Richard Thompson Ford
Author of Dress Codes: How the laws of fashion made history
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Richard Thompson Ford is a Professor at Stanford Law School. He has written about law, social and cultural issues, and race relations for the New York Times, The Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, and Slate, and has appeared on The Colbert Report and The Rachel Maddow Show. He is the author show more of the New York Times notable books The Race Card and Rights Gone Wrong: How Law Corrupts the Struggle for Equality. He lives in San Francisco. show less
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- Birthdate
- 1966-06
- Gender
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- USA
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- Stanford University (BA | 1988)
Harvard Law School (JD | 1991) - Occupations
- lawyer
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- Stanford University
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- Richard Thompson Ford is the George E. Osborne Professor of Law at Stanford Law School. An expert on civil rights and antidiscrimination law, he has distinguished himself as an insightful voice and compelling writer on questions of race and multiculturalism. His scholarship combines social criticism and legal analysis and he writes for both popular readers and for academic and legal specialists. He has written for the Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Christian Science Monitor and for Slate, where he is a regular contributor, and has appeared on The Colbert Report and The Rachel Maddow Show. In 2012 ON BEING A BLACK LAWYER selected him as one of the 100 Most Influential Black Lawyers in the Nation. [from Amazon author page, retrieved 03/15/2021]
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