Barbara Aronstein Black

Barbara Aronstein Black (born 1933) 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. when she became Dean of Columbia Law School in 1986. Black is the George Wellwood Murray Professor of Legal History at Columbia. Black received her B.A. from Brooklyn College in 1953, her LL.B. from Columbia Law School in 1955, and a Ph.D. from Yale University in 1975. While at Law School, she was editor of the Columbia Law Review.

Barbara Aronstein Black

Barbara Aronstein Black (born 1933) 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. when she became Dean of Columbia Law School in 1986. Black is the George Wellwood Murray Professor of Legal History at Columbia. Black received her B.A. from Brooklyn College in 1953, her LL.B. from Columbia Law School in 1955, and a Ph.D. from Yale University in 1975. While at Law School, she was editor of the Columbia Law Review.