Angela M. Banks

Assistant Professor of Law

ambank|at|wm.edu

Degrees

J.D., Harvard
M.Litt., Oxford University
B.A., Spelman College

Areas of Specialization

Human Rights; International Law; Women and the Law.

Teaching This Coming Year (2008-2009)

Contracts, Gender and Human Rights Seminar, Immigration & Citizenship

Representative Professional Activities & Achievements

Angela Banks joined the faculty in 2007. She is a graduate of Harvard Law School, where she served on the Harvard Law Review and the Harvard International Law Journal. Prior to law school Professor Banks studied at the University of Oxford Centre for Socio-Legal Studies as a Marshall Scholar, where she earned a Master of Letters in Sociology. Prior to joining the faculty, Professor Banks was the Reginald F. Lewis Fellow for Law Teaching at Harvard Law School. She has also served as a legal advisor to Judge Gabrielle Kirk McDonald at the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal; an associate at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering in Washington, DC; and as law clerk for Judge Carlos F. Lucero of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. Professor Banks received her B.A. in sociology, summa cum laude, from Spelman College.

Professor Banks's publications

Articles

Symposium Issue, Expanding Participation in Constitution Making: Challenges and Opportunities, 49 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. ___ (forthcoming 2008).
Challenging Political Boundaries, 29 U. Penn. J. Int'l L. ___ (forthcoming 2007).
Participatory Constitution Making in Post-Conflict States, 101 Am. Soc'y Int'l L. Proc. ___ (forthcoming 2007).
Moderating Politics in Post-Conflict States: An Examination of Bosnia and Herzegovina, 10 UCLA J. Int'l L. & Foreign Aff. 1 (2005).
Carla Del Ponte: Her Retrospective of Four Years in the Hague, 6 Int'l L.F. 37 (2004).
The Growing Impact of Non-State Actors on the International and European Legal Systems, 5 Int'l L.F. 293 (2003).
Note, The Relationship Between Equality and Access in Law School Admissions, 113 Harv. L. Rev. 1449 (2000).
Supreme Court Case Comment, The Supreme Court 1998 Term--Civil Rights Act of 1991--Employer Liability for Punitive Damages in Title VII Claims: Kolstad v. American Dental Association, 119 S. Ct. 2118 (1999), 113 Harv. L. Rev. 359 (1999).
Case Comment, Foreign Affairs Power -- The Massachusetts Burma Law is Found to Encroach on the Federal Government's Exclusive Constitutional Authority to Regulate Foreign Affairs. -- National Foreign Trade Council v. Baker, 26 F. Supp. 2d 287 (D. Mass. 1998), 112 Harv. L. Rev. 2013 (1999).

Other

Report, Sexual Violence and International Criminal Law: An Analysis of the Ad Hoc Tribunal's Jurisprudence & the International Criminal Court's Elements of Crimes (Fall 2005) (prepared for Women's Initiatives for Gender Justice, The Hague, Netherlands). Available online here.
Report, Democracy and Diversity: Principles and Concepts for Educating Citizens in a Global World (Center for Multicultural Education, University of Washington 2005) (International Review Panel Member). Available online here.

Resources