Joan C. Williams, Distinguished Professor of Law, UC Hastings Foundation Chair and Director of the Center for WorkLife Law

Professor Joan C. Williams is Distinguished Professor of Law, UC Hastings Foundation Chair, Founding Director of the Center for WorkLife Law at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. According to The New York Times, "she has something approaching rock-star status" among work/life advocates. She won the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award for Unbending Gender: Why Family and Work Conflict and What to Do About It (Oxford University Press, 2000). She has authored or co-authored seventy academic articles and chapters and five books, most recently Reshaping The Work-Family Debate: Men and Class Matter (Harvard Univ. Press, 2010). Her project on work-life balance and gender bias in academia is at www.genderbiasbingo.com. In 2006, Williams received the American Bar Association’s Margaret Brent Award for Women Lawyers of Achievement. In 2008, she gave the Massey Lectures in American Civilization at Harvard University. Follow her on her Huffington Post blog; the WorkLife Law website is www.worklifelaw.org.

Courses Taught: Property, Feminist Legal Theory and Seminar on Current Issues on WorkLife Law

My favorite part about teaching you is... involving the students in making creative legal arguments that push the limits of the law. 

What I hope you get from a legal education at Hastings is... an appreciation for the diversity of American society, and the place creativity has in making you an outstanding lawyer.