Law

The law is a site of activism and resistance in which many of the key social problems facing human global society are advocated. Though the law is heterogeneous and refers to a broad range of rules and regulations that are created and implemented by diverse institutions in widely varying ways, the law can be understood as a system of oppression. Patricia Williams is currently a James L. Dohr Professor of Law at Columbia University and one of the founding theorists of intersectionality. Her Alchemy of Race and Rights: Diary of a Law Professor integrates critical literary theory, autobiography, and cultural studies to weave an argument about the intersectionality of race, gender, and class. In addition to coining the term "intersectionality", Kimberlé Crenshaw is a founder of the closely related Critical Race Theory movement and an internationally renowned expert on race, gender, and the law.