Ralph Richard Banks | |
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| Born | Ralph Richard Banks (1964-12-11)December 11, 1964 (age 61) |
| Occupations | Law professor Author |
| Spouse | Jennifer Eberhardt |
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| Education | Stanford University Harvard Law School |
Ralph Richard Banks (born December 11, 1964) is a professor atStanford Law School, where he has taught since 1998. He also teaches at theStanford Graduate School of Education. His scholarship focuses on race, inequality and the law.[1] He published the bookIs Marriage for White People?: How the African American Marriage Decline Affects Everyone in 2011.
Ralph Richard Banks grew up inCleveland, Ohio, and graduated fromUniversity School in 1983.[2] He then enrolled atStanford University, where he received both bachelor's and master's degrees in 1987. He received his J.D. degree,cum laude, fromHarvard Law School in 1994.
After graduating from Stanford, Banks wrote regularly about race, culture, and inequality for a wide array of newspapers, includingThe New York Times,[3] theLos Angeles Times,[4] theChicago Tribune,The Plain Dealer (Cleveland,Ohio), theDetroit Free Press,The Detroit News,The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, theSt. Louis Post-Dispatch,The Denver Post, and theSan Francisco Chronicle, among others.
After graduating from law school, Banks practiced law at the San Francisco office ofO'Melveny & Myers. He is a member of the California Bar.
After leaving private practice, Banks served as the Reginald F. Lewis Fellow at Harvard Law School, where he wrote "The Color of Desire: Fulfilling Adoptive Parents' Racial Preferences Through Discriminatory State Action." The article subsequently appeared in theYale Law Journal.[5]
Following his fellowship, Banks clerked for the HonorableBarrington D. Parker Jr., of theSecond Circuit Court of Appeals.
Banks' research addresses issues related to race and inequality across a variety of domains, from criminal justice, to employment, to the family.[6] He has written and lectured widely in these areas. Professor Banks teaches family law, employment discrimination law, race and law, and the Fourteenth Amendment. He has been a visiting professor at Harvard Law School and theUniversity of Virginia Law School. His scholarly writings have appeared in theYale Law Journal, theStanford Law Review,[7] the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, the Stanford Journal of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, theVanderbilt Law Review, the UCLA Law Review, theCalifornia Law Review, theCornell Law Review,[8] and many others. He is an editorial board member of theLaw & Society Review.
Ralph Richard Banks lives with his wife,Jennifer Eberhardt, a prominent social psychologist,[9] Stanford University faculty member andMacarthur Grant awardee,[10] and their three children (Everett, Ebbie, and Harlan) in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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