William E. Forbath
- Lloyd M. Bentsen Chair in Law
- Professor
Willy Forbath holds the Lloyd M. Bentsen Chair and is a professor of history at UT. Forbath is an accomplished author, with his most recent work being ""The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution: Reconstructing the Economic Foundations of American Democracy"" (with Joseph Fishkin). He has been widely published on legal and constitutional history, as well as on theory and comparative constitutional law.
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Socialism Past and Future (Part I of II)
Willy Forbath holds the Lloyd M. Bentsen Chair and is Associate Dean of Research at UT Austin School of Law; he is also a Professor of History at UT. He is the author of Law and the Shaping of the American Labor Movement, the forthcoming The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution: Reconstructing the Economic Foundations of American Democracy (February, 2022)(with Joseph Fishkin), and dozens of articles, book chapters, and essays on legal and constitutional history and theory and comparative constitutional law. He is completing a history of Jews, law and identity politics in the twentieth century and starting a history of socialist lawyering and legal imagination. He occasionally writes on legal and constitutional issues for the New York Times, the Nation and other outlets, and is on the boards of several Texas organizations devoted to social movements and advocacy for affordable housing and workers’ rights. In addition to UT Austin, he has taught at UCLA, Sciences Po, Tel Aviv, Columbia, and Harvard.
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year-2020
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Socialism Past and Future (Part I of II)
William E Forbath, Socialism Past and Future (Part I of II), (June 18, 2020).
year-2019
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Book
THE ANTI-OLIGARCHY CONSTITUTION
THE ANTI-OLIGARCHY CONSTITUTION (forthcoming, Harvard University Press, 2019) (with Joseph R. Fishkin)
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William E. Forbath. “Paper Presentation” (April 1, 2019).
year-2017
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Book Chapter
Constitutionalism, Human Rights, and the Genealogy of American Jewish Liberalism: A Comment
William E. Forbath, Constitutionalism, Human Rights and the Genealogy of American Jewish Liberalism: A Comment, in THE LAW OF STRANGERS: JEWISH LAWYERING AND INTERNATIONAL LEGAL THOUGHT IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE, eds. James Loeffler, Moria Paz (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2018).
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Wealth, Commonwealth and the Constitution of Opportunity
Joseph R Fishkin, William E. Forbath. “Wealth, Commonwealth and the Constitution of Opportunity.” In 58 Wealth, Page 45 (2017). View online. -
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Op-Ed: A New Type of Labor Law for a New Type of Worker
William E. Forbath, Brishen Rogers, Op-Ed: A New Type of Labor Law for a New Type of Worker, The New York Times, September 4, 2017 (co-authored with Brishen Rogers). View Online
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The Democracy of Opportunity and Constitutional Politics: A Response
Joseph R. Fishkin, The Democracy of Opportunity and Constitutional Politics: A Response [Symposium: The Constitution and Economic Inequality], 94 Texas Law Review 1469 (2016) (with William Forbath).
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Reclaiming Constitutional Political Economy: An Introduction to the Symposium on the Constitution and Economic Inequality
Joseph R. Fishkin, Reclaiming Constitutional Political Economy: An Introduction to the Symposium on the Constitution and Economic Inequality [Symposium: The Constitution and Economic Inequality], 94 Texas Law Review 1287 (2016) (with William Forbath).
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spring 2026
- Const Law II: Constitutional History
- SMNR: Explorations in Constitutional Law & Politics Around the Globe