From Lee Strang's excellent review of Richard Thompson Ford's Rights Gone Wrong: How Law Corrupts the Struggle for Equality: After reading, in the first four chapters, Ford’s relatively detailed description of the civil rights movement’s pathologies, I was surprised by the relative thinness of his recommendations.  Indeed, Ford recognizes that his prescriptions are insubstantial stating that “begin is all I aspire to have done in this book.”  However, Ford’s move toward an administrative solution is open to obvious counter-arguments that he neither raises nor addresses, and Rights Gone Wrong would have been more persuasive had he done so.  Relatedly, Ford’s continual…

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