Christopher P. Banks is a professor of political science at Kent State University. He earned his Ph.D. in American politics at the University of Virginia and a law degree from the University of Dayton School of Law. He practiced law in civil and criminal litigation before completing his doctorate. He was also active in local and state politics, leading to his gubernatorial appointment to serve an administrative hearing officer for the Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities. At Kent State, he is the Director of the College of Arts and Sciences Pre-Law Center; and he has served as pre-law advisor. With over twenty-years of classroom experience, he teaches courses in the judicial process, the American legal profession, constitutional law, government powers, civil rights and liberties, law and society, criminal justice, terrorism, American political theory, and American politics. He has numerous publications on U.S. Supreme Court politics, judicial behavior, law and politics, federalism, terrorism, and human rights in leading law and political science journals. His most recent books include The American Legal Profession: The Myths and Realities of Practicing Law 2nd ed. (Routledge, 2023); The Judicial Process: Law, Courts, and Judicial Politics 2nd ed. (West Academic Publishing, 2020), The American Legal Profession: The Myths and Realities of Practicing Law (Sage/CQ Press, 2017) and Controversies in American Federalism and Public Policy (Routledge, 2018).
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