Professor David M. Rabban has been re-appointed to a second two-year term as General Counsel of the American Association of University Professors for 2000-2002. In this position, he has overall responsibility for the legal work of the AAUP, including selecting the cases in which the organization files briefs. As General Counsel, he also serves on the Executive Committee of the AAUP and on its prestigious and influential Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure. Professor Rabban is carrying out his AAUP duties in addition to his regular teaching responsibilities at the Law School.
An expert in labor law and higher education law, Professor Rabban is also recognized as the nation's leading authority on the history of free speech law in the United States. His book Free Speech in Its Forgotten Years, 1870-1920 (Cambridge University Press, 1997) received the Forkosch Prize from the Journal of the History of Ideas as "the best book in intellectual history published in 1997."
Professor Rabban joined the UT faculty in 1983, and now holds the
Dahr Jamail, Randall Hage Jamail & Randall Lee Jamail Regents Chair
in Law. He has also been a Visiting Professor at the University of
Michigan Law School and a Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International
Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C.