Barbara A. Black (1933-2026)

Barbara A. Black who was Dean at Columbia Law School in the 1980s (when I there), has died. Black was a colonial American legal historian, and she will be missed. I will certainly miss her. She was kind enough to talk with me about a Note in the Columbia Law Review. She was the author of “The Constitution of Empire: The Case of the Colonists,” which was quite important. It was published in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review in 1976.