Tribute to Charles Black. (Columbia Law School law professor)

Yale Law Journal, June, 2002 by Clinton, Hillary Rodham

I want to thank Barbara for asking me to speak here at this memorial service and celebration of Charles Black's life. I particularly pay my respects to his family. I thank Barbara not only for her friendship and leadership, but also for what she did both directly and indirectly on behalf of women in the law for so many years. As I recall, and it may only be my hazy recollection, Charles Black once told me that the reason he was put out with Yale was because of the nepotism rules then in place that prevented the Law School from employing both Barbara and Charles, which he thought was an extraordinary injustice and loss for the Law School.

I don't know if that was the case, but I do know that Barbara's scholarship, her teaching here at Columbia, and her deanship...

Read the rest of this article with a Free Trial at HighBeam Research.

Premium Content Partnership | HighBeam Research provides an in-depth online archive library of reference works.