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My name is Chris Williams. I’ll be serving as Above the Law’s new Social Media Manager and Assistant Editor. Baked macaroni and cheese is my love language.

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Chris Williams

“What’s good?” – Socrates, right?

Hello to you, too. My name is Chris Williams. I’ll be serving as Above the Law’s new Social Media Manager and Assistant Editor. What follows are a few things about me that are likely to color my writing. I claim New Jersey, unapologetically. I spend most of my time in Camden. I recently attended a festival called Mini Beard and tried to read Aristotle’s Rhetoric in my tent. I was too distracted by my surroundings to continue on, but the attempt was made.

I graduated from Rutgers – Newark with a degree in Philosophy and a degree in African and African American studies. That experience taught me that theory must be grounded in practice. Oddly enough, I went to law school with no intention of ever being a practicing lawyer. I decided that I wanted to teach Jurisprudence, which is philosophy of law, and I figured learning what lawyers learn made the most sense to do. That did have the effect of me seeing my classes less as a place for me to outline and more of a place to teach others. For context, I was the student that would draw attention to discrepancies in 2nd Amendment jurisprudence whenever possible. I intend on continuing that practice at Above the Law. This is an introduction as much as it is a paper trail, so I invite you to call my attention to this intro if at any point I don’t make the most of a teachable moment. Accessibility is something big to me. Is Above the Law addressing the needs of recent grads? Black folks? People who have problems seeing? If not, and if it is possible to change that, how can we make things right? I like memes, I post them, and I need them to be accessible so that as many people as possible can see how brilliant and modest my original content is.

When I’m not making memes or penning articles, I am a Youth Instructor at The Center for Environmental Transformation where I teach kids how to grow food and resolve conflicts. I seem to have a never-ending pile of laundry. I ride my bike enough to consider myself a cyclist, but actual cyclists have a problem discerning between myself and the average couch. I firmly believe Alan Lightman wrote one of the best books ever written and baked macaroni and cheese is my love language.

Questions, comments, concerns? Send me those and more at cwilliams@abovethelaw.com.

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Chris Williams became a social media manager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021. Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord™ in the Facebook group Law School Memes for Edgy T14s. Before that, he wrote columns for an online magazine named The Muse Collaborative under the pen name Knehmo. He endured the great state of Missouri long enough to graduate from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. He is a former boatbuilder who cannot swim, a published author on critical race theory, philosophy, and humor, and has a love for cycling that occasionally annoys his peers. You can reach him by email at cwilliams@abovethelaw.com.

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