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Jan.06.2012
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 woman who invented the public defender, raised five children on her own, tried cases when juries were all-male and was a...
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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 ...