Steven Bender: Publications

Books

Modern Real Estate Finance and Land Transfer: A Transactional Approach, with Celeste Hammond (John Marshall), Michael Madison (Fordham) and Robert Zinman (St. John's) (Aspen Law & Business 4th edition 2008) (casebook)

The Law of Real Estate Financing, with Michael Madison and Jeffry Dwyer (West Group 1994-2008 with biannual supplements) (2-volume edition released 2004) (treatise)

One Night in America: Robert Kennedy, César Chávez, and the Dream of Dignity (Paradigm Publishers 2007, paperback 2008) (winner, 2008 Oregon Book Award for General Nonfiction)

Everyday Law for Latinos, with Raquel Aldana (UNLV) Gil Carrasco (Willamette) and Joaquin Avila (Seattle) (Paradigm Publishers 2008, paperback 2009)

Comprende?: The Significance of Spanish in English-Only Times (Floricanto Press 2008)

Greasers and Gringos: Latinos, Law, and the American Imagination (New York University Press 2003, paperback 2005) (Honorable Mention, 2004, Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights)

Arizona Guaranty Actions (1990) (Barbites CLE publication for Arizona attorneys)

Books in Progress

Tierra y Libertad: Land, Liberty, and Latinos (forthcoming 2009, New York University Press)

Law Review Articles

Knocked Down Again: An East L.A. Story on the Geography of Color and Colors, ___ Harvard Latino Law Review (forthcoming Spring 2009)

The Enforceability of Default Interest in Real Estate Mortgages (with Michael Madison), 43 Real Property, Probate & Trust Journal 199 (Summer 2008)

Old Hate in New Bottles: Privatizing, Localizing, and Bundling Anti-Spanish and Anti Immigrant Sentiment in the 21st Century, 7 UNLV Law Review 883 (2007)

Race and the California Recall: A Top Ten List of Ironies (with Keith Aoki and Sylvia Lazos), 16 La Raza Law Journal 11 (2005)

Seekin' the Cause: Social Justice Movements and LatCrit Community (with Keith Aoki), 81 Oregon Law Review 595 (2002)

Sight, Sound, and Stereotype: The War Against Terrorism and Its Consequences for Latinas/os, 81 Oregon Law Review 1153 (2002)

Will the Wolf Survive?: Latino/a Pop Music in the Cultural Mainstream, 78 University of Denver Law Review 719 (2001)

Silencing Culture and Culturing Silence: A Comparative Experience of Centrifugal Forces in the Ethnic Studies Curriculum, Michigan Journal of Race & Law and University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform (2000)

Castles in the Sand: Balancing Public Custom and Private Ownership Interests on Oregon's Beaches, 77 Oregon Law Review 913 (1998)

Direct Democracy and Distrust: The Relationship between Language Law Rhetoric and the Language Vigilantism Experience, 2 Harvard Latino Law Review 145 (1997)

Consumer Protection for Latinos: Overcoming Language Fraud and English Only in the Marketplace, 45 American University Law Review 1027 (1996)

Rate Regulation at the Crossroads of Usury and Unconscionability: The Case for Regulating Abusive Commercial and Consumer Interest Rates under the Unconscionability Standard, 31 Houston Law Review 721 (1994)

Oregon Consumer Protection: Outfitting Private Attorneys General for the Lean Years Ahead, 73 Oregon Law Review 639 (1994)

Essays and Reviews

Book Review, Latinos and American Law: Landmark Supreme Court Cases, in 48 American Journal of Legal History 342 (2006)

Savage Fronteras and Tribal Boundaries: Chasing Success in Hollywood's Bordertown, in Screening Justice (Teree E. Foster, Rennard Strickland, and Taunya Banks, eds., 2006)

Anglo Stereotyping of Latinos, in Encyclopedia Latina: History, Culture, and Society in the United States (Ilan Stavans, ed., 2005)

Latino Stereotyping of Anglos, in Encyclopedia Latina: History, Culture, and Society in the United States (Ilan Stavans, ed., 2005)

Spanish Language Rights and Law in Oregon, in Nosotros, Essays and Recollections: The Hispanic People of Oregon (Oregon Council for the Humanities 1995)

Editorials

Our Laws Should Encourage, Not Bar, Multilingualism, Eugene Register Guard, April 4, 1996, at 13A