Stuart Banner


Stuart Alan Banner is an American legal historian and the Norman Abrams Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law. Banner also directs UCLA's Supreme Court Clinic, which offers students the opportunity to work on real cases before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Education and early career

Banner received his B.A. from Yale University in 1985 and his J.D. from Stanford Law School in 1988, where he was an articles editor of the Stanford Law Review.
Following his graduation from law school, Banner clerked for Judge Alex Kozinski of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Academic career

Before joining the UCLA law faculty in 2001, Banner worked as an associate at Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York City, practiced law at the New York Office of the Appellate Defender, and taught at the Washington University School of Law.
At UCLA, Banner teaches courses on property law, American legal thought, and the Supreme Court.
Banner is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Fulbright Scholar Program, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
A 2014 study found that Banner is the seventh most-cited legal scholar in the field of legal history.

Publications

Banner's scholarship has been published in numerous law journals, including the Stanford Law Review, Harvard Law Review, Virginia Law Review, and The Journal of Legal Studies.
Banner has authored 8 books, including: