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Barbara Babcock is a Judge John Crown Professor of Law, Emerita at ]. She is an expert in criminal and civil procedure, and has been a member of the Stanford Law School faculty since 1972.<ref>http://www.law.stanford.edu/directory/profile/5/Barbara%20Babcock/</ref> Barbara Babcock is the Judge John Crown Professor of Law, Emerita at ]. She is an expert in criminal and civil procedure, and has been a member of the Stanford Law School faculty since 1972.<ref>http://www.law.stanford.edu/directory/profile/5/Barbara%20Babcock/</ref>




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==Academic and Professional Career== ==Academic and Professional Career==
The first woman appointed to the regular faculty, as well as the first woman to hold an endowed chair and the first emerita, at Stanford Law School. She is also known nationwide for her research into the history of women in the legal profession and, in particular, for her research into the life of California’s pioneering female lawyer and inventor of the public defender, Clara Shortridge Foltz <ref>http://www.law.stanford.edu/library/womenslegalhistory/csf03.html</ref>, whose biography she is currently writing. The first woman appointed (in 1972)to the regular faculty, as well as the first woman to hold an endowed chair and the first emerita, at Stanford Law School, Babcock is also known nationwide for her research into the history of women in the legal profession and, in particular, for her work on the life of California’s pioneering female lawyer and founder of the public defender, Clara Shortridge Foltz. <ref>http://www.law.stanford.edu/library/womenslegalhistory/csf03.html</ref>.''' Woman Lawyer: The Trials of Clara Foltz''' is forthcoming in 2010 from the Stanford University Press.


A former assistant attorney general for the Civil Division in the U.S. Department of Justice, Professor Babcock is a distinguished teacher, being the only four-time winner of the John Bingham Hurlbut Award for Excellence in Teaching at Stanford Law School. Before joining the Stanford faculty in 1972, she served as a staff attorney and then as the first director of the Public Defender Service of the District of Columbia. Upon her graduation from law school, she clerked for Judge Henry Edgerton of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and worked for the noted criminal defense attorney, Edward Bennett Williams. Upon her graduation from law school in 1963, Babcock clerked for Judge Henry Edgerton of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and worked for the noted criminal defense attorney, Edward Bennett Williams. She served as a staff attorney and then as the first director of the Public Defender Service of the District of Columbia from 1968 until 1972. On leave from Stanford in the Carter Administration, Babcock served as assistant attorney general for the Civil Division in the U.S. Department of Justice.

Professor Babcock is a distinguished teacher, being the only four-time winner of the John Bingham Hurlbut Award for Excellence in Teaching at Stanford Law School.




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==Key Works== ==Key Works==


Barbara Allen Babcock, Inventing The Public Defender<ref>http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=899993</ref>, Stanford Public Law Working Paper, no. 899993. Barbara Allen Babcock, Inventing The Public Defender<


==References== ==References==

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Barbara Babcock
File:Babcock-desk portrait-wiki.jpg
BornBarbara A. Babcock
NationalityAmerican
EducationUniversity of Pennsylvania
Yale Law School
Occupation(s)Law professor emerita
Author
SpouseThomas C. Grey


Barbara Babcock is the Judge John Crown Professor of Law, Emerita at Stanford Law School. She is an expert in criminal and civil procedure, and has been a member of the Stanford Law School faculty since 1972.


Early Life and Education

BA, University of Pennsylvania, 1960 LLB, Yale Law School, 1963

Academic and Professional Career

The first woman appointed (in 1972)to the regular faculty, as well as the first woman to hold an endowed chair and the first emerita, at Stanford Law School, Babcock is also known nationwide for her research into the history of women in the legal profession and, in particular, for her work on the life of California’s pioneering female lawyer and founder of the public defender, Clara Shortridge Foltz. . Woman Lawyer: The Trials of Clara Foltz is forthcoming in 2010 from the Stanford University Press.

Upon her graduation from law school in 1963, Babcock clerked for Judge Henry Edgerton of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and worked for the noted criminal defense attorney, Edward Bennett Williams. She served as a staff attorney and then as the first director of the Public Defender Service of the District of Columbia from 1968 until 1972. On leave from Stanford in the Carter Administration, Babcock served as assistant attorney general for the Civil Division in the U.S. Department of Justice.

Professor Babcock is a distinguished teacher, being the only four-time winner of the John Bingham Hurlbut Award for Excellence in Teaching at Stanford Law School.


Courses Taught

Personal life

Key Works

Barbara Allen Babcock, Inventing The Public Defender<

References

  1. http://www.law.stanford.edu/directory/profile/5/Barbara%20Babcock/
  2. http://www.law.stanford.edu/library/womenslegalhistory/csf03.html

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