Richard Thompson Ford

Richard Thompson Ford is George E. Osborne Professor of Law at Stanford Law School.[1] His scholarship includes work on critical race theory, local government law, housing segregation, and employment discrimination. He has served as a housing commissioner for the San Francisco Housing Commission,[2] and continues to work with local governments on issues of affordable housing and segregation. His book Rights Gone Wrong: How Law Corrupts the Struggle for Equality was chosen as one of the New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2011.[3]

He graduated from Stanford University and Harvard Law School.[4]

Selected publications
  • Universal Rights Down to Earth. New York: W.W. Norton & Co, 2011. ISBN 9780393079005
  • Rights Gone Wrong: How Law Corrupts the Struggle for Equality. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011. ISBN 9780374250355[5]
  • The Race Card: How Bluffing About Bias Makes Race Relations Worse. Macmillan, 2008. ISBN 9780374245757[1][6]
  • Racial Culture: A Critique (Princeton University Pr., 2005).
  • "The Boundaries of Race: Political Geography in Legal Analysis." Harvard Law Review (1994): 1841-1921.
  • "Beyond "Difference" : A Reluctant Critique of Legal Identity Politics" in: Left legalism/left critique. Eds. Wendy Brown, and Janet Halley. Duke University Press, 2002. ISBN 9780822329756
  • "Geography and Sovereignty: Jurisdictional Formation and Racial Segregation." Stanford Law Review (1997): 1365-1445.
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References
  1. Grimes, William (February 6, 2008). "Colorblind Conclusions on Racism". New York Times.
  2. "Ford appointed to SF housing commission:8/27/97". news.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2016-03-04.
  3. "100 Notable Books of 2011". The New York Times. 2011-11-21. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  4. https://law.stanford.edu/directory/richard-thompson-ford/
  5. Rosen, Jeffrey (November 11, 2011). "Misunderstanding Racial Justice". New York Times.
  6. "Richard Thompson Ford". Comedy Central. Retrieved 2016-03-03.
  • Biography. Stanford University. Retrieved June 16, 2016.
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