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ADVISORY Jessica Bulman-Pozen Associate Professor of Law Columbia University School of Law Ariela R. Dubler George Welwood Murray Professor of Legal History Columbia University School of Law Elizabeth F. Emens Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law Columbia University School of Law Katherine M. Franke .Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law Director, Center for Gender and Sexuality Law Columbia University School of Law BOARD The Honorable Ruth Bader Ginsburg United States Supreme Court Jamal Greene Professor of Law Columbia University School of Law Suzanne B. Goldberg Herbert and Doris Wechsler Clinical Professor of Law Director, Center for Gender and Sexuality Law Columbia University School of Law Scott E. Kessler Bureau Chief Domestic Violence Bureau Queens County District Attorney's Office Lecturer in Law, Columbia University School of Law SENIOR EDITORIAL BOARD Editor-in-Chief Kathryn S. Benedict Executive Editor Gretchen Stertz Executive Managing Editor Anne Silver Business Editor Allison Yurcik Submissions Editors Lynnette Cortes * Rosie Wang EDITORS Production Editors Erik Chamberlin * Shannon Cleary Evgueni Gokhmark * Sarah Krieger Article Editors Julie Cantor * Cat Kim * Shefali Singh * Carrie Tirrell Notes Editors Lindsay Gardner * Madeline Gomez Copyright and Online Editor Olga Peshko Symposium Editor Jacqueline Rios Special Projects Editor Shannon Cleary STAFF MEMBERS Esi Agbemenu * Andrew Chesley * Caroline Dreyspool Amy Elmgren * Helen Ethridge * Kate Gadsden * Logan Gowdey Rebecca Graham * Leyla Hadi * Ashleigh Hunt * Emma Kaplan Eleni Kyriakides * Andrea Londono Lopez * Jacqueline Ma Sarah Mac Dougall * John Mark * Avni Mehta * Ethan Merel Jessica Montes * Xinyi Pan * Jason Rosenbaum * Kathryn Roulett Erica Senat * Rachel Shapiro * Abigail Shaw * Bradley Silverman Nicole Taykhman * Nicole Tortoriello * Meredith Ward TABLE OF A Tribute to the Work of Patricia Williams Katherine Franke Returns Gina Dent Patricia Williams and The Nation Paula J. Giddings She's Having an Episode: Patricia Williams and the Writing of Damaged Life Lauren Berlant 1 6 13 19 CONTENTS The Embodied Self Robert Pollack Black Alice Eduardo Cadava Reflection Patricia J. Williams 36 43 52