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Barbara Allen 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

Babcock received her undergraduate degree in 1960 from the University of Pennsylvania, where she was Phi Beta Kappa and Valedictorian of the College for Women. At Yale Law School, Babcock earned the Harlan Fiske Stone Prize for best oral argument in the first year and worked on the Yale Law Journal. She graduated Order of the Coif in 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 January 2011 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.

Key Works

• Barbara Allen Babcock, Inventing the Public Defender, 43 American Criminal Law Review 1267 (2006).
• Barbara Allen Babcock, The Duty to Defend, 114 Yale Law Journal 1489 (2005).
• Barbara Allen Babcock, Women Defenders in the West, 1 University of Nevada Law Journal 1 (Spring 2001).
• 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, Western Women Lawyers, 45 Stanford Law Review 2179 (1993).
• Barbara Allen Babcock, Clara Shortridge Foltz: Constitution-maker, 66 Indiana Law Journal 849-940 (1991)
• Barbara Allen Babcock, Reconstructing the Person: The Case of Clara Shortridge Foltz, 12 Biography 1 (1989).
• 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

• Woman Lawyer: The Trials of Clara Foltz, available at Stanford University Press
• In Celebration of Women's History Month, March 31, 2010

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