Barbara Babcock
Judge John Crown Professor of Law, Emerita

Publications & Cases

Recent Publications

Barbara Allen Babcock, Lineup, Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, Second Edition. Edited by Leonard W. Levy and Kenneth L. Karst. New York: Macmillan Reference, 2000. p.1627-1628.
Barbara Allen Babcock, Making History: Lelia Robinson's Index to American Women Lawyers, 2 GreenBag 65-67 (1998).
Barbara Allen Babcock, Feminist Lawyers, 50 Stanford Law Review 1689-1708 (1998).
Barbara Allen Babcock and George Fisher, Juries on Trial: A Dialogue Featuring the School's Inaugural Judge John Crown Professor and a Colleague Fresh from the Front, Stanford Lawyer 16-19 (Spring 1998).
Barbara Allen Babcock, Sisters in Law: Women Lawyers in Modern American History (book review), 50 Stanford Law Review 1689-1708 (1998)
Barbara Allen Babcock, Feminism and Affirmative Action, in We Won't Go Back: Making the Case for Affirmative Action, Charles R. Lawrence III and Mari J. Matsuda, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997. p. 151-177.
Barbara Allen Babcock, Deborah L. Rhode, Ann E. Freedman, Susan Deller Ross, Wendy Webster Williams, Rhonda Copelon, and Nadine H. Taub, Sex Discrimination and the Law: History, Practice, and Theory, Boston, MA: Little, Brown, 2nd edition, 1996.
Janet Cooper Alexander, Barbara A. Babcock, Richard T. Ford, Thomas Grey, Linda A. Mabry, Miguel Mendez, Deborah L. Rhode, and William L. Taylor, Brief Amicus Curiae, in COALITION FOR ECONOMIC EQUITY, et al. v. PETE WILSON, et al., U.S. D.C. for the Northern District of California, NO. C 96 4024 TEH (20 December 1996).
Barbara Allen Babcock, In Defense of the Criminal Jury, in Postmortem: the O.J. Simpson Case, edited by Jeffrey Abramson. New York: Basic Books, 1996.
Barbara Allen Babcock, Commentary, (Response to article by Gerald Gunther at 70 New York University Law Review 697) (Symposium: National Conference on Judicial Biography), 70 New York University Law Review 707-13 (1995).
Barbara Allen Babcock, Gerald Gunther, Morton J. Horwitz and Dennis J. Hutchinson, 'Contracted' Biographies and Other Obstacles to 'Truth, (Panel Discussion) 70 New York University Law Review 730-47 (1995).
Gerald Gunther, Barbara Allen Babcock, Morton J. Horwitz and Dennis J. Hutchinson, 'Contracted' Biographies and Other Obstacles to 'Truth, (Panel Discussion) 70 New York University Law Review 730-47 (1995).
Barbara Allen Babcock, Protect the Jury System, Judge was the Problem, Los Angeles Times, p.M6 (October 8, 1995).
Barbara Allen Babcock, Court Procedures Rarely Resemble Simpson's Preliminary Hearing, Austin American Statesman, p.A13 (July 12, 1994).
Barbara Allen Babcock, Made for TV Simpson Hearing Not Truly a Photo of American Justice, Phoenix Gazette, p.B7 (July 13, 1994).
Barbara Allen Babcock, Simpson Murder Case: Equal Justice - and a Defendant with the Money to Exercise Every Right, Los Angeles Times, p.26 (July 10, 1994).
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, Western Women Lawyers, 45 Stanford Law Review 2179-86 (1993) (This paper was a speech presented at the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference in August, 1992).
Barbara Allen Babcock, Taking the Stand, 35 William and Mary Law Review 1-19 (1993).
Barbara Allen Babcock, She Blazed the Trail: Clara Foltz Opened a Major Door for Women in 1878 When She Became the First Female Member of the State Bar, The Los Angeles Daily Journal, p.S16 (October 7, 1993).

bbabcock@stanford.edu

650 723.3055

Curriculum Vitae

Women's Legal History

Education:

BA University of Pennsylvania 1960
LLB Yale Law School 1963

Expertise:

Civil Procedure and Litigation
Criminal Procedure
Legal History