Richard Thompson Ford
George E. Osborne Professor of Law

Publications & Cases

Recent Publications

Richard Thompson Ford, Take God to Work Day, Slate (June 13, 2005).
Richard Thompson Ford, But the Scouts, Your Honor, Slate (May 6, 2005).
Richard Thompson Ford, The Case for Liberal Federalism, Slate (January 6, 2005).
Richard Thompson Ford, The New Blue Federalists, Slate, January 6, 2005.
Richard Thomson Ford, Political Identity as Identity Politics, 1 Unbound: Harvard Journal of the Legal Left 53 (2005).
Richard Thompson Ford, Racial Culture: A Critique, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005.
Richard Thompson Ford, Courting Trouble: Love, Gay Marriage and Litigation Strategy, in The Best American Legal Commentary 2005, Rosemary Passantino, ed., Boca Raton, FL: Universal Publishers, 2005. p. 29-35.
Richard Thomson Ford. Police Don’t Fight Wars, BOSTON REVIEW, December 3, 2004.
Richard T. Ford, Why Americans Hate Democrats -- a Dialogue, Slate (November 8, 2004).
Richard T. Ford, Intimidation Nation: Who Will Watch the Poll-Watchers?, Slate (November 2, 2004).
Richard Thompson Ford. Name Games: The Folly In The Attempts To Define 'African-American', Slate, September 16, 2004.
Richard T. Ford, Courting Trouble: A Story of Love, Marriage, and Litigation Strategy, Slate (June 1, 2004).
Richard Thompson Ford, Brown's Ghost, 117 Harvard Law Review 1305-1333 (March 2004).
Richard T. Ford, Civil Disobedience: San Francisco Chooses the Wrong Way to Flout the State, Slate (February 23, 2004).
Richard T. Ford, Down by Law, in, A Way Out : America's Ghettos and the Legacy of Racism. Owen M. Fiss. Joshua Cohen, Jefferson Decker, and Joel Rogers, editors. Princeton University Press, 2003. p. 47-50.
Richard T. Ford, Nicholas Blomley, and David Delaney, The Legal Geographies Reader: Law, Power and Space., Malden, Mass: Blackwell, 2001. 328 pages.
Richard Thompson Ford, The Boundaries of Race, in, A Reader on Race, Civil Rights and American Law: a Multiracial Approach. Timothy Davis, Kevin R. Johnson and George A. Martinez, editors. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2001. pp. 179-181.
Richard Ford, Down By Law, Boston Review, p. 11-14 (Summer 2000).
Richard Thompson Ford, Law's Territory (A History of Jurisdiction), 97 Michigan Law Review 843-930 (1999).
Richard T. Ford, Facts and Values in Pragmatism and Personhood: A Review of Margaret Jane Radin's Reinterpreting Property, 48 Stanford Law Review 217-246 (1996).

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