Oral history interview with Edith L. Fisch, 1997

Biographical Note

Attorney-at-law

Scope and Contents

Childhood: New York City, Brooklyn, family; education: BA Chemistry Brooklyn College 1945, LLB Columbia University 1948, LLM Columbia University 1949, JScD Columbia University 1950; career: Associate Professor of Law at New York University, publications, private practice, American Arbitration Association, New York Bar; sexual discrimination: Columbia Law School, women and job searches, women and the legal professions, women and teaching positions in law schools, women and tenure at law schools; physical impairment due to polio: adolescence and adulthood, challenges in education, challenges in the workplace

Subjects

• Columbia University. School of Law--Alumni and alumnae.
• Fisch, Edith L.--Interviews.
• Gould, Bruce, interviewer.
• Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Women lawyers--Interviews.

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