Wendy Webster Williams
Professor Emerita
B.A., J.D., University of California
Professor Williams is best known for her work in the area of gender and law, especially concerning issues of work and family, and is the co-author...
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Professor Williams is best known for her work in the area of gender and law, especially concerning issues of work and family, and is the co-author of a 1996 casebook on gender and law. She helped draft and testified before Congressional committees on the Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978 and the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993. Before joining the Law Center faculty in 1976, she was a law clerk for Justice Raymond Peters of the California Supreme Court, a Reginald Heber Smith Fellow, and a founder of Equal Rights Advocates, a public interest law firm in San Francisco. Professor Williams served on the National Research Council Panel on Employer Policies and Working Families and the Blue Ribbon Advisory Committee to the Yale Bush Center Project on Infant Care Leaves. She is a past-president of the Society of American Law Teachers and is a member of the American Law Institute. Since 1983, she has been a member of the board of the Georgetown Women's Law and Public Policy Fellowship Program. She served as Associate Dean of the Law Center from 1989-93.
Useful Links
Gender and Legal History in America Papers
Recent Scholarship
Forthcoming Works and Works in Progress
- Wendy Webster Williams & Richard H. Chused, Women's Legal History (Oxford: Oxford University Press forthcoming).
Contributions to Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals
- Wendy Webster Williams, Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Equal Protection Clause: 1970-80, 25 Colum. J. Gender & L. 41-49 (2013). [L] [W]
- Wendy Webster Williams, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Rutgers Years: 1963-1972, 31 Women's Rts. L. Rep. 229-257 (2010). [HEIN] [L] [W]
- Wendy Webster Williams & Deborah Jones Merritt, Transcript of Interview of U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, April 10, 2009, 70 Ohio St. L.J. 805-824 (2009). [HEIN] [L] [W]
Book Chapters and Collected Works
- Wendy Webster Williams, Kriza Ravnopravnosti: Neka Razmišljanja o Kulturi, Sudovima i Feminizmu [The Equality Crisis: Some Reflections on Culture, Courts, and Feminism], in Žene i Pravo: Feminističke Pravne Teorije 97-108 (Uredila Ivana Radačić ed., Zagreb, Croat.: Centar za Ženske Studije 2009).
All Scholarship 2000 - Present
Forthcoming Works and Works in Progress
- Wendy Webster Williams & Richard H. Chused, Women's Legal History (Oxford: Oxford University Press forthcoming).
Books
- Supreme Court Decisions and Women's Rights: Milestones to Equality (Claire Cushman ed.; Wendy Webster Williams, Jeffrey Rosen & Susan Deller Ross editorial advisors, Wash., D.C.: CQ Press 2001). [BOOK]
Contributions to Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals
- Wendy Webster Williams, Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Equal Protection Clause: 1970-80, 25 Colum. J. Gender & L. 41-49 (2013). [L] [W]
- Wendy Webster Williams, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Rutgers Years: 1963-1972, 31 Women's Rts. L. Rep. 229-257 (2010). [HEIN] [L] [W]
- Wendy Webster Williams & Deborah Jones Merritt, Transcript of Interview of U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, April 10, 2009, 70 Ohio St. L.J. 805-824 (2009). [HEIN] [L] [W]
- Wendy Webster Williams, Model Enforcement of Wage and Hour Laws for Undocumented Workers: One Step Closer to Equal Protection Under the Law, 37 Colum. Hum. Rts. L. Rev. 755-786 (2006). [HEIN] [L] [W]
- Wendy Webster Williams, The Gifts of Mary Dunlap (1949-2003), 19 Berkeley Women's L.J. 12-16 (2004). [HEIN] [L] [W] [Gtown Law]
- Wendy Webster Williams, Emma Coleman Jordan, Elizabeth Hayes Patterson, Pamela Bridewater & Kylar Brondus, Panel One: Movements in the Legal Academy, 5 Geo. J. Gender & L. 817-838 (2004). [HEIN] [L]
Book Chapters and Collected Works
- Wendy Webster Williams, Kriza Ravnopravnosti: Neka Razmišljanja o Kulturi, Sudovima i Feminizmu [The Equality Crisis: Some Reflections on Culture, Courts, and Feminism], in Žene i Pravo: Feminističke Pravne Teorije 97-108 (Uredila Ivana Radačić ed., Zagreb, Croat.: Centar za Ženske Studije 2009).
- Wendy Webster Williams, The Equality Crisis: Some Reflections on Culture, Courts and Feminism, in Sports and Inequality 348-355 (Michael J. Cozzillio & Robert L. Hayman, Jr. eds., Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press 2004). [BOOK]
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202-662-9114
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