Steven Bender

James and Ilene Hershner Professor of Law
Director of Portland Programs

Steven W. Bender spent five years practicing real estate law at the Phoenix-based business law firm of Lewis and Roca. He is the coauthor of a casebook on real estate transactions, a national treatise on real estate financing, and a book on Latino stereotypes titled Greasers and Gringos: Latinos, Law, and the American Imagination (NYU Press 2003) and a book on politics titled One Night in America: Robert Kennedy, Cesar Chavez, and the Dream of Dignity (Paradigm Publishers 2008). Bender previously served as codirector of the law school's Center for Law and Entrepreneurship. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute and the American College of Real Estate Lawyers.