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Jan.06.2012 - 9:34 am
For the last year I have been on a self-designed tour-tear all over the country selling Woman Lawyer: the Trials of Clara Foltz.
It is the story of a brilliant and courageous...
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Published Reviews
Mar.24.2011
Published by Stanford Law Review
Called “Portia of the Pacific,” Clara Shortridge Foltz, who lived from 1849 until 1934, was the first woman admitted to the practice of law in California, and achieved many other...
About Barbara
In 1972, I became the first woman professor at Stanford Law School. I have written a biography of the first woman lawyer on the Pacific Coast(1878). Clara Foltz was very famous in her day, but largely forgotten until now. My book recovers her ...