Joan Williams is a Sullivan Professor and the Founding Director of the Equality Action Center at UC Law San Francisco, former Founding Director of the Center for WorkLife Law. Described as having “something approaching rock star status” in her field by
The New York Times Magazine, Williams is a scholar of social inequality and a prominent public intellectual. Williams is the author of 12 books and 116 academic articles in law, sociology, psychology, medical and management journals. She is the 11
th most cited legal scholar both in critical theory and employment law.