Williams to speak on ethics, law and race at WFU April 5

Patricia J. Williams, professor of law at Columbia University, will speak about ethics, law and race April 5 at Wake Forest University.

She will speak at 5:30 p.m. in Benson University Center’s Pugh Auditorium as part of the university’s Year of Ethics and Honor. The event is free and open to the public.

Before she became a professor, Williams practiced law as a consumer advocate and deputy city attorney for the City of Los Angeles. She was also a staff attorney for the Western Center on Law and Poverty.

Her book, “The Alchemy of Race and Rights,” was named one of the best 25 books of 1991 by the Village Voice Literary Supplement and voted “one of the feminist classics of the past 25 years” in Ms. Magazine’s 20th anniversary issue.

Williams is a graduate of Wellesley College and Harvard Law School. She now serves on the boards of the Center for Constitutional Rights, the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund and the Society of American Law Teachers.

For more information, call 336-758-5311.