Barbara Aronstein Black | |
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Born |
Borough Park, New York, U.S. | May 6, 1933
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]
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]
Barbara Aronstein Black | |
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Born |
Borough Park, New York, U.S. | May 6, 1933
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]
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]