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Stuart Banner is a legal historian and the Norman Abrams Distinguished Professor of Law at UCLA. He has written extensively on various topics in American and British legal history. His notable publications include 'Powerful Court World: History Supreme Court United States' (Oxford University Press, 2024), and 'Decline of Natural Law: American Lawyers Once Used Natural Law and Stopped' (2021). He has received several fellowships including those from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. As the director of UCLA's Supreme Court Clinic, he has represented clients in multiple recent Supreme Court cases, showcasing his active engagement in contemporary legal discourse. Banner graduated from Stanford Law School and served as articles editor of the Stanford Law Review. His previous academic appointment was at Washington University in St. Louis. His rich experience includes clerking for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor at the U.S. Supreme Court and practicing law at Davis Polk & Wardwell, as well as the Office of the Appellate Defender in New York. He teaches courses in Property and legal history at UCLA.
UCLA School of Law • Los Angeles, CA
Teaching Property, Supreme Court Clinic, and various legal courses.
U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit and U.S. Supreme Court • Washington, D.C.
Clerked for Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and Judge Alex Kozinski.
Davis Polk & Wardwell • New York, NY
Practiced law in appellate matters.
Washington University in St. Louis • St. Louis, MO
Taught law courses.
Department of Economics admits primarily for the PhD program.