Rate My Professor Patricia Williams

Williams publishes extensively on race, gender, and law, legal theory, and legal writing. Key books include The Alchemy of Race and Rights (Harvard University Press, 1991), The Rooster’s Egg (Harvard University Press, 1995), Seeing a Color-Blind Future: The Paradox of Race (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998), Open House: Of Family, Food, Piano Lessons, and the Search for a Room of My Own (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004), Giving a Damn: Racism, Romance and Gone with the Wind (HarperCollins, 2021), and The Miracle of the Black Leg: Notes on Race, Human Bodies, and the Spirit of the Law (The New Press, 2024). She has authored articles in journals such as the Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Theory & Event, and the Yale Review. A longtime columnist for The Nation as “Diary of a Mad Law Professor,” Williams has influenced discussions on social justice. She currently serves as University Distinguished Professor of Law and Humanities at Northeastern University School of Law, with a joint appointment in the Department of Philosophy and Religion and as director of Law, Technology and Ethics Initiatives.