Richard Thompson Ford

Richard Thompson Ford teaches at Stanford Law School and is the author of several books. His forthcoming book is entitled Dress Codes: How Rules About Clothing Shaped the Modern World.

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Local Leaders, Not Trump, Are Leading the Coronavirus Response

Richard Thompson Ford

April 13, 2020 1:32 PM

Why Americans Are So Resistant to Masks

Richard Thompson Ford

April 10, 2020 2:43 PM

Jeff Sessions’ Reactionary Attack on Affirmative Action Is Doomed to Fail

Richard Thompson Ford

Aug 03, 2017 4:40 PM

Why Banning Dreadlocks at Work Isn’t Racially Discriminatory, Even If It Should Be Illegal

Richard Thompson Ford

Oct 10, 2016 5:50 AM

The Secret Danger in the Supreme Court’s Affirmative Action Ruling

Richard Thompson Ford

June 27, 2013 3:40 PM

Affirmative Action Will Live Even if the Supreme Court Kills It

Richard Thompson Ford

Oct 12, 2012 1:21 PM

How We Can Break Judges’ Stranglehold on the Constitution

Richard Thompson Ford

June 20, 2012 6:06 PM

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Why the Supreme Court Should Never Have Taken the Texas Affirmative Action Case

Richard Thompson Ford

Feb 29, 2012 7:19 AM

Why Civil Rights Lawsuits Are Becoming Irrelevant in the Fight for Social Justice

Richard Thompson Ford

Nov 03, 2011 10:18 AM

Why It’s Not Always Best To Treat Education as a Civil Right.

Richard Thompson Ford

Nov 02, 2011 11:50 AM

How the Civil Rights Movement Led to a Ban on Ladies’ Nights.

Richard Thompson Ford

Nov 01, 2011 4:26 PM

Wal-Mart lawsuit: The Supreme Court’s most important case this year.

Richard Thompson Ford

March 28, 2011 1:49 PM

Rick Snyder plan: Is it legal for Michigan and other states to take over local governments?

Richard Thompson Ford

March 15, 2011 4:19 PM

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Stuart Buck has a startling explanation for Acting White. 

Richard Thompson Ford

July 05, 2010 6:47 AM

Why lawsuits based on looks discrimination—even good ones—are a bad idea.

Richard Thompson Ford

June 11, 2010 5:33 PM

Black firefighter Michael Briscoe is suing New Haven.

Richard Thompson Ford

Oct 23, 2009 7:12 AM

A primer on the word racism.

Richard Thompson Ford

Sept 30, 2009 12:39 PM

The arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Richard Thompson Ford

July 23, 2009 3:31 PM

The damage done by the Supreme Court in the New Haven firefighters case.

Richard Thompson Ford

July 02, 2009 1:19 PM

If Frank Ricci loses his discrimination claim, blame the Supreme Court’s conservatives.

Richard Thompson Ford

June 16, 2009 1:57 PM

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