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Equal Rights Advocates mourns the loss of one its treasured founding mothers, legal trailblazer and Stanford Law Professor Emerita, Barbara Allen Babcock. Professor Babcock became Stanford Law’s first female faculty member in 1972. Her tenure followed a brilliant early career as a litigator at Washington, DC’s Williams & Connolly law firm.
Barbara Allen Babcock (July 6, 1938 – April 18, 2020) was the Judge John Crown Professor of Law, Emerita, at Stanford Law School. She was an expert in criminal and civil procedure and was a member of the Stanford Law School faculty from 1972 until her death. [1]
May 18, 2020 · Barbara A. Babcock, the first female tenured professor at Stanford Law School and former head of the U.S. Department of Justice civil division, was a pivotal figure in opening doors for women lawyers, including U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Babcock died April 18 after a long fight with cancer. She was 81.
Barbara Allen Babcock, the Judge John Crown Professor of Law, Emerita, died of cancer on April 18 at her Stanford home. She was 81. Encouraged by her lawyer father, whom she recalled as “a real Arkansas storyteller,” Babcock graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Pennsylvania and was just one of 13 women in her class of 175 ...
Jan 14, 2021 · Barbara Babcock presents the 2007 Max M. Shapiro Lecture at Boston University School of Law, telling the story of Clara Shortridge Foltz, the first woman to practice law in California and the first to propose a public defender system in which the government pays for the defense of the accused who cannot afford to hire a lawyer.
- Alba Holgado
- 2020
Barbara Babcock was an award-winning teacher and legal trailblazer who inspired the hundreds of students she taught. (Image credit: Rod Searcey) Babcock had waged a long battle with cancer. Her ...
Babcock, Falling Into Feminism: A Personal History, Memoirs (forthcoming 2016). Babcock, Inventing the Public Defender, 43 American Crim. L. Rev.1267 (2006). Babcock, Women Defenders in the West, 1 Nevada Law Review 1 (2001) Babcock, Feminist Lawyers, 50 Stanford Law Review 1689 (1998).
