Content deleted Content added
m tags fixed |
m +link |
||
| (8 intermediate revisions by 5 users not shown) | |||
Line 1:
{{Short description|American legal and race critical scholar}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Patricia
| image = Patricia J. Williams.jpg
|
| birth_place = [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]], U.S.
| death_date =
| death_place =
| education = [[Wellesley College]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])<br
▲| education = [[Wellesley College]]<br />[[Harvard Law School]]
}}
'''Patricia J. Williams''' (born August 28, 1951) is an American [[legal scholar]] and a proponent of [[critical race theory]], a school of legal thought that emphasizes [[Race (classification of human beings)|race]] as a fundamental determinant of the [[United States|American]] [[legal system]].<ref>Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic, ''Critical Race Theory: An Introduction'' (New York: New York University Press, 2001)</ref>
==Early life==
Williams received her [[bachelor's degree]] from [[Wellesley College]] in 1972, and her [[Juris Doctor]] from [[Harvard Law School]] in 1975.{{
==Career==
Line 27 ⟶ 21:
Williams has 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.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Patricia J. Williams|url=https://www.law.columbia.edu/faculty/patricia-j-williams|access-date=May 27, 2021|website=www.law.columbia.edu|language=en}}</ref>
Williams writes a column for ''[[The Nation (U.S. periodical)|The Nation]]'' magazine titled "Diary of a Mad Law Professor." Her column for ''The Nation'' has recently changed from bi-weekly to monthly. The Mad-Law-Professor (SM) is also the name of a super hero that she created.{{
== Awards and honors==
She was the recipient of a [[MacArthur Fellowship]], which she held from June 2000 until June 2005.{{
On March 1, 2013, Columbia Law School's Center for Gender & Sexuality Law honored her with a symposium<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://web.law.columbia.edu/gender-sexuality/events/symposia/spring-2013-symposium|title = The Center for Gender and Sexuality Law|publisher=Columbia Law School}}</ref> featuring [[Anita Hill]], [[Lani Guinier]], and others.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bitchmagazine.org/post/adventures-in-feministory-patricia-j-williams|title=Adventures in Feministory: Law Professor Patricia J. Williams Opens Up|last=Bello|first=Grace|website=Bitch Media|date=March 4, 2013|access-date=March 11, 2013}}</ref>
She was elected a Member of the [[American Philosophical Society]] in 2019.{{
On March 30, 2022, she received an [https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/events/honorary-degrees/honorary-degrees-2022/#msdynttrid=UVsQYtUhweDipyYp14sCPYZlYdY_eW7JjdFSUMQExTA honorary degree] from the Faculty of Law, [[University of Antwerp]] "in recognition of her expertise in the field of race, gender, literature & law and her outstanding contribution to legal and ethical debates on society, science and technology in the light of individual autonomy and identity."<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/events/honorary-degrees/honorary-degrees-2022/#msdynttrid=UVsQYtUhweDipyYp14sCPYZlYdY_eW7JjdFSUMQExTA | title=Honorary degrees 2022 | Honorary degrees | University of Antwerp }}</ref>
Line 57 ⟶ 51:
*{{Charlie Rose view|42}}
*{{IMDb name|3589778}}
*[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00ghvkl "Patricia Williams, The Genealogy of Race"],''The Reith Lectures'', [[BBC Radio 4]], 1997
*[http://findingaids.cul.columbia.edu/ead/nnc-ccoh/ldpd_11594421/dsc Oral History interview with Patricia Williams, 2014, IRWGS Oral History collection, Columbia Center for Oral History Archives]
Line 83 ⟶ 76:
[[Category:University of Wisconsin Law School faculty]]
[[Category:Wellesley College alumni]]
[[Category:
[[Category:Writers from Boston]]
[[Category:21st-century African-American academics]]
[[Category:21st-century American academics]]
[[Category:African-American women academics]]
| |||