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Helen Steinbinder | |
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| Born | Helen Elsie Steinbinder 1923 (age 102–103) |
| Died | July 2, 2015 (aged 91–92) Butler, New Jersey, United States |
| Occupation | Professor of Law |
| Years active | 1957-1988 |
| Known for | First female professor at Georgetown Law School |
Helen Elsie Steinbinder (1923 – 2 July 2015) was an American law professor and the first female professor of law at the Georgetown University.[1]
Life
[edit]She was born as Helen Elsie Steinbinder in New York City, New York, to a middle-class family. Her parents were Charles Steinbinder, an upholsterer and Mary Benis. They came from Hungary to the United States.[2]
She graduated in Manhattanville College. After that she continued her education at the Columbia University where she achieved a Masters of Library Science degree. Then she graduated with a Doctorate of Law from Georgetown University Law School in 1954.[3][4][5] She was part of the first female class where she and Katherine Rutherford Keener were the first women in the so-called "afternoon class" 1952–1953 to receive a Juris Doctor degree.[6][7] Helen Steinbinder and Mabel Dole Haden were the first women to receive a Master of Law (LL.M.) degree in 1956.[8][9][10]
She then went on to be the first female Law Professor at Georgetown Law School teaching her first course in 1957.[11][12][13][14][15] She taught classes in real estate and property and worked also as a faculty adviser for Res Ipsa Loquitur (since 1994 as Georgetown Law Journal)[16] - a student newspaper and alumni magazine of Georgetown University.[17][18][19] She retired in 1988 and died on 2 July 2015.[20]
Personal life
[edit]She lived most of her life in Butler, New Jersey, where she was a supporter of St. Anthony Church School.
Sources
[edit]- U.C. Davis law review (2002), Volume 36, Edition 1-3 - University of California
- Alumni Notes (1947), Volumes 8-9 - University of Michigan. Dept. of Library Science
References
[edit]- ↑ "Helen Steinbinder Obituary (2015) the Record/Herald News". Legacy.com.
- ↑ "Helen Steinbinder in the 1940 Census | Ancestry®". Ancestry.com.
- ↑ WOMEN & THE LAW TIME LINE (1619 - 1998) - Women's Legal History
- ↑ 15 Years of Advocacy for Women: Women & the Law, COHEN, MILSTEIN, HAUSFELD & TOLL, P.L.L.C., nd.
- ↑ FALL/WINTER 1993 Res Ipsa Loquitur - The Georgetown University Law Center Magazine
- ↑ A Laboratory for Legal Education: The Graduate Program at Georgetown Law
- ↑ "Georgetown Law School Magazine - In Memoriam Helen Steinbinder (L'55, LL.M.'56)". Archived from the original on 2018-02-09. Retrieved 2018-02-08.
- ↑ GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY LAW CENTER (1870-2010) - Georgetown University
- ↑ FALL/WINTER 1993 Res Ipsa Loquitur - The Georgetown University Law Center Magazine
- ↑ A Laboratory for Legal Education: The Graduate Program at Georgetown Law
- ↑ A Laboratory for Legal Education: The Graduate Program at Georgetown Law
- ↑ "Georgetown Law School Magazine - In Memoriam Helen Steinbinder (L'55, LL.M.'56)". Archived from the original on 2018-02-09. Retrieved 2018-02-08.
- ↑ WOMEN & THE LAW TIME LINE (1619 - 1998) - Women's Legal History
- ↑ FALL/WINTER 1993 Res Ipsa Loquitur - The Georgetown University Law Center Magazine
- ↑ A Laboratory for Legal Education: The Graduate Program at Georgetown Law - Georgetown University
- ↑ Res Ipsa Loquitur - About the collection
- ↑ "Georgetown Law School Magazine - In Memoriam Helen Steinbinder (L'55, LL.M.'56)". Archived from the original on 2018-02-09. Retrieved 2018-02-08.
- ↑ Res Ipsa Loquitur Vol. 7 No. 2, April 1955, Georgetown University
- ↑ Res Ipsa Loquitur Vol.7 No. 1, December 1957
- ↑ "Georgetown Law School Magazine - In Memoriam Helen Steinbinder (L'55, LL.M.'56)". Archived from the original on 2018-02-09. Retrieved 2018-02-08.