Barbara Aronstein Black Explained

Barbara Aronstein Black
Birth Date: May 6, 1933
Birth Place:Borough Park, New York, U.S.
Occupation:Law professor, academic

Barbara Aronstein Black (born 1933) 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.[1] when she became Dean of Columbia Law School in 1986.[2] [3] Black is the George Wellwood Murray Professor of Legal History at Columbia.

Life and career

Black received her B.A. from Brooklyn College in 1953,[4] her LL.B. from Columbia Law School in 1955, and a Ph.D. from Yale University in 1975.[5] While at Law School, she was editor of the Columbia Law Review.[6]

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.[7] [8] She was also for two years president of the American Society for Legal History.

Black's work has been concentrated in the area of contracts and legal history. She is a recipient of the Elizabeth Blackwell Award[9] and of the Federal Bar Association Prize of Columbia Law School.[10]

Barbara Black is the widow of constitutional scholar and civil rights pioneer Charles Black,[11] with whom she had three children, two sons and a daughter.[12] She left Academia for a time to focus on raising her children, and returned in 1965.[13]

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Notes and References

  1. News: Carol . Kleiman . More women practice law, but barriers remain . https://web.archive.org/web/20110604130256/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/24878188.html?dids=24878188:24878188&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Mar+09,+1987&author=Carol+Kleiman&pub=Chicago+Tribune+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&desc=MORE+WOMEN+PRACTICE+LAW,+BUT+BARRIERS+REMAIN&pqatl=google . dead . June 4, 2011 . March 9, 1987 . Chicago Tribune .
  2. Web site: Biography · Barbara Aronstein Black · ABA Women Trailblazers Project. abawtp.law.stanford.edu. 2020-05-15.
  3. News: Winning due credit for life experience . Milwaukee Journal . January 6, 1986 .
  4. News: Challenge rules, roles, new graduates told . Michael . Moss . 6 June 1988 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110604130350/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/newsday/access/104001740.html?dids=104001740:104001740&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Jun+06,+1988&author=By+Michael+Moss&pub=Newsday+(Combined+editions)&desc=Challenge+Rules,+Roles,+New+Graduates+Told&pqatl=google . dead . June 4, 2011 . Newsday .
  5. Web site: Faculty Profiles - Barbara Aronstein Black . Columbia Law School . 2010-02-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100622221841/http://www1.law.columbia.edu/law_school/communications/reports/winter2003/b_black . 2010-06-22 . dead .
  6. Web site: Barbara A. Black. www.law.columbia.edu. en. 2020-05-15.
  7. Web site: Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter B. American Academy of Arts and Sciences. July 26, 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110725002054/http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterB.pdf. 25 July 2011 . live.
  8. Web site: APS Member History . 2022-04-07 . search.amphilsoc.org.
  9. Web site: The Blackwell Award . Hobart and William Smith College .
  10. Web site: HWS: Barbara Aronstein Black . Hobart and William Smith College.
  11. News: Charles L. Black Jr., 85, constitutional law expert who wrote on impeachment, dies . May 8, 2001 . New York Times . Robert . McFadde .
  12. Some memories of Charles L. Black, Jr. . Yale Law Journal . June 1, 2002.
  13. News: 1986-01-02. Woman in the News: Barbara Aronstein Black; Incoming Law School Dean with 2 Careers. en-US. The New York Times. 2020-05-15. 0362-4331.

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