Richard Thompson Ford is Professor of Law at Stanford Law School. He writes about law, social and cultural issues and race relations, and has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, and CNN. 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 has appeared on The Colbert Report, The Rachel Maddow Show, and The Dylan Ratigan Show. Thompson Ford is a member of the American Law Institute and serves on the board of the Authors Guild Foundation. Quite to his surprise, he was one of 25 semi-finalists in Esquire magazine’s Best Dressed Real Man contest in 2009.