The Alchemy of Race and Rights
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Patricia Williams is a professor of law at Columbia University who teaches law at Dartmouth. Born in 1951, she earns her law degree in 1975 from Harvard Law School. Williams is a prominent proponent of critical legal theory and critical race theory. She therefore emphasizes the indeterminacy and deeply political nature of law and believes that race should be treated as a separate category within the law. On these grounds and because of her experience as a black woman, Williams is a strong defender of racial preferences in the law and affirmative action generally.