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Stuart Banner
Professor of Law
B.A. Yale, 1985
J.D. Stanford, 1988
UCLA Law faculty since 2001
banner@law.ucla.edu |
Stuart Banner teaches Property, American Legal History, the Capital Punishment Clinic, and a variety of other courses.
Professor Banner is a legal historian who has written about a wide range of topics in American and British legal history. His books include Who Owns the Sky? The Struggle to Control Airspace from the Wright Brothers On (Harvard University Press, 2008), Possessing the Pacific: Land, Settlers, and Indigenous People from Australia to Alaska (Harvard University Press, 2007), How the Indians Lost Their Land: Law and Power on the Frontier (Harvard University Press, 2005), The Death Penalty: An American History (Harvard University Press, 2002), Legal Systems in Conflict: Property and Sovereignty in Missouri, 1750-1860 (University of Oklahoma Press, 2000), and Anglo-American Securities Regulation: Cultural and Political Roots, 1690-1860 (Cambridge University Press, 1998). He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Fulbright Scholar Program, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
Professor Banner graduated from Stanford Law School, where he was articles editor of the Stanford Law Review. He clerked for Judge Alex Kozinski of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and Justice Sandra Day O’Connor of the U.S. Supreme Court. He practiced law at Davis Polk & Wardwell and at the Office of the Appellate Defender, both in New York. Before coming to UCLA, he taught at Washington University in St. Louis.
