Steve Bender

Biography

Professor Bender joins the faculty from the University of Oregon, where he taught for twenty years, serving as James and Ilene Hershner Professor of Law, Director of Portland Programs, and Director of the Green Business Initiative. He is the coauthor of more than a dozen law review articles, a casebook on real estate transactions, a national two-volume treatise on real estate financing, a book on Latino stereotypes titled Greasers and Gringos: Latinos, Law, and the American Imagination (NYU Press 2003), a book on politics titled One Night in America: Robert Kennedy, Cesar Chavez, and the Dream of Dignity (Paradigm Publishers 2008, winner of the 2008 Oregon Book Award for General Nonfiction), a book on language policy titled Comprende?: The Significance of Spanish in English-Only Times (Floricanto Press 2008), a book on housing policy titled Tierra y Libertad: Land, Liberty, and Latino Housing (NYU Press 2010), and the co-author of Everyday Law for Latinos (Paradigm Publishers 2008). NYU Press will publish his latest book on border policy, Run for the Border: Vice and Virtue in U.S.-Mexico Border Crossings, in 2011.

He is an elected member of the American Law Institute and the American College of Real Estate Lawyers. During 2009-2011, Bender served as co-president of the 700-member national association SALT (Society of American Law Teachers).