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Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw

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Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw (born May 5, 1959) is an American civil rights advocate and a leading scholar of critical race theory. She is a professor at the UCLA School of Law and Columbia Law School, where she specializes in race and gender issues. Crenshaw is known for introducing and developing intersectional theory, the study of how overlapping or intersecting social identities, particularly minority identities, relate to systems and structures of oppression, domination, or discrimination. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw has received more than 884,017 page views. Her biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw is the 71st most popular lawyer (down from 63rd in 2019), the 10,043rd most popular biography from United States (up from 10,930th in 2019) and the 20th most popular American Lawyer.

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  • 22

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  • 2.45

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  • 3.58

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Among lawyers, Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw ranks 71 out of 68Before her are Michael Cohen, Merrick Garland, Christopher A. Wray, A. V. Dicey, Doug Emhoff, and Felix Frankfurter. After her are Benjamin N. Cardozo, Alberto Nisman, Robert Lighthizer, Richard Wagner, Dario Franceschini, and Judy Sheindlin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1959, Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw ranks 403Before her are Paul Kaba Thieba, John Lauridsen, Dave Schultz, Omar Hakim, Nick Griffin, and Anne Smith. After her are Dennis Chambers, Toshio Masuda, Eben Moglen, Naoji Ito, Joe Elliott, and Ryan Stiles.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw ranks 10,043 out of 18,182Before her are Richard Rush (1780), Rick Yancey (1962), Bobby Lashley (1976), Rob Estes (1963), Trini Alvarado (1967), and Anne Smith (1959). After her are Leah Remini (1970), Maxi Mounds (1964), Joseph Mascolo (1929), Sterling Price (1809), Harry Chapin (1942), and Fred Ebb (1928).

Among LAWYERS In United States

Among lawyers born in United States, Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw ranks 20Before her are Clarence Darrow (1857), Ken Starr (1946), Michael Cohen (1966), Merrick Garland (1952), Christopher A. Wray (1966), and Doug Emhoff (1964). After her are Benjamin N. Cardozo (1870), Robert Lighthizer (1947), Judy Sheindlin (1942), Robert Bork (1927), William O. Douglas (1898), and Robert Treat Paine (1731).

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