Who is Patricia Williams from The Alchemy of Race and Rights and what is their importance? The_Alchemy_of_Race_and_Rights English & Literature Patricia Williams | The Alchemy of Race and Rights

Patricia Williams, born in 1951, is the James L. Dohr Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. She currently writes a column for The Nation. Williams receives her J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1975 and teaches at Dartmouth College thereafter. Williams is a well-known member of the critical legal studies movement and a famous defender of crucial race theory. This theory defends structuring law in part around a fundamental category of race.