Richard T Ford

Richard T. Ford is George E. Osborne Professor of Law at Stanford. He has published in numerous legal journals including the Harvard Law Review and Stanford Law Review. His is co-author of Local Government Law and The Legal Geographies Reader What is black culture? Does it have an essence? What do we lose and gain by assuming that it does, and by building our laws accordingly? This bold and provocative book questions the common presumption of political...

In Dress Codes, law professor and cultural critic Richard Thompson Ford presents a "deeply informative and entertaining" (The New York Times Book Review) history of the laws of fashion from the middle ages to the present day, a walk down history?s red carpet to uncover and examine the canons, mores, and customs of clothing?rules that we often take for granted. After reading Dress Codes, you?ll never think of fashion as superficial again?and getting...

"Since the 1960s, ideas developed during the civil rights movement have been astonishingly successful in fighting overt discriminaƯtion and prejudice. But how successful are they at combating the whole spectrum of social injustice--including conditions that aren't directly caused by bigotry? How do they stand up to segregation, for instance--a legacy of racism, but not the direct result of ongoing discriminaƯtion? It's tempting to believe that civil...