Barbara Fried Explained

Barbara Fried
Education:
Discipline:Law
Workplaces:Stanford Law School
Main Interests:Legal ethics
Notable Works:"What Does Matter? The Case for Killing the Trolley Problem (Or Letting It Die)" (2012)
Partner:Joseph Bankman
Children:
Relatives:Linda P. Fried (sister)

Barbara Helen Fried (born 1951)[1] is an American lawyer and professor emeritus at Stanford Law School.[2] She is the mother of FTX and Alameda Research co-Founder Sam Bankman-Fried, convicted on seven counts of criminal fraud[3] as CEO of the now-defunct and bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange, alongside other company insiders.[4] [5]

Education

She graduated from Harvard College with a B.A. degree magna cum laude in English and American Literature in 1977 and an M.A. degree in literature in 1980, as well as a J.D. degree magna cum laude in 1983 from Harvard Law School.[6] [7] Fried served from 1983 to 1984 as a judicial law clerk under J. Edward Lumbard, Senior Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Career

Fried joined the Stanford Law School Faculty as a tenure-track professor in 1987 after working as an associate attorney at the law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison from 1984 to 1987.[8] She has investigated such topics as contractualism, libertarianism, and utilitarianism,[9] and is considered an expert on legal ethics. Fried has written about effective altruism and moral philosopher Peter Singer.[10] [11] She has offered critiques on philosopher Robert Nozick's theory of property[12] and psychologist John Money's work on "fetally androgenized girls."[13] Her academic work centers on a branch of ethics known as consequentialism, or the idea that the results of our actions are more important than abstract notions of right and wrong.

Fried is an affiliate of the Stanford Center on Poverty & Inequality.[14]

Fried retired from teaching in late 2022, which she said was a "long-planned" decision.[15]

Activism

Fried is a co-founder of the political fundraising organization Mind the Gap, which advocates support for Democratic Party candidates and funds get-out-the-vote groups.[16] The organization, described by Vox in January 2020 as "Silicon Valley's secretive donor group",[17] [18] advises high-profile tech donors, including former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, on where to direct campaign contributions.

In November 2022, Fried resigned from her chairwoman position with Mind the Gap.[19] [20]

Personal life

Fried's partner is Stanford Law School professor Joseph Bankman, whom she met in 1988 while teaching at Stanford. The couple did not marry because they felt it was unfair to gay couples who could not legally marry.

She is the mother of Sam Bankman-Fried,[21] the convicted founder and former CEO of now-bankrupt crypto exchange FTX,[22] and his younger brother, Gabe.[23] [24] Fried's sister Linda P. Fried is the Dean of Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health.

Fried and Joseph Bankman were sued by the team overseeing the FTX bankruptcy in September 2023. The lawsuit alleges they unjustly enriched themselves, receiving a $10million cash gift and a $16.4million beachfront property in The Bahamas.[25]

Works

Academic work

Short stories

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Fried, Barbara 1951- . December 26, 2022 . www.worldcat.org . en-US . December 30, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221230211136/https://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n79011353/ . live .
  2. Web site: Barbara H. Fried. stanford.edu. May 4, 2017. June 11, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170611041256/https://ethicsinsociety.stanford.edu/about/people/barbara-h-fried. live.
  3. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/samuel-bankman-fried-sentenced-25-years-his-orchestration-multiple-fraudulent-schemes#:~:text=Samuel%20Bankman%2DFried%2C%20also%20known,orchestration%20of%20multiple%20fraudulent%20schemes.
  4. Web site: Baer . Justin . 2023-11-12 . Bankman-Fried’s Parents Stand by Their Sam—and Face Their Own Legal Perils . 2023-11-13 . WSJ . en-US.
  5. Web site: 2023-11-03 . Sam Bankman-Fried’s Stanford law parents ‘defeated’ by his guilty verdict . 2023-11-13 . East Bay Times . en-US.
  6. Web site: Barbara Fried. Stanford Law School. en. November 28, 2019. January 12, 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200112104412/https://law.stanford.edu/directory/barbara-fried/. live.
  7. Fall 1987 . New Faces: Barbara H. Fried (Assistant Professor) . Stanford Lawyer . 22 . 1 . 41–43 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221117065746/https://www-cdn.law.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Stanford_Lawyer_issue-38_1987-FALL-VOL22-NO1_front.pdf . November 17, 2022 . September 26, 2023.
  8. News: Chafkin . Max . Miller . Hannah . September 14, 2023 . How Sam Bankman-Fried's Elite Parents Enabled His Crypto Empire . en . . September 19, 2023 . September 19, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230919154756/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-09-14/sam-bankman-fried-s-parents-did-they-enable-ftx-s-rise . live .
  9. Web site: Driscoll. Sharon. November 11, 2013. On Trolley Cars, Blame, and Other Diversions. Stanford Law School. en. November 14, 2022. November 14, 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20221114152418/https://law.stanford.edu/stanford-lawyer/articles/barbara-h-fried/. live.
  10. Web site: Fried. Barbara H.. August 20, 2014. Emotional Empathy Is Not the Culprit. Boston Review. en. November 14, 2022. November 14, 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20221114152418/https://www.bostonreview.net/forum_response/barbara-h-fried-response-against-empathy-fried/. live.
  11. Web site: Fried. Barbara H.. Summer 2015. Not-So-Ordinary Altruism: A defense of effective altruism raises the question of just how effective that movement can be.. Stanford Social Innovation Review. en. November 14, 2022. November 14, 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20221114152408/https://ssir.org/books/reviews/entry/not_so_ordinary_altruism. live.
  12. Book: Alexander, Gregory S. . Property and Human Flourishing . 2018 . . 978-0-19-086074-5 . 21 . en . Gregory S. Alexander . December 27, 2022 . May 10, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230510123204/https://books.google.com/books?id=9vdJDwAAQBAJ . live .
  13. Book: Weidman, Nadine . Killer Instinct: The Popular Science of Human Nature in Twentieth-Century America . October 19, 2021 . . 978-0-674-98347-2 . 243 . en . December 27, 2022 . April 18, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230418123221/https://books.google.com/books?id=8vs8EAAAQBAJ . live .
  14. Web site: Barbara Fried . September 14, 2023 . June 2, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230602144853/https://inequality.stanford.edu/about/people/barbara-fried . live .
  15. Web site: Riley . Oriana . December 7, 2022 . Sam Bankman-Fried's parents will not teach at Stanford Law next year . September 19, 2023 . . en-US . August 3, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230803020056/https://stanforddaily.com/2022/12/07/sam-bankman-frieds-parents-will-not-be-teaching-at-stanford-law-school-next-year/ . live .
  16. Web site: Stanford-connected fundraising group wants to raise $140 million for Democrats in 2020. January 16, 2020. The Stanford Daily. en. November 14, 2022. September 27, 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230927024536/https://stanforddaily.com/2020/01/16/stanford-connected-fundraising-group-wants-to-raise-140-million-for-democrats-in-2020/. live.
  17. Web site: Schleifer. Theodore. January 7, 2020. How Silicon Valley's secretive donor group plans to beat Trump. November 11, 2022. Vox. en. November 11, 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20221111092655/https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/1/7/21055340/mind-the-gap-silicon-valley-donors-democrats-2020-plan-140-million. live.
  18. Web site: A 501tax-exempt . NW . charitable organization 1300 L. St . Washington . Suite 200 . Dc 20005857-0044 . Mind the Gap PAC Donors . December 1, 2022 . OpenSecrets . en . December 1, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221201112435/https://www.opensecrets.org/political-action-committees-pacs/mind-the-gap/C00683649/donors/2018 . live .
  19. News: Yaffe-Bellany . David . Kelley . Lora . Vogel . Kenneth P. . December 23, 2022 . The Parents in the Middle of FTX's Collapse . The New York Times . September 21, 2023 . September 21, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230921023531/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/12/technology/sbf-parents-ftx-collapse.html . live .
  20. Web site: Barbara Fried . December 1, 2022 . www.influencewatch.org . en-US . December 1, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221201112431/https://www.influencewatch.org/person/barbara-fried/ . live .
  21. News: Exclusive: Bankman-Fried's FTX, parents bought Bahamas property worth $121 million . Reuters . November 22, 2022 . November 22, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221122061324/https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-bankman-frieds-ftx-parents-bought-bahamas-property-worth-121-mln-2022-11-22/ . live .
  22. News: Mandl . Carolina . December 1, 2022 . Sam Bankman-Fried says he 'didn't ever try to commit fraud' . en . Reuters . December 1, 2022 . November 30, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221130231134/https://www.reuters.com/technology/sam-bankman-fried-says-he-didnt-ever-try-commit-fraud-2022-11-30/ . live .
  23. News: Diamond . Dan . Before FTX collapse, founder poured millions into pandemic prevention . Washington Post . November 28, 2022 . November 16, 2022 . Sam Bankman-Fried, then a 28-year-old cryptocurrency entrepreneur, and his brother Gabe, a 25-year-old congressional staffer, said the pandemic provided them with something else... . November 27, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221127200920/https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/11/16/sam-bankman-fried-ftx-pandemic-prevention/ . live .
  24. News: Goldstein . Matthew . Yaffe-Bellany . David . Kelley . Lora . March 24, 2023 . The Younger Brother Caught in the Middle of the FTX Investigation . en-US . . September 19, 2023 . 0362-4331 . September 19, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230919114909/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/24/business/ftx-gabe-bankman-fried.html . live .
  25. News: Yaffe-Bellany . David . September 19, 2023 . Sam Bankman-Fried's Parents Sued by FTX . en-US . . September 19, 2023 . 0362-4331 . September 19, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230919084632/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/19/business/ftx-sam-bankman-fried-parents-sued.html . live .
  26. Book: Fried, Barbara H. . The Progressive Assault on Laissez Faire: Robert Hale and the First Law and Economics Movement . 2001 . . 978-0674006980 . September 14, 2023 . September 22, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230922044034/https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674006980 . live .
  27. Fried. Barbara. 2005. Left-Libertarianism, Once More: a Rejoinder to Vallentyne, Steiner and Otsuka. Philosophy and Public Affairs . 33. 216-222.
  28. Web site: Fried. Barbara H.. March 8, 2011. Can Contractualism Save Us from Aggregation?. Stanford Law School. November 14, 2022. November 14, 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20221114152408/https://law.stanford.edu/publications/can-contractualism-save-us-from-aggregation/. live.
  29. Fried. Barbara. August 1, 2012. The Holmesian Bad Man Flubs His Entrance. Suffolk University Law Review. 45. 627. September 14, 2023. March 27, 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200327092905/https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1957835. live.
  30. Fried. Barbara. July 1, 2012. What Does Matter? The Case for Killing the Trolley Problem (Or Letting It Die). Philosophical Quarterly. 62. September 14, 2023. June 1, 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230601101913/https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1781102. live.
  31. "Beyond Blame" . Fried . Barbara . June 28, 2013 . Boston Review . September 14, 2023 . September 22, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230922122659/https://www.bostonreview.net/forum/barbara-fried-beyond-blame-moral-responsibility-philosophy-law . live .
  32. Fried. Barbara. June 1, 2013. But Seriously, Folks, What Do People Really Want?. Boston Review. 65. 1249. September 27, 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230927024505/https://law.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/default/files/publication/440868/doc/slspublic/Fried_65_Stan._L._Rev._1249.pdf. live.
  33. Fried. Barbara. August 26, 2014. Emotional Empathy Is Not the Culprit. Boston Review. November 14, 2022. November 14, 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20221114152418/https://www.bostonreview.net/forum_response/barbara-h-fried-response-against-empathy-fried/. live.
  34. Shanske. Darien . Fried. Barbara. Bankman. Joseph. Luce. Kristine. October 24, 2014. Brief of Interested Law Professors as Amici Curiae Supporting Respondent in Direct Marketing Association v. Brohl. No. 13-1032 in the Supreme Court of the United States . 13 . 1032.
  35. Fried. Barbara. August 14, 2019. Facing Up To Risk. Journal of Legal Analysis . 10. 175. 175-198.
  36. Ayres. Ian . Bankman. Joseph. Fried. Barbara. Luce. Kristine. January 23, 2019. Anxiety Psychoeducation for Law Students: A Pilot Program. Journal of Legal Education . 67. 118.
  37. Book: Fried, Barbara H.. Facing Up to Scarcity: The Logic and Limits of Nonconsequentialist Thought. 2020. Oxford University Press. 978-0-19-188248-7. 10.1093/oso/9780198847878.001.0001. August 5, 2021. August 5, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210805210503/https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/oso/9780198847878.001.0001/oso-9780198847878. live.
  38. Web site: A Note to A.A. Milne . BH Fried . September 14, 2023 . March 25, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230325234927/https://www.bhfried.com/aa-milne . live .
  39. Web site: The Days are Gods . BH Fried . September 14, 2023 . March 26, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230326000904/https://www.bhfried.com/the-days-are-gods . live .
  40. Web site: Really . Word Riot . September 14, 2023 . September 27, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230927024533/https://www.bhfried.com/copy-of-after-henry-1 . live .
  41. Web site: House of Pies . 2011 . BH Fried . September 14, 2023 . September 22, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230922043937/https://www.bhfried.com/page2 . live .
  42. Web site: Two Stories . April 15, 2012 . Guernica Magazine . September 14, 2023 . January 28, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230128160656/https://www.guernicamag.com/barbara-fried/ . live .
  43. Web site: The Half-Life of Nat Glickstein . 2013 . Subtropics . September 14, 2023 . September 27, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230927024531/https://www.bhfried.com/the-half-life-of-nat-glickstein . live .
  44. Web site: It Goes Without Saying . Spring 2013 . Bellevue Literary Review . September 14, 2023 . September 27, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230927024539/https://www.bhfried.com/it-goes-without-saying . live .
  45. Web site: A Betting Man . 2014 . BH Fried . September 14, 2023 . September 22, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230922043937/https://www.bhfried.com/page2 . live .
  46. Web site: The History of Ideas . 2014 . BH Fried . September 14, 2023 . March 25, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230325234852/https://www.bhfried.com/the-history-of-ideas . live .
  47. Web site: What Makes That a Joke? . Spring 2014 . walleahpress.com.au . Communion . September 14, 2023 . March 9, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230309183502/https://walleahpress.com.au/communion1-Barbara_Fried.html . live .
  48. Web site: "After Henry" . 2017 . Los Angeles Review . September 14, 2023 . March 31, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230331185422/https://losangelesreview.org/henry-barbara-fried/ . live .
  49. Web site: What Remains . 2017 . BH Fried . September 14, 2023 . September 27, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230927024508/https://www.bhfried.com/copy-of-new-page . live .

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