Barbara Fried

Barbara Fried
Photograph of Barbara Fried in profile
Fried in 2023
Born1951 (age 73–74)
PartnerJoseph Bankman
Children
RelativesLinda P. Fried (sister)
Academic background
Education
Academic work
DisciplineLaw
InstitutionsStanford Law School
Main interestsLegal ethics
Notable works"What Does Matter? The Case for Killing the Trolley Problem (Or Letting It Die)" (2012)[1]

Barbara Helen Fried (/friːd/) (born 1951)[2] is an American lawyer and professor emeritus at Stanford Law School.[3][4] She is the mother of FTX and Alameda Research co-Founder Sam Bankman-Fried, convicted on seven counts of criminal fraud as CEO of the now-defunct and bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange, alongside other company insiders.[5][6]

Education

She graduated from Harvard College with a B.A. degree magna cum laude in English and American Literature in 1977 and an M.A. degree in literature in 1980, as well as a J.D. degree magna cum laude in 1983 from Harvard Law School.[4][7] Fried served from 1983 to 1984 as a judicial law clerk for Judge J. Edward Lumbard of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Career

Fried joined the Stanford Law School Faculty as a tenure-track professor in 1987 after working as an associate attorney at the law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison from 1984 to 1987.[1][8] She has investigated such topics as contractualism, libertarianism, and utilitarianism,[8] and is considered an expert on legal ethics.[1] Fried has written about effective altruism and moral philosopher Peter Singer.[9][10] She has offered critiques on philosopher Robert Nozick's theory of property[11] and psychologist John Money's work on "fetally androgenized girls."[12] Her academic work centers on a branch of ethics known as consequentialism, or the idea that the results of our actions are more important than abstract notions of right and wrong.[1]

Fried is an affiliate of the Stanford Center on Poverty & Inequality.[13]

Fried retired from teaching in late 2022, which she said was a "long-planned" decision.[14]

Activism

Fried is a co-founder of the political fundraising organization Mind the Gap, which advocates support for Democratic Party candidates and funds get-out-the-vote groups.[15] The organization, described by Vox in January 2020 as "Silicon Valley's secretive donor group",[16][17] advises high-profile tech donors, including former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, on where to direct campaign contributions.[1]

In November 2022, Fried resigned from her chairwoman position with Mind the Gap.[18][19]

Personal life

Fried's partner is Stanford Law School professor Joseph Bankman, whom she met in 1988 while teaching at Stanford. The couple did not marry because they felt it was unfair to gay couples who could not legally marry.[1]

She is the mother of Sam Bankman-Fried,[20] the convicted founder and former CEO of now-bankrupt crypto exchange FTX,[21] and his younger brother, Gabe.[22][23] Fried's sister Linda P. Fried is the Dean of Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health.

Fried and Joseph Bankman were sued by the team overseeing the FTX bankruptcy in September 2023. The lawsuit alleges they unjustly enriched themselves, receiving a $10 million cash gift and a $16.4 million beachfront property in The Bahamas.[24]

Works

Academic work

  • The Progressive Assault on Laissez Faire: Robert Hale and the First Law and Economics Movement (2001)[25]
  • "Left-Libertarianism, Once More: a Rejoinder to Vallentyne, Steiner and Otsuka" (2005) [26]
  • Can Contractualism Save Us from Aggregation? (2012)[27]
  • "The Holmesian Bad Man Flubs His Entrance" (2012)[28]
  • "What Does Matter? The Case for Killing the Trolley Problem (Or Letting It Die)" (2012) [29]
  • "Beyond Blame" (2013) [30]
  • "But Seriously, Folks, What Do People Really Want?" (2013)[31]
  • "Emotional Empathy Is Not the Culprit" (2014) [32]
  • "Brief of Interested Law Professors as Amici Curiae Supporting Respondent in Direct Marketing Association v. Brohl" (2014)[33]
  • "Facing Up To Risk" (2019)[34]
  • "Anxiety Psychoeducation for Law Students: A Pilot Program" (2019)[35]
  • Facing Up to Scarcity: The Logic and Limits of Nonconsequentialist Thought (2020)[36]

Short stories

  • "A Note to A. A. Milne (on the occasion of my mother's 88th birthday)"[37]
  • "The Days are Gods"[38]
  • "Really" Word Riot[39]
  • "House of Pies" (2011, semi-finalist in New Millennium Writings' 2011 Fiction contest)[40]
  • "Song of Longing" and "Elegy for Daniel" (2012)[41]
  • "The Half-Life of Nat Glickstein" (2013), Subtropics, Issue 15 (2013 Winter), [42]
  • "It Goes Without Saying" (2013) Bellevue Literary Review (Spring 2013, finalist in BLR's 2013 Fiction contest; nominated for Pushcart Prize)[43]
  • "A Betting Man" (2014, top 25 in Glimmertrain's 2014 Very Short Fiction contest; long listed in Fish Publishing's 2014-15 Short Story Contest)[44]
  • "The History of Ideas" (2014)[45]
  • "What Makes That a Joke?" (2014) [46]
  • "After Henry" (2017)[47]
  • "What Remains" (2017, Winner of Fish Publishing's 2017 International Short Memoir Contest)[48]

References

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  5. ^ Baer, Justin (November 12, 2023). "Bankman-Fried's Parents Stand by Their Sam—and Face Their Own Legal Perils". WSJ. Retrieved November 13, 2023.
  6. ^ "Sam Bankman-Fried's Stanford law parents 'defeated' by his guilty verdict". East Bay Times. November 3, 2023. Retrieved November 13, 2023.
  7. ^ "New Faces: Barbara H. Fried (Assistant Professor)" (PDF). Stanford Lawyer. 22 (1): 41–43. Fall 1987. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 17, 2022. Retrieved September 26, 2023.
  8. ^ a b Driscoll, Sharon (November 11, 2013). "On Trolley Cars, Blame, and Other Diversions". Stanford Law School. Archived from the original on November 14, 2022. Retrieved November 14, 2022.
  9. ^ Fried, Barbara H. (August 20, 2014). "Emotional Empathy Is Not the Culprit". Boston Review. Archived from the original on November 14, 2022. Retrieved November 14, 2022.
  10. ^ Fried, Barbara H. (Summer 2015). "Not-So-Ordinary Altruism: A defense of effective altruism raises the question of just how effective that movement can be". Stanford Social Innovation Review. Archived from the original on November 14, 2022. Retrieved November 14, 2022.
  11. ^ Alexander, Gregory S. (2018). Property and Human Flourishing. Oxford University Press. p. 21. ISBN 978-0-19-086074-5. Archived from the original on May 10, 2023. Retrieved December 27, 2022.
  12. ^ Weidman, Nadine (October 19, 2021). Killer Instinct: The Popular Science of Human Nature in Twentieth-Century America. Harvard University Press. p. 243. ISBN 978-0-674-98347-2. Archived from the original on April 18, 2023. Retrieved December 27, 2022.
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  17. ^ A 501tax-exempt; NW, charitable organization 1300 L. St; Washington, Suite 200; Dc 20005857-0044. "Mind the Gap PAC Donors". OpenSecrets. Archived from the original on December 1, 2022. Retrieved December 1, 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
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  20. ^ "Exclusive: Bankman-Fried's FTX, parents bought Bahamas property worth $121 million". Reuters. Archived from the original on November 22, 2022. Retrieved November 22, 2022.
  21. ^ Mandl, Carolina (December 1, 2022). "Sam Bankman-Fried says he 'didn't ever try to commit fraud'". Reuters. Archived from the original on November 30, 2022. Retrieved December 1, 2022.
  22. ^ Diamond, Dan (November 16, 2022). "Before FTX collapse, founder poured millions into pandemic prevention". Washington Post. Archived from the original on November 27, 2022. Retrieved November 28, 2022. Sam Bankman-Fried, then a 28-year-old cryptocurrency entrepreneur, and his brother Gabe, a 25-year-old congressional staffer, said the pandemic provided them with something else...
  23. ^ Goldstein, Matthew; Yaffe-Bellany, David; Kelley, Lora (March 24, 2023). "The Younger Brother Caught in the Middle of the FTX Investigation". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on September 19, 2023. Retrieved September 19, 2023.
  24. ^ Yaffe-Bellany, David (September 19, 2023). "Sam Bankman-Fried's Parents Sued by FTX". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on September 19, 2023. Retrieved September 19, 2023.
  25. ^ Fried, Barbara H. (2001). The Progressive Assault on Laissez Faire: Robert Hale and the First Law and Economics Movement. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0674006980. Archived from the original on September 22, 2023. Retrieved September 14, 2023.
  26. ^ Fried, Barbara (2005). "Left-Libertarianism, Once More: a Rejoinder to Vallentyne, Steiner and Otsuka". Philosophy and Public Affairs. 33 (2): 216–222. doi:10.1111/j.1088-4963.2005.00031.x.
  27. ^ Fried, Barbara H. (March 8, 2011). "Can Contractualism Save Us from Aggregation?". Stanford Law School. Archived from the original on November 14, 2022. Retrieved November 14, 2022.
  28. ^ Fried, Barbara (August 1, 2012). "The Holmesian Bad Man Flubs His Entrance". Suffolk University Law Review. 45: 627. SSRN 1957835. Archived from the original on March 27, 2020. Retrieved September 14, 2023.
  29. ^ Fried, Barbara (July 1, 2012). "What Does Matter? The Case for Killing the Trolley Problem (Or Letting It Die)". Philosophical Quarterly. 62 (248): 505–529. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9213.2012.00061.x. SSRN 1781102. Archived from the original on June 1, 2023. Retrieved September 14, 2023.
  30. ^ Fried, Barbara (June 28, 2013). ""Beyond Blame"". Boston Review. Archived from the original on September 22, 2023. Retrieved September 14, 2023.
  31. ^ Fried, Barbara (June 1, 2013). "But Seriously, Folks, What Do People Really Want?" (PDF). Boston Review. 65: 1249. Archived (PDF) from the original on September 27, 2023.
  32. ^ Fried, Barbara (August 26, 2014). "Emotional Empathy Is Not the Culprit". Boston Review. Archived from the original on November 14, 2022. Retrieved November 14, 2022.
  33. ^ Shanske, Darien; Fried, Barbara; Bankman, Joseph; Luce, Kristine (October 24, 2014). "Brief of Interested Law Professors as Amici Curiae Supporting Respondent in Direct Marketing Association v. Brohl". No. 13-1032 in the Supreme Court of the United States (13): 1032.
  34. ^ Fried, Barbara (August 14, 2019). "Facing Up To Risk". Journal of Legal Analysis. 10 (175): 175–198. doi:10.1093/jla/laz003.
  35. ^ Ayres, Ian; Bankman, Joseph; Fried, Barbara; Luce, Kristine (January 23, 2019). "Anxiety Psychoeducation for Law Students: A Pilot Program". Journal of Legal Education. 67: 118.
  36. ^ Fried, Barbara H. (2020). Facing Up to Scarcity: The Logic and Limits of Nonconsequentialist Thought. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oso/9780198847878.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-188248-7. Archived from the original on August 5, 2021. Retrieved August 5, 2021.
  37. ^ "A Note to A.A. Milne". BH Fried. Archived from the original on March 25, 2023. Retrieved September 14, 2023.
  38. ^ "The Days are Gods". BH Fried. Archived from the original on March 26, 2023. Retrieved September 14, 2023.
  39. ^ "Really". Word Riot. Archived from the original on September 27, 2023. Retrieved September 14, 2023.
  40. ^ "House of Pies". BH Fried. 2011. Archived from the original on September 22, 2023. Retrieved September 14, 2023.
  41. ^ "Two Stories". Guernica Magazine. April 15, 2012. Archived from the original on January 28, 2023. Retrieved September 14, 2023.
  42. ^ "The Half-Life of Nat Glickstein". Subtropics. 2013. Archived from the original on September 27, 2023. Retrieved September 14, 2023.
  43. ^ "It Goes Without Saying". Bellevue Literary Review. Spring 2013. Archived from the original on September 27, 2023. Retrieved September 14, 2023.
  44. ^ "A Betting Man". BH Fried. 2014. Archived from the original on September 22, 2023. Retrieved September 14, 2023.
  45. ^ "The History of Ideas". BH Fried. 2014. Archived from the original on March 25, 2023. Retrieved September 14, 2023.
  46. ^ "What Makes That a Joke?". walleahpress.com.au. Communion. Spring 2014. Archived from the original on March 9, 2023. Retrieved September 14, 2023.
  47. ^ ""After Henry"". Los Angeles Review. 2017. Archived from the original on March 31, 2023. Retrieved September 14, 2023.
  48. ^ "What Remains". BH Fried. 2017. Archived from the original on September 27, 2023. Retrieved September 14, 2023.