Helen Elsie Steinbinder (1923 – 2 July 2015) was an American law professor and the first female professor of law at the Georgetown University.
Life 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.
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.WOMEN & THE LAW TIME LINE (1619 - 1998) - Women's Legal History15 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 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.A Laboratory for Legal Education: The Graduate Program at Georgetown Law Helen Steinbinder and Mabel Dole Haden were the first women to receive a Master of Law (LL.M.) degree in 1956.GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY LAW CENTER (1870-2010) - Georgetown UniversityFALL/WINTER 1993 Res Ipsa Loquitur - The Georgetown University Law Center MagazineA Laboratory for Legal Education: The Graduate Program at Georgetown Law
She then went on to be the first female Law Professor at Georgetown Law School teaching her first course in 1957.A Laboratory for Legal Education: The Graduate Program at Georgetown LawWOMEN & THE LAW TIME LINE (1619 - 1998) - Women's Legal HistoryFALL/WINTER 1993 Res Ipsa Loquitur - The Georgetown University Law Center MagazineA Laboratory for Legal Education: The Graduate Program at Georgetown Law - Georgetown University 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)Res Ipsa Loquitur - About the collection - a student newspaper and alumni magazine of Georgetown University.Res Ipsa Loquitur Vol. 7 No. 2, April 1955, Georgetown UniversityRes Ipsa Loquitur Vol.7 No. 1, December 1957 She retired in 1988 and died on 2 July 2015.
Personal life She lived most of her life in Butler, New Jersey, where she was a supporter of St. Anthony Church School.
Sources 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
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