Barbara Fried


Barbara H. Fried is an American lawyer who is currently the William W. and Gertrude H. Saunders Professor of Law at Stanford Law School. 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.