Ward Farnsworth

Ward Farnsworth is an American legal scholar, author, and professor of law at the University of Texas School of Law, where he holds the W. Page Keeton Chair and served as dean from 2012 to 2022. A graduate of Wesleyan University and the University of Chicago Law School, he clerked for Judge Richard A. Posner and Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy. He has written books on law, philosophy, rhetoric, and chess, including 'The Practicing Stoic', 'The Socratic Method', and 'The Legal Analyst'.