Jamillah Bowman Williams is Professor of Law and Anne Fleming Research Professor at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C. She is Founding Faculty Director of the Georgetown Workers’ Rights Institute (WRI) and has an affiliate appointment in the Georgetown University Department of Sociology. In summer 2025, Williams will also take on a role for the university as Georgetown’s inaugural associate vice president of gender equity and chair of the Gender Equity Committee. She holds a M.A. degree in Higher Education from the University of Michigan, a J.D. from Stanford Law School, and a Ph.D. in Sociology from Stanford.

Professor Williams’ scholarship focuses on law and society with a specialization in employment law and antidiscrimination law. More specifically, Williams uses social psychological theory and empirical analysis to examine the effectiveness of legal interventions and organizational strategies designed to counter systemic inequality. She is particularly interested in investigating the impact of antidiscrimination laws on the individuals they were intended to protect. At the WRI, Williams co-creates research, organizing, and policy initiatives that build workers’ collective power in the workplace and in their communities. Professor Williams teaches courses in Employment Discrimination, Employment Law, Contemporary Bias and Law, and Democratizing Work.

Professor Williams has published or forthcoming articles in the Georgetown Law Journal, California Law Review, Boston College Law Review, Southern California Law Review, University of Chicago Legal Forum, Washington Law Review, Iowa Law Review, William and Mary Law Review, Connecticut Law Review, the Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, the Employee Rights and Employment Policy Journal, and the ABA Journal of Labor and Employment Law.

In 2021, Williams received the Michael J. Zimmer Memorial Award for a rising scholar who values workplace justice and community, and who has made significant contributions to labor and employment law scholarship. She has been a Law & Society/National Science Foundation Fellow, a Visiting Scholar at the American Bar Foundation, a Gender+ Justice Fellow, and a visiting faculty fellow at the Institute for Business in Global Society. Before joining the faculty at Georgetown, Williams worked as an Associate in the Employment Law practice of Paul Hastings, LLP in Chicago, IL.