Compassion and the Constitution, Making law, Applying law

Making a Hash of It.

By Bob Beers
Tuesday, September 22, 2009

William Forbath’s biography reads thusly:

“Willy Forbath holds the Lloyd Bentsen Chair in Law and is Professor of History at UT, Austin. This year, he is the Charles Warren Visiting Professor of Legal History at Harvard. He teaches constitutional law and legal and constitutional history. He is the author of Law and the Shaping of the American Labor Movement and other books, including the forthcoming Courting the State: Law in the Creation of the Modern American State and Social and Economic Rights in the American Grain, and many articles on legal and constitutional history and theory.â€