Richard Thompson Ford

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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]

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[4]
  • The Race Card: How Bluffing About Bias Makes Race Relations Worse. Macmillan, 2008. ISBN 9780374245757[1][5]
  • 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.

References

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External links

  • Biography. Stanford University. Retrieved June 16, 2016.