Ward Farnsworth
Legal scholar and author
Ward Farnsworth is an American legal scholar and a professor at the University of Texas School of Law. He has written books on law, rhetoric, philosophy and chess.
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American Born 1967 in Evanston, United States
About Ward Farnsworth
Ward Farnsworth was dean of the University of Texas School of Law from 2012 to 2022 and is a professor of law there. Earlier he taught at Boston University School of Law, where he was associate dean for academic affairs. He clerked for Justice Anthony M. Kennedy of the US Supreme Court and for Judge Richard A. Posner of the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. He also worked as a legal adviser at the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal in The Hague. Farnsworth studied at Wesleyan University and earned his law degree at the University of Chicago. He has served as Reporter for the American Law Institute's Restatement Third, Torts: Liability for Economic Harm. His books include The Practicing Stoic.