Barbara Fried

Barbara H. Fried (/frd/) is an American lawyer who is currently the William W. and Gertrude H. Saunders Professor of Law at Stanford Law School.[1][2]

Career

Fried joined the Harvard Law School Faculty in 1987 after working as an associate attorney at the law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison from 1984 to 1987. Before that, Fried served from 1983 to 1984 as a judicial law clerk under J. Edward Lumbard, Senior Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. She graduated from Harvard College with both a B.A. degree magna cum laude in 1977 and a M.A. in Literature in 1980, as well as a J.D. degree magna cum laude in 1983 from Harvard Law School.[2][3]

Personal life

Fried's sister Linda Fried is the Dean of the Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. Fried is married to fellow Stanford law professor Joseph Bankman, and they are the parents of billionaire crypto industry entrepreneur Sam Bankman-Fried.

She is a co-founder of the left-leaning political fundraising organization Mind the Gap and get-out-the-vote (GOTV) organizations including the Center for Voter Information.[4][5]

Published works

Fried is the author of Facing Up to Scarcity: The Logic and Limits of Nonconsequentialist Thought (2020).[6]

References

  1. "Barbara H. Fried". stanford.edu. Retrieved May 4, 2017.
  2. School, Stanford Law. "Barbara Fried". Stanford Law School. Retrieved 2019-11-28.
  3. School, Stanford Law. "Stanford Lawyer Fall 1987 Vol. 22, No. 1 Pg. 41" (PDF). Stanford Law School. Retrieved 2020-01-14.
  4. "Center for Voter Information". Center for Voter Information. Retrieved 2020-10-20.
  5. "Stanford-connected fundraising group wants to raise $140 million for Democrats in 2020". The Stanford Daily. Retrieved 2020-01-16.
  6. Fried, Barbara H. Facing Up to Scarcity: The Logic and Limits of Nonconsequentialist Thought. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oso/9780198847878.001.0001/oso-9780198847878. ISBN 978-0-19-188248-7.


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