Barbara Fried

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

She is a co-founder of Mind the Gap, "the secretive Stanford-connected Democratic fundraising group" that funnels millions of dollars toward competitive U.S. House of Representative elections and get-out-the-vote (GOTV) organizations including the Center for Voter Information.[4][5] Fried is the author of Facing Up to Scarcity: The Logic and Limits of Nonconsequentialist Thought (2020).[6]

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  1. ^ "Barbara H. Fried". stanford.edu. Retrieved May 4, 2017.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b 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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