The Miracle of the Black LegNotes on Race, Human Bodies, and the Spirit of the Law\nAuthor(s): Patricia J. Williams\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: The New Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: The New Press\nISBN-13: 9781620978160, 978-1620978160\nSynopsis\nBrilliant essays from the renowned Nation columnistaka the Mad Law Professortackling questions of identity, bioethics, race, surveillance, and more\n\nBeginning with a jaw-dropping rumination on a centuries-old painting featuring a white man with a Black mans leg surgically attached (with the expired Black leg-donor in the foreground), contracts law scholar and celebrated journalist Patricia J. Williams uses the lens of the law to take on core questions of identity, ethics, and race.\n\nWith her trademark elegant prose and critical legal studies wisdom, Williams brings to bear a keen analytic eye and a lawyers training to chapters exploring the ways we have legislated the ownership of everything from body parts to gene sequencesand the p.