Richard Thompson Ford is a professor of law at Stanford University. He is the author of five books, including The Race Card (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008), Rights Gone Wrong: How Law Corrupts the Struggle for Equality (FSG, 2011), and Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History (Simon & Schuster, 2021).
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The Review | Opinion
Colleges must follow the law. But they don’t need to help the court fulfill its worst ambitions.
The Review | Essay
You can’t stop racial discrimination without considering race.
The Review | Essay
The Supreme Court has watered down the policy’s core justification: justice.