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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]

Life and career

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]

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