Professor Paul Bender was quoted recently in The Arizona Republic on the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on SB 1070.

In an article titled, “Arizona immigration law turmoil remains after ruling,” by reporters Alia Beard Rau and Shaun McKinnon, Bender said, "This ruling is going to scare people and misinform people, and it may affect their behavior, but it doesn't mean anything," Bender told The Republic. "And if it does mean something, then it's unconstitutional."

Read the article here.  

Bender teaches courses on U.S. and Arizona constitutional law. He has written extensively about constitutional law, intellectual property and Indian law, and is coauthor of the two-volume casebook/treatise, Political and Civil Rights in the United States. Bender has argued more than 20 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, and actively participates in constitutional litigation in federal and state courts