Richard Thompson Ford is the George E. Osborne Professor of Law at Stanford Law School. An expert on civil rights and anti-discrimination law, Richard Thompson Ford 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. His work has focused on the social and legal conflicts surrounding claims of discrimination, on the causes and effects of racial segregation, and on the use of territorial boundaries as instruments of social regulation.

 

He has published regularly in Slate, the Boston Review, the San Jose Mercury News, and the San Francisco Chronicle as well as in several prestigious academic journals including the Harvard Law Review and the Stanford Law Review. He is the author of Racial Culture: A Critique and The Race Card: How Bluffing About Bias Makes Race Relations Worse.