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]
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| Preceded by | Dean of Columbia Law School 1986–1991 |
Succeeded by Lance Liebman |
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