Background
Patricia Joyce Williams was born on August 28, 1951 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
06 Central St, Wellesley, MA 02481, USA
Patricia Williams received her bachelor's degree from Wellesley College in 1972.
Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Patricia Williams received her Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School in 1975.
("The Alchemy of Race and Rights" is an eloquent autobiogr...)
"The Alchemy of Race and Rights" is an eloquent autobiographical essay in which the author reflects on the intersection of race, gender, and class. Using the tools of critical literary and legal theory, she sets out her views of contemporary popular culture and current events, from Howard Beach to homelessness, from Tawana Brawley to the law-school classrom, from civil rights to Oprah Winfrey, from Bernhard Goetz to Marth Beth Whitehead.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B015QNQIA6/?tag=2022091-20
1991
("Blind Goddess" brings together the most significant writ...)
"Blind Goddess" brings together the most significant writings of practitioners, professors, and advocates to make sense of what is perhaps the nation’s most astonishing and shameful achievement: the highest per capita incarceration of its citizens anywhere in the world, compounded by the shockingly disproportionate imprisonment of poor people of color.
https://www.amazon.com/Blind-Goddess-Reader-Race-Justice/dp/1595586997/?tag=2022091-20
2011
Patricia Joyce Williams was born on August 28, 1951 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
Patricia Williams received her bachelor's degree from Wellesley College in 1972, and her Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School in 1975. At Harvard, she was one of ten black women in her graduating class of 536.
Patricia Williams worked as a consumer advocate in the office of the City Attorney in Los Angeles. Upon leaving practice, she served as an associate professor of law at Golden Gate University from 1980 to 1984, then at Queen’s College City University of New York during 1984-1988. From 1988 to 1991 she was an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin. She also served on the faculties of Harvard University Women’s Studies Program, and CUNY Law School at Queen’s College.
Patricia Williams has also served on the advisory council for the Medgar Evers College for Law and Social Justice of the City University of New York, the board of trustees of Wellesley College, and on the board of governors for the Society of American Law Teachers, among others.
Besides, Williams writes a column for The Nation magazine titled "Diary of a Mad Law Professor". Her column for The Nation has recently changed from bi-weekly to monthly. She also authored a number of books, including "The Alchemy of Race and Rights", "The Rooster’s Egg", "Seeing a Color-Blind Future: The Paradox of Race", and "Open House: On Family, Food, Piano Lessons, and The Search for a Room of My Own".
Patricia Williams is currently the James L. Dohr Professor of Law at Columbia University where she has taught since 1991.
Additionally, Patricia Williams has appeared on radio and television shows around the world, and in 1997 delivered the annual Reith Lectures for the BBC, Radio Four. She has appeared in a number of documentary films, including “That Rush!” which she wrote and narrated.
("Blind Goddess" brings together the most significant writ...)
2011("The Alchemy of Race and Rights" is an eloquent autobiogr...)
1991Williams is examining the intersecting racial, gender, and class formations in Boston and Cambridge by way of her family’s archival narratives and memorabilia, which are housed at the Schlesinger Library of Radcliffe Institute. Her project brings together public humanities, archive and genealogy studies, memoir studies, black feminist history, and New England history to illuminate a story of generations of black Boston life from the antebellum period to the present.
Williams is a member of the State Bar of California and the Bar of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. During 2017-2018 she was a Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Fellow at Columbia University School of Law.
Williams was also elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2019.