Joan C. Williams Receives Outstanding Scholar Award From The Fellows of the American Bar Foundation
January 20, 2012, ABF news
Joan C. Williams, Distinguished Professor, University of California Hastings College of Law, will receive the Outstanding Scholar Award from The Fellows of the American Bar Foundation. The award will be presented at The Fellows of the American Bar Foundation 56th Annual Awards Reception and Banquet on Saturday, February 4, in the National World War II Museum, Louisiana Memorial Pavilion, 945 Magazine Street, New Orleans, LA. The banquet is one of several events being hosted by The Fellows of the American Bar Foundation during the Midyear Meeting of the American Bar Association.
The Outstanding Scholar Award is given annually by The Fellows of the American Bar Foundation to a member of the academy who has engaged in outstanding scholarship in the law or in government. Williams holds the UC Hastings Foundation Chair, and is the Founding Director of the Center for Worklife Law at the University of California, Hastings College of Law. She has been researching and writing about work-family issues for more than two decades. She is widely recognized among scholars on work/life law and 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). In 2006, Williams received the American Bar Association’s Margaret Brent Award for Women Lawyers of Achievement. In 2008, she gave the prestigious Massey Lectures in American Civilization at Harvard University. She received her J.D. from Harvard Law School, and blogs at the Huffington Post.
“We are especially pleased this year to honor Joan Williams as Outstanding Scholar,” said Robert L. Nelson, Director of the American Bar Foundation. He added, “her research has had significant impact on the fields of employment law and work-family policy. Professor Williams’ research is central to helping us understand the ways in which law affects American families’ daily lives, and we congratulate her on this recognition by The Fellows of the American Bar Foundation.”
The Fellows of the American Bar Foundation is an honorary organization of lawyers, judges, and legal scholars whose public and private careers have demonstrated outstanding dedication to the welfare of their communities and to the highest principles of the legal profession.
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Event Details: The Fellows of the American Bar Foundation
Annual Awards Reception and Banquet (ticketed event)
Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012
6:00pm-10:00pm
The National World War II Museum
Louisiana Memorial Pavilion
945 Magazine Street
New Orleans, LA
Contact: fellows@abfn.org
1-800-292-5065
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