Richard Thompson Ford

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Affirmative-Action Jurisprudence Reflects American Racial Animosity, but Is Also Unhappy in Its Own Special Way
Richard Thompson Ford
Richard Thompson Ford is Professor of Law at Stanford Law School. He is the author of the New York Times notable books The Race Card and Rights Gone Wrong: How Law Corrupts the Struggle for Equality. He is a member of the American Law Institute and serves on the board of the Authors Guild Foundation.

He thanks Taiyee Chien for his editorial assistance and exceptional patience. 

What’s still interesting is that the affirmative-action wars reflect larger issues, such as the betrayed promise of the civil-rights legislation and the Fourteenth Amendment guarantee of equal protection as well as the dishonesty, denial, and dysfunction surrounding questions of racial justice more generally.

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