Richard Thompson Ford is George E. Osborne Professor of Law at

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. His scholarship includes work on

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, local government law,

housing segregation Housing segregation in the United States is the practice of denying African Americans and other minority groups equal access to housing through the process of misinformation, denial of realty and financing services, and racial steering. Housing ...

, and

employment discrimination Employment discrimination is a form of illegal discrimination in the workplace based on legally protected characteristics. In the U.S., federal anti-discrimination law prohibits discrimination by employers against employees based on age, race, g ...

. He has served as a housing commissioner for the San Francisco Housing Commission, 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 ''

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'' 100 Notable Books of 2011. He graduated with a BA from

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in 1988 and a JD from

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in 1991.

Selected publications

* ''Dress Codes.'' Simon & Schuster, 2021. * ''Universal Rights Down to Earth.'' New York: W.W. Norton & Co, 2011. * ''Rights Gone Wrong: How Law Corrupts the Struggle for Equality.'' New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011. * ''The Race Card: How Bluffing About Bias Makes Race Relations Worse.'' Macmillan, 2008. * 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. * "Geography and Sovereignty: Jurisdictional Formation and Racial Segregation." Stanford Law Review (1997): 1365-1445.

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Biography
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