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William Forbath
William Forbath, Ph.D.
Professor
Board Member, American Society for Legal History
Board Member, Texas Low-Income Housing Information Services
History
College of Liberal Arts

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512 232 1326
E-mail: wforbath@mail.law.utexas.edu

WEB PAGE
http://www.utexas.edu/law/faculty/profile.php?id=wef58


BIOGRAPHY

Professor Forbath came to Texas in 1997 after more than a decade on the faculties of law and history at UCLA. Among the nation's leading legal and constitutional historians, he is the author of Law and the Shaping of the American Labor Movement (Harvard, 1991), the forthcoming Social and Economic Rights in the American Grain and Courting the State: Law in the Making of the Modern American State and about one hundred articles, book chapters, and essays on legal and constitutional history and theory. His scholarly work appears in Yale Law Journal, Harvard Law Review, Stanford Law Review, Law and Social Inquiry, and the Journal of American History; his journalism at Politico.com and in American Prospect and the Nation. His current research concerns social and economic rights in the courts and social movements of South Africa. Professor Forbath visited at Columbia Law School in 2001-02 and at Harvard Law School in 2008-09. He is on the Editorial Boards of Law & History, Law & Social Inquiry: Journal of the American Bar Foundation, and other journals, and on the Board of Directors of the American Society for Legal History, Texas Low-Income Housing Information Services, and other public interest organizations. Here is a sampling of Forbath's recent work on Social and Economic Rights in the American Grain in THE CONSTITUTION IN 2020 (Jack M. Balkin & Reva B. Siegel eds.; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009)
Media Relations CONTACT
Michelle Bryant
512-232-4730
mbryant@austin.utexas.edu

Jessica Sinn
512-471-2404
sinnjessica@austin.utexas.edu

David Ochsner
512-475-9712
dochsner@austin.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Constitutional history, legal history, social and economic rights in courts, social movements of Africa, Texas low-income housing

PUBLICATIONS
Law and the Shaping of the American Labor Movement

 




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