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American legal scholar
Barbara Aronstein Black
Born (1933-05-06 ) May 6, 1933 (age 90) Education Occupation(s) Law professor, academic
Barbara Aronstein Black (born 1933)
[1] is an American
legal scholar . Born and raised in
Brooklyn . She was the first woman to serve as dean of an
Ivy League
law school .
[2] when she became Dean of
Columbia Law School in 1986.
[3]
[4] Black is the George Wellwood Murray Professor of Legal History at Columbia.
[5]
Life and career
Black received her B.A. from
Brooklyn College in 1953,
[6] her LL.B. from
Columbia Law School in 1955, and a Ph.D. from
Yale University in 1975.
[7] While at Law School, she was editor of the
Columbia Law Review .
[8]
Black was elected a Fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1989 and a member of the
American Philosophical Society in 1991.
[1]
[9] She was also for two years president of the
American Society for Legal History .
[7]
Black's work has been concentrated in the area of
contracts and
legal history . She is a recipient of the
Elizabeth Blackwell Award
[10] and of the Federal Bar Association Prize of Columbia Law School.
[11]
Barbara Black is the
widow of constitutional scholar and civil rights pioneer
Charles Black ,
[5] with whom she had three children, two sons and a daughter.
[12]
[3] She left Academia for a time to focus on raising her children, and returned in 1965.
[13]
References
^
a
b
"Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter B" (PDF) . American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Archived (PDF) from the original on 25 July 2011. Retrieved July 26, 2011 .
^ Kleiman, Carol (March 9, 1987).
"More women practice law, but barriers remain" . Chicago Tribune.
^
a
b
"Biography · Barbara Aronstein Black · ABA Women Trailblazers Project" . abawtp.law.stanford.edu . Retrieved 2020-05-15 .
^
"Winning due credit for life experience" . Milwaukee Journal. January 6, 1986.
^
a
b McFadde, Robert (May 8, 2001).
"Charles L. Black Jr., 85, constitutional law expert who wrote on impeachment, dies" . New York Times .
^ Moss, Michael (6 June 1988).
"Challenge rules, roles, new graduates told" . Newsday.
^
a
b
"Faculty Profiles - Barbara Aronstein Black" . Columbia Law School. Archived from
the original on 2010-06-22. Retrieved 2010-02-21 .
^
"Barbara A. Black" . www.law.columbia.edu . Retrieved 2020-05-15 .
^
"APS Member History" . search.amphilsoc.org . Retrieved 2022-04-07 .
^
"The Blackwell Award" . Hobart and William Smith College.
^
"HWS: Barbara Aronstein Black" . Hobart and William Smith College.
^
"Some memories of Charles L. Black, Jr" . Yale Law Journal . June 1, 2002.
^
"Woman in the News: Barbara Aronstein Black; Incoming Law School Dean with 2 Careers" . The New York Times . 1986-01-02.
ISSN
0362-4331 . Retrieved 2020-05-15 .
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