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William Ford received his law degree from the University of Chicago in 2003, where he was the symposium editor for the University of Chicago Legal Forum and co-chair of the Hinton Moot Court Competition. After law school, Professor Ford worked for the Los Angeles firm of Irell & Manella and then returned to the University of Chicago Law School as a Bigelow Teaching Fellow and Lecturer in Law.
Professor Ford came to John Marshall as a visiting professor in 2006 and joined the full-time faculty in 2007. He teaches Contracts, Federal Courts, Unfair Competition and Trade Regulation, and Video Game Law.
Publications
"The Rehnquist Court in Empirical and Statistical Retrospective: An Empirical Analysis of the Confirmation Hearings of the Justices of the Rehnquist Natural Court," 24 Constitutional Commentary 127 (2007) (w/ Jason Czarnezki and Lori Ringhand).
"Judging Expertise in Copyright Law," 14 Journal of Intellectual Property 1 (2006).
"The Phantom Philosophy? An Empirical Investigation of Legal Interpretation," 65 Maryland Law Review 841 (2006) (w/ Jason Czarnezki).
Presentations
52nd
Annual Intellectual Property Law Conference, The John Marshall
Law School Center
for Intellectual Property Law, "Gaming the Right of Publicity," Chicago, Illinois, February 29, 2008
Intellectual Property Scholars Conference, DePaul University School of Law, "The Use of Trademarks in Video Games: Focusing on the First Amendment," Chicago, Illinois, August 10, 2007.
First Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, University of Texas School of Law, "An Empirical Analysis of Dissensus on the United States Courts of Appeals," Austin, Texas, October 2006.
University of Kentucky Randall-Park Distinguished Speakers Series, "Revelations in Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings? An Empirical Analysis of the Rehnquist Court," Lexington, Kentucky, October 2006.
Law & Society Association Annual Meeting, "An Empirical Analysis of Dissensus on the United States Courts of Appeals," Baltimore, Maryland, July 2006.
Chicago Junior Faculty Workshop, "Judging Expertise in Copyright Law," Chicago, Illinois, April 2006.
Chicago Junior Faculty Workshop, "The Phantom Philosophy?," Chicago, Illinois, October 2005.
The University of Chicago Law School Works-in-Progress Workshop, "The Phantom Philosophy?," Chicago, Illinois, September 2005.
Law & Society Association Annual Meeting, "The Phantom Philosophy?," Las Vegas, Nevada, June 2005.
Marquette University Law School Faculty Workshop, "The Phantom Philosophy?," Milwaukee, Wisconsin, May 2005.
The University of Chicago Legal Scholarship Workshop, "The Phantom Philosophy?," Chicago, Illinois, May 2003.
Memberships
American Political Science Association
Federalist Society
Law & Society Association
Midwest Political Science Association
State Bar of California
Other
Editor/Contributor, Empirical Legal Studies Blog (http://www.elsblog.org/)
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