Guests: Patricia J. Williams RSS

2012:

  1. A discussion about Prison reform
    A discussion about Prison reform

    with Eugene Jarecki, Michelle Alexander and Patricia J. Williams on Nov 28, 2012

    Duration
    25 min
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2008:

  1. A discussion about Race & Gender
    Duration
    33 min
    Comments
    9 comments
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2007:

  1. A Week in Review
    Duration
    31 min
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  2. "Sunday on Friday": The week's notable events and people
    Duration
    39 min
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    1 comment
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  3. A live discussion of President Bush's State of the Union Address
    Duration
    53 min
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1995:

  1. A discussion of the O.J. Simpson verdict
    A discussion of the O.J. Simpson verdict

    with Gloria Steinem and Patricia J. Williams on Oct 9, 1995

    Duration
    60 min
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  2. A discussion about race and affirmative action
    Duration
    60 min
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Patricia J. Williams is a columnist for The Nation magazine. She is a professor of law at Columbia University and holds a BA from Wellesley College and a JD from Harvard Law School.

She was a fellow in the School of Criticism and Theory at Dartmouth College and has been an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin School Law School and its department of women’s studies. Williams also worked as a consumer advocate in the office of the City Attorney in Los Angeles.

A member of the State Bar of California and the Federal Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. Williams has served on the advisory council for the Medgar Evers Center for Law and Social Justice of the City University of New York and on the board of governors for the Society of American Law Teachers, among others.

Her publications include Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave, On Being the Object of Property, The Electronic Transformation of Law and And We Are Not Married: A Journal of Musings on Legal Language and the Ideology of Style. In 1993, Harvard University Press published Williams’s The Alchemy of Race & Rights to widespread critical acclaim. She is also author of The Rooster’s Egg (Harvard, 1995), Seeing a Color-Blind Future: The Paradox of Race (Reith Lectures, 1997) (Noonday Press, 1998) and, most recently, Open House: On Family Food, Friends, Piano Lessons and The Search for a Room of My Own (Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2004.)

Source: http://www.thenation.com/directory/bios/patricia_j_williams