet, 107 Yale Law Journal 2357-2358 (1998).
R. Richard Banks, The Color of Desire: Fulfilling Adoptive Parents' Racial Preferences Through Discriminatory State Action, 107 Yale Law Journal 875-964 (1998).
R. Richard Banks, The Political Economy of Racial Discourse. (Book Review: Racial Healing: Confronting the Fear Between Blacks and Whites, by Harlon L. Dalton), 9 Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities 217-144 (1997).
R. Richard Banks, 'Nondiscriminatory' Perpetuation of Racial Subordination. (Book Review: Black Wealth/White Wealth: A New Perspective on Racial Inequality by Melvin Oliver and Thomas M. Shapiro), 76 Boston University Law Review 669-701 (1996).
Jennifer Eberhardt and R. Richard Banks, Programs Must Puncture Myths of Racial Inferiority, Los Angeles Daily Journal (March 16, 1995). p. 6.
R. Richard Banks, Toward an Understanding of Black Identity. (Book Review: Lure and Loathing: Essays on Race, Identity, and the Ambivalance of Assimilation, by Gerald Early), 11 Harvard BlackLetter Law Journal 215-220 (1994).

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