University of California, Hastings College of Law

Joan C. Williams is Distinguished Professor of Law, at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, as well as founding Director of the Center for WorkLife Law (www.worklifelaw.org) and Co-Director of the Project for Attorney Retention (PAR) (www.pardc.org) . A prize-winning author and expert on work/family issues, she is author of Unbending Gender: Why Family and Work Conflict and What to Do About It (Oxford University Press, 2000), which won the 2000 Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award. She has authored or co-authored four books and over fifty law review articles. Her article “Beyond the Maternal Wall: Relief for Family Caregivers Who Are Discriminated Against on the Job,” 26 Harvard Women’s Law Review 77 (2003), (co-authored with Nancy Segal), was prominently cited in Back v. Hastings on Hudson Union Free School District, 2004 U.S. App. Lexis 6684 (2d Cir. April 7, 2004). She also has played a central role in organizing social scientists to document maternal wall bias, notably in a special issue of the Journal of Social Issues (2004), (co-edited with Monica Biernat and Faye Crosby), which was awarded the Distinguished Publication Award by the Association for Women in Psychology. Her current work focuses on social psychology and on how work/family conflict affects families across the social spectrum. In 2006, she received the American Bar Association’s Margaret Brent Award for Women Lawyers of Achievement. In 2007, she is scheduled to give the Massey Lectures on American Civilization at Harvard University.

Professor Williams will lecture here at UCI on
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
OPEN to all faculty, students, and staff
3:00 PM
135 Humanites Instructional Building

For more information, contact Dina Jankowski at djankows@uci.edu

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