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Ward Farnsworth


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Ward Farnsworth is Dean and John Jeffers Research Chair at the University of Texas School of Law. He formerly was Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law at the Boston University Law School. He has served as a law clerk to Anthony M. Kennedy of the United States Supreme Court and to Richard A. Posner of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and worked as a Legal Adviser to the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal in the Hague. He received his J.D. with high honors from the University of Chicago Law School, and his B.A. from Wesleyan University.

Farnsworth is the author of books on law, philosophy, rhetoric, and chess. He also has published scholarly articles on the economic analysis of law, constitutional
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The Practicing Stoic

4.35 avg rating — 4,480 ratings — published 2018 — 18 editions
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The Socratic Method: A Prac...

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The Legal Analyst: A Toolki...

4.27 avg rating — 600 ratings — published 2007 — 11 editions
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Farnsworth's Classical Engl...

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Farnsworth's Classical Engl...

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Predator at the Chessboard ...

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Farnsworth's Classical Engl...

4.24 avg rating — 91 ratings — published 2015 — 7 editions
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Torts: Cases and Questions

3.57 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 2004 — 14 editions
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“The first principle of practical Stoicism is this: we don’t react to events; we react to our judgments about them, and the judgments are up to us.”
Ward Farnsworth, The Practicing Stoic

“But the law's dream - anyone's dream - would be to turn the clock back and stop the bad thing from happening in the first place.”
Ward Farnsworth, The Legal Analyst: A Toolkit for Thinking about the Law

“Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and if they will not adapt to me, I adapt to them. Montaigne, Of Presumption (1580)”
Ward Farnsworth, The Practicing Stoic: A Philosophical User's Manual

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