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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Professor Rabban served as counsel to the American Association of University Professors for several years before joining the Texas faculty in 1983. He served as General Counsel of the AAUP from 1998 to 2006 and Chair of its Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure from 2006 to 2012. His teaching and research focus on free speech, higher education and the law, and American legal history. He is the author of Free Speech in Its Forgotten Years, 1870-1920 (Cambridge,1997), which received the Forkosch Prize from the Journal of the History of Ideas for "the best book in intellectual history published in 1997." His many articles have appeared in Yale Law Journal, Stanford Law Review, University of Chicago Law Review, Cambridge Law Journal, and elsewhere. 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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year-1989
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Article
Distinguishing Excluded Managers From Covered Professionals Under the NLRA
David M. Rabban, Distinguishing Excluded Managers From Covered Professionals Under the NLRA, 89 Columbia Law Review 1775 (1989). -
Other Publication
The original meaning of the free speech clause of the First Amendment
David M. Rabban, The original meaning of the free speech clause of the First Amendment, in The United States Constitution: the First 200 Years 36 (Richard C. Simmon ed.; Manchester, U.K.: Manchester University Press, in association with the Fulbright Commission, 1989).
year-1988
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Book Review
Academic Unionism in British Universities, by Archie Kleingartner & Evelyn Hunt
David M. Rabban, Academic Unionism in British Universities, by Archie Kleingartner & Evelyn Hunt, 41 Industrial & Labor Relations Review 628 (1988). -
Article
Does Academic Freedom Limit Faculty Autonomy?
David M. Rabban, Does Academic Freedom Limit Faculty Autonomy?, 66 Texas Law Review 1405 (1988).
year-1987
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Book Review
The State and the Unions: Labor Relations, Law and the Organized Labor Movement in America, 1860-1960, by Christopher Tomlins
David M. Rabban, The State and the Unions: Labor Relations, Law and the Organized Labor Movement in America, 1860-1960, by Christopher Tomlins, 54 University of Chicago Law Review 407 (1987).
year-1985
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Article
The Ahistorical Historian: Leonard Levy on Freedom of Expression in Early American History
David M. Rabban, The Ahistorical Historian: Leonard Levy on Freedom of Expression in Early American History, 37 Stanford Law Review 795 (1985).
year-1984
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Book Review
Values and Assumptions in American Labor Law, by James B. Atleson
David M. Rabban, Values and Assumptions in American Labor Law, by James B. Atleson, 84 Columbia Law Review 1118 (1984).
year-1983
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Article
The Emergence of Modern First Amendment Doctrine
David M. Rabban, The Emergence of Modern First Amendment Doctrine, 50 University of Chicago Law Review 1205 (1983).
year-1981
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Article
The First Amendment in Its Forgotten Years
David M. Rabban, The First Amendment in Its Forgotten Years, 90 Yale Law Journal 514 (1981).
year-1973
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Article
Note, Judicial Review of the University-Student Relationship: Expulsion and Governance
David M. Rabban, Note, Judicial Review of the University-Student Relationship: Expulsion and Governance, 26 Stanford Law Review 95 (1973).