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{{Short description|American legal and race critical scholar}}
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| birth_place = [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]], U.S.
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| education = [[Wellesley College]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])<br>[[Harvard University]] ([[Juris Doctor|JD]])
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'''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.{{citation needed|date=November 2021}}
==Career==
Williams worked as a consumer advocate in the office of the City Attorney in Los Angeles, was a fellow in the School of Criticism and Theory at [[Dartmouth College]] and served as [[associate professor]] at the [[University of Wisconsin Law School]] and its department of women's studies. She was formerly the James L. Dohr Professor of Law at [[Columbia University]] where she has taught since 1991.<ref>Kinohi Nishikawa, "Patricia J. Williams," ''The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Literature,'' ed. Hans Ostrom and J. David Macey, Jr. (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005), 1747–49.</ref>
As of July 1, 2019, she is the incoming Director of Law, Technology, and Ethics at [[Northeastern University]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tOCHuXP7ds&t=13s|title = Algorithms and the Law|publisher=Simons Institute|website = [[YouTube]]|date= July 2, 2019}}</ref>
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>
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.{{citation needed|date=November 2021}}
== Awards and honors==
She was the recipient of a [[MacArthur Fellowship]], which she held from June 2000 until June 2005.{{citation needed|date=November 2021}}
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|
She was elected a Member of the [[American Philosophical Society]] in 2019.{{citation needed|date=November 2021}}
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>
== Bibliography ==
* ''[[The Alchemy of Race and Rights|The Alchemy of Race and Rights: A Diary of a Law Professor]]'' (1991) ({{ISBN|0-674-01470-7}})
* ''
* ''Seeing a Color-Blind Future: The Paradox of Race'' (1997) ({{ISBN|0-374-52533-1}})
* ''Open House: Of Family, Friends, Food, Piano Lessons, and the Search for a Room of My Own'' (2004) ({{ISBN|0-374-11407-2}})
* ''The Blind Goddess: A Reader on Race and Justice'' (2011) ({{ISBN|1-595-58699-7}})
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* ''Giving a Damn: Racism, Romance and Gone with the Wind'' (2021) {{ISBN|978-0008404505}}
== References ==
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== External links ==
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*[http://www.law.columbia.edu/fac/Patricia_Williams Patricia J. Williams] at [[Columbia Law School]]
*[http://www.thenation.com/authors/patricia-j-williams Column archive] at ''[[The Nation]]''
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*[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00ghvkl
▲*[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00ghvkl] BBC Radio 4 Reith Lectures: Patricia Williams, The Genealogy of Race, 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]
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