Barbara Aronstein Black (born May 6, 1933)[1] is an American legal scholar.
[3][4] Black is the George Wellwood Murray Professor of Legal History at Columbia.
[7] Black's work has been concentrated in the area of contracts and legal history.
She is a recipient of the Elizabeth Blackwell Award[10] and of the Federal Bar Association Prize of Columbia Law School.
[12][3] She left Academia for a time to focus on raising her children, and returned in 1965.