Ward Farnsworth is a law professor at Boston University

Boston University

Boston University is a private research university located in Boston, Massachusetts. With more than 4,000 faculty members and more than 31,000 students, Boston University is one of the largest private universities in the United States and one of Boston's largest employers...

 and author of books and
academic articles on a range of subjects.

Farnsworth graduated with high honors from University of Chicago Law School

University of Chicago Law School

The University of Chicago Law School was founded in 1902 as the graduate school of law at the University of Chicago and is among the most prestigious and selective law schools in the world. The U.S. News & World Report currently ranks it fifth among U.S...

 in 1994, where he served on the law review and was Hinton moot court

Moot court

A moot court is an extracurricular activity at many law schools in which participants take part in simulated court proceedings, usually to include drafting briefs and participating in oral argument. The term derives from Anglo Saxon times, when a moot was a gathering of prominent men in a...

 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

United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

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. He also served as Legal Adviser to the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal

Iran-United States Claims Tribunal

The Iran-United States Claims Tribunal is an international arbitral tribunal established out of an agreement between Iran and the United States, under an understanding known as the Algiers Accords of January 19, 1981. The Algiers Accords were the outcome of negotiations between Iran and the United...

 in The Hague.

He has published scholarship on tort

Tort

A tort, in common law jurisdictions, is a wrong that involves a breach of a civil duty owed to someone else. It is differentiated from a crime, which involves a breach of a duty owed to society in general...

 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

American Law Institute

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’s Restatement of the Law

Restatement of the Law

In American jurisprudence, the Restatements of the Law are a set of treatises on legal subjects that seek to inform judges and lawyers about general principles of common law...

Third, Torts: Liability for Economic Harm.

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