Ward Farnsworth

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Ward Farnsworth
Born Evanston, IL
Nationality American
Alma mater Wesleyan University
University of Chicago Law School
Occupation Dean
Employer University of Texas School of Law
Website
http://www.wardfarnsworth.com/
http://www.chesstactics.org/

Ward Farnsworth (born 1967)[1] is the dean of the University of Texas School of Law (effective June 1, 2012) and author of books and academic articles on a range of subjects.

Farnsworth graduated from Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut in 1989 (B.A.) and with high honors from the University of Chicago Law School in 1994 (J.D.), 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.

References

  1. The AALS Directory of Law Teachers (West Pub. Co., 2005), p. 459.

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