Barbara Aronstein Black

Barbara Aronstein Black (born 1933[1]) is an American legal scholar. She was the first woman to head an Ivy League law school.[2] when she became Dean of Columbia Law School in 1986.[3] Black is George Wellwood Murray Professor of Legal History at Columbia.[4]

Black received her B.A. from Brooklyn College in 1953,[5] her LL.B. from Columbia Law School in 1955, and a Ph.D. from Yale University in 1975.[6] Black was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1989.[1] She was also for two years president of the American Society for Legal History.[6] Black's work has been concentrated in the area of contracts and legal history. She is a recipient of the Elizabeth Blackwell Award[7] and of the Federal Bar Association Prize of Columbia Law School.[8]

Barbara Black is the widow of constitutional scholar and civil rights pioneer Charles Black,[4] with whom she had three children.[9]

References

  1. ^ a b "Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter B". American Academy of Arts and Sciences. http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterB.pdf. Retrieved July 26, 2011. 
  2. ^ Kleiman, Carol (March 9, 1987). "More women practice law, but barriers remain". Chicago Tribune. http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/24878188.html?dids=24878188:24878188&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Mar+09%2C+1987&author=Carol+Kleiman&pub=Chicago+Tribune+%28pre-1997+Fulltext%29&desc=MORE+WOMEN+PRACTICE+LAW%2C+BUT+BARRIERS+REMAIN&pqatl=google. 
  3. ^ "Winning due credit for life experience". Milwaukee Journal. January 6, 1986. http://news.google.co.uk/newspapers?id=NGkaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=XCoEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5320,4607595&dq=barbara-aronstein-black+columbia&hl=en. 
  4. ^ a b McFadde, Robert (May 8, 2001). "Charles L. Black Jr., 85, constitutional law expert who wrote on impeachment, dies". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/08/nyregion/charles-l-black-jr-85-constitutional-law-expert-who-wrote-on-impeachment-dies.html. 
  5. ^ Moss, Michael (6 June 1988). "Challenge rules, roles, new graduates told". Newsday. http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/newsday/access/104001740.html?dids=104001740:104001740&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Jun+06%2C+1988&author=By+Michael+Moss&pub=Newsday+%28Combined+editions%29&desc=Challenge+Rules%2C+Roles%2C+New+Graduates+Told&pqatl=google. 
  6. ^ a b "Faculty Profiles - Barbara Aronstein Black". Columbia Law School. http://www.law.columbia.edu/law_school/communications/reports/winter2003/b_black. 
  7. ^ "The Blackwell Award". Hobart and William Smith College. http://www.hws.edu/about/blackwell.aspx. 
  8. ^ "HWS: Barbara Aronstein Black". Hobart and William Smith College. http://www.hws.edu/about/blackwell/black.aspx. 
  9. ^ "Some memories of Charles L. Black, Jr.". Yale Law Journal. June 1, 2002. http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-1862991/Some-memories-of-Charles-L.html. 

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