David M. Rabban

  • Dahr Jamail, Randall Hage Jamail, and Robert Lee Jamail Regents Chair in Law
  • Distinguished Teaching Professor
  • Professor

Professor Rabban served as counsel to the American Association of University Professors for several years before joining the Texas faculty in 1983. He later served as its general counsel and as chair of its committee on academic freedom and tenure. His teaching and research focus on free speech, academic freedom, higher education and the law, and American legal history. He was a fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation in 2016 and of the Program in Law and Public Affairs at Princeton University in 2016-17. His most recent book is Academic Freedom: From Professional Norm to First Amendment Right

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Law & Liberty | September 26, 2024

The Law and Culture of Academic Freedom

The Hill | August 18, 2024

What does academic freedom really mean?