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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

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    25 min
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2008:

  1. A discussion about Race & Gender
    A discussion about Race & Gender

    with Ruth Marcus, Patricia J. Williams, Fletcher N. Smith and more on Jan 14, 2008

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    33 min
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2007:

  1. A Week in Review
    A Week in Review

    with Adam Gopnik, Peter Beinart, Patricia J. Williams and more on Apr 19, 2007

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    31 min
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  2. "Sunday on Friday": The week's notable events and people
    "Sunday on Friday": The week's notable events and people

    with David Remnick, Martha Raddatz, Patricia J. Williams and more on Apr 13, 2007

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    39 min
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  3. A live discussion of President Bush's State of the Union Address
    A live discussion of President Bush's State of the Union...

    with Jon Meacham, Martha Raddatz, Mark Halperin and more on Jan 23, 2007

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    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

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    60 min
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  2. A discussion about race and affirmative action
    A discussion about race and affirmative action

    with Abigail Thernstrom, Joe Klein, Patricia J. Williams and more on Mar 20, 1995

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    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