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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, Stanford Public Law Working Paper, no. 899993.
• Barbara Allen Babcock, The Duty to Defend, 114 Yale Law Journal 1489 (2005).
• Barbara Allen Babcock, Clara Shortridge Foltz: 'First Woman', 28 Valparaiso University Law Review 1231-85 (1994) (Reprint, with new introduction, from 30 Arizona Law Review 673).
• Barbara Allen Babcock, A Place in the Palladium: Women's Rights and Jury Service, 61 University of Cincinnati Law Review 1139-80 (1993).
• Barbara Allen Babcock, Clara Shortridge Foltz: Constitution-maker, 66 Indiana Law Journal 849-940 (1991)
• Barbara Allen Babcock, Defending the Guilty, 32 Cleveland State Law Review 175 (1983-84).

References

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

External links

• In Celebration of Women's History Month, March 31, 2010

• American lawyers
• Living people
• University of Pennsylvania alumni
• Yale Law School alumni
• Stanford Law School faculty