Barbara Aronstein Black was the first woman to head an Ivy League law school.[1] She became Dean of Columbia Law School in 1986.[2] She continues to teach at Columbia, where she is George Wellwood Murray Professor of Legal History.[3] She was also for two years president of the American Society for Legal History.[4] Professor 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 in 1975.[4] As a law professor, Professor Black's main interests are in contracts and legal history. She is a recipient of the Elizabeth Blackwell Award[6] and of the Federal Bar Association Prize of Columbia Law School.[7]
Professor Black is the widow of renowned constitutional scholar and civil rights pioneer Charles Black,[3] with whom she had three children.[8]
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