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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Constitutional Politics and Dilemmas on the Left
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-1991
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Article
Would European Models of Government Make America More Democratic? A Skeptical View
William E. Forbath, Would European Models of Government Make America More Democratic? A Skeptical View, 16 Law & Social Inquiry 717 (1991). -
Book
LAW AND THE SHAPING OF THE AMERICAN LABOR MOVEMENT
William E. Forbath. LAW AND THE SHAPING OF THE AMERICAN LABOR MOVEMENT ( Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1991). -
Book Chapter
Labor and the Constitution
William E. Forbath, Labor and the Constitution, in Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, Supplement I (L. Levy, K. Karst & J. West eds.; New York: Macmillan, 1991).
year-1989
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Article
The Shaping of the American Labor Movement
William E. Forbath, The Shaping of the American Labor Movement, 102 Harvard Law Review 1109 (1989).
year-1988
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Article
Deviationist Doctrine and Constitutional History
William E. Forbath, Deviationist Doctrine and Constitutional History, 42 Radical History Review 33 (1988).
year-1986
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Book
THE UNQUIET YEARS, Vol. 19 in THE AMERICAN DESTINY: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES
THE UNQUIET YEARS, vol. 19 in THE AMERICAN DESTINY: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES (Henry Steele Commager ed; London: Orbis, 1986) (with E. J. Dionne).
year-1983
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Book Review
Taking Lefts Seriously
William E. Forbath, Taking Lefts Seriously, 92 Yale Law Journal 1041 (1983) (reviewing The Politics of Law: A Progressive Critique, ed. by David Kairys).