Richard Thompson Ford
George E. Osborne Professor of Law

Publications & Cases

Recent Publications

Richard Thompson Ford, Law and Borders, 64 Alabama Law Review 123 (2012).
Richard Thompson Ford, Fisher Cut Bait: Affirmative Action Will Live on Even if the Supreme Court Kills It, Slate, Oct. 12, 2012.
Richard Thompson Ford, Online Fisher Symposium: Leave Civil Rights and College Admissions to the Pros--or the People, SCOTUSblog, September 6, 2012.
Richard Thompson Ford, Who Will Save Us from the Courts?, (How Can We Fix the Constitution?), Slate, June 20, 2012.
Richard Thompson Ford, Bad Marriage: Why the Supreme Court Should Stay Out of Affirmative Action, Slate, February 29, 2012.
Richard Thompson Ford, "Civil Rights and Diminishing Returns: Time for a New Approach to Social Injustice, ACS BookTalk, February 2, 2012.
Richard Thompson Ford, Cultural Rights Versus Civic Virtue? (Dilemmas of Multiculturalism), 95 The Monist 151 (2012).
Richard Thompson Ford, Beyond Good and Evil in Civil Rights Law: The Case of Wal-Mart v. Dukes, (2011 Working Group on the Future of Systemic Disparate Treatment), 32 Berkeley Journal of Employment & Labor Law 513 (2011).
Richard Thompson Ford, Universal Rights Down to Earth, New York: W.W. Norton, 2011.
Richard Thompson Ford, Why Civil Rights Lawsuits Are Becoming Irrelevant in the Fight For Social Justice, Slate, Nov. 3, 2011.
Richard Thompson Ford, Why It’s Not Always Best to Treat Education as a Civil Right, Slate, Nov. 2, 2011.
Richard Thompson Ford, How the Civil Rights Movement Led to a Ban on Ladies' Nights, Slate, Nov. 1, 2011.
Richard Thompson Ford, Moving Beyond Civil Rights, New York Times, Oct. 28, 2011, p. A23.
Richard Thompson Ford, Rights Gone Wrong: How Law Corrupts the Struggle for Equality , New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011.
Richard Thompson Ford, When We Talk about Race, Book review of: The End of Anger: A New Generation's Take on Race and Rage by Ellis Cose, New York Times Book Review, July 3, 2011, p. 12.
Richard Thompson Ford, Everyday Discrimination: Why the Wal-Mart Sex-Bias Lawsuit Is the Most Important Case the Supreme Court Will Hear This Year, Slate, March 28, 2011.
Richard Thompson Ford, A State's Right; Why States, Like Michigan, Have the Power to Take Over Local Governments, Slate, March 15, 2011.
Richard Thompson Ford, How to Understand "Acting White": Could Desegregation Have Caused the Culture of Academic Underperformance?. Slate, July 5, 2010.
Richard Thompson Ford, Too Sexy for My Bosses: Why Lawsuits Based on Looks Discrimination--Even Good Ones--Are a Bad Idea, Slate, June 11, 2010.
Richard Thompson Ford, Faith-Based Defiance, New York Times (Sunday Book Review), February 7, 2010, pg. 18.

rford@stanford.edu

650.723.2796

Education:

BA Stanford University 1988
JD Harvard Law School 1991

Expertise:

Antidiscrimination Law
Critical Theory
Jurisprudence
Law and Geography
Local and State Government
Local Government
Race and the Law