Richard Thompson Ford
George E. Osborne Professor of Law

Publications & Cases

Recent Publications

Richard Ford, Home Rule in the Breach (Convictions: Slate's Blog on Legal Issues), Slate.com, April 10, 2008.
Richard Ford, Family Friendly Law Schools (Convictions: Slate's Blog on Legal Issues), Slate.com, April 10, 2008.
Richard Ford, Family Friendly Legal Practice: Why Not (Convictions: Slate's Blog on Legal Issues), Slate.com, April 9, 2008.
Richard Ford, Which is Worse? Racism, or Sexism, or Asking Which is Worse? (Convictions: Slate's Blog on Legal Issues), Slate.com, April 2, 2008.
Richard Ford, Obama: Law Professor or Resume Fluffer? (Convictions: Slate's Blog on Legal Issues), Slate.com, March 27, 2008.
Richard Thompson Ford, Obama Took the Risk to Confront Race Relations in America, San Francisco Chronicle, March 26, 2008, pg. B9.
Richard Ford, Hitchens on Obama: Reactions? (Convictions: Slate's Blog on Legal Issues), Slate.com, March 26, 2008.
Richard Ford, Equal Pay Bill (Convictions: Slate's Blog on Legal Issues), Slate.com, April 24, 2008.
Richard Ford, Colorblindness in Snyder? (Convictions: Slate's Blog on Legal Issues), Slate.com, March 19, 2008.
Richard Ford, Obama on Wright and Race (Convictions: Slate's Blog on Legal Issues), Slate.com, March 19, 2008.
Richard Thompson Ford, Stop Playing the Race Card, Christian Science Monitor, March 6, 2008.
Richard Thompson Ford, Play the Race Card at Your Own Peril, Washington Post, February 17, 2007, pg. B1.
Richard Thompson Ford, The Race Card: How Bluffing About Bias Makes Race Relations Worse , New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, January 2008.
Richard Thompson Ford, Who's Afraid for Obama? Slate, January 8, 2008.
Richard Thompson Ford, The Wrong Poster Children: Why the Jena 6 protests have gone awry., Slate, Jurisprudence: The law, lawyers, and the court. Monday, September 24, 2007; 4:25 PM ET
Richard Thompson Ford, Bad Think, Slate, May 30, 2007.
Richard Thompson Ford, The Irrelevance of Soft Bigotry, Slate, February 2, 2007.
Richard Thompson Ford, Hate and Marriage: Same-sex Marriage Setbacks May Not Be All Bad News For Gay Rights, Slate, July 12, 2006.
Richard Thompson Ford, Junk Bonds: What Baseball Can Teach Us About Anti-discrimination Law, Slate, June 5, 2006.
Richard Thomson Ford, But the Scouts, Your Honor, Stanford Lawyer, Fall 2005, p. 40.

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