| Ward Farnsworth | |
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| Born | Evanston, IL |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Chicago Law School |
| Occupation | Professor |
| Employer | Boston University Law School |
| Website | |
| http://www.wardfarnsworth.com/ http://www.chesstactics.org/ |
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Ward Farnsworth (born 1967)[1] is a law professor at Boston University and author of books and academic articles on a range of subjects.
Farnsworth graduated with high honors from University of Chicago Law School in 1994, where he served on the law review and was Hinton moot court co-champion. He served as a law clerk for Justice Anthony M. Kennedy of the United States Supreme Court and for Richard A. Posner on the Seventh Circuit. He also served as Legal Adviser to the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal in The Hague.
He has published scholarship on tort law, judicial decision making, and legal interpretation, and is co-author of Torts: Cases and Problems (2d ed. Aspen 2009) (with Mark Grady). He is author of The Legal Analyst: A Toolkit for Thinking About the Law (Chicago 2007), Farnsworth’s Classical English Rhetoric (David R. Godine 2010), and a pair of books about chess available on the internet. He is the Reporter for the American Law Institute’s Restatement of the Law Third, Torts: Liability for Economic Harm.