Patricia J. Williams

Patricia J. Williams is the James L. Dohr Professor of Law Emerita at Columbia Law School and the longtime former "Diary of a Mad Law Professor" columnist for The Nation. She is a winner of the Windham–Campbell Prize, a MacArthur fellow, and the author of six books, including The Alchemy of Race and Rights, Open House, and The Miracle of the Black Leg. She is currently a University Distinguished Professor of Law and Humanities at Northeastern University in Boston, where she lives.