Barbara Aronstein Black

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.[1] 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[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,[5] with whom she had three children, two sons and a daughter.[11][3] She left Academia for a time to focus on raising her children, and returned in 1965.[12]

Academic offices
Preceded by
Benno C. Schmidt Jr.		 Dean of Columbia Law School
1986–1991		 Succeeded by
Lance Liebman

References
  1. "Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter B" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived (PDF) from the original on 25 July 2011. Retrieved July 26, 2011.
  2. Kleiman, Carol (March 9, 1987). "More women practice law, but barriers remain". Chicago Tribune.
  3. "Biography · Barbara Aronstein Black · ABA Women Trailblazers Project". abawtp.law.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2020-05-15.
  4. "Winning due credit for life experience". Milwaukee Journal. January 6, 1986.
  5. McFadde, Robert (May 8, 2001). "Charles L. Black Jr., 85, constitutional law expert who wrote on impeachment, dies". New York Times.
  6. Moss, Michael (6 June 1988). "Challenge rules, roles, new graduates told". Newsday.
  7. "Faculty Profiles - Barbara Aronstein Black". Columbia Law School. Archived from the original on 2010-06-22. Retrieved 2010-02-21.
  8. "Barbara A. Black". www.law.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2020-05-15.
  9. "The Blackwell Award". Hobart and William Smith College.
  10. "HWS: Barbara Aronstein Black". Hobart and William Smith College.
  11. "Some memories of Charles L. Black, Jr". Yale Law Journal. June 1, 2002.
  12. "Woman in the News: Barbara Aronstein Black; Incoming Law School Dean with 2 Careers". The New York Times. 1986-01-02. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-05-15.


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