Shapiro Lecture by Barbara Babcock: Inventing the Public Defender
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Channel: Boston University · 2010 · Education
The 14th annual School of Law Shapiro Lecture presents Stanford Law Professor Barbara Babcock telling the story of Clara Shortridge Foltz, the first woman to practice law in California and the first to propose a public defender system in which the government pays for the defense of the accused who cannot afford to hire a lawyer. Hosted by Boston University School of Law on November 1, 2007.
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