Douglas B. Maggs Chair in Law
Associate Dean for Research

Professor Benjamin specializes in telecommunications law, the First Amendment, and administrative law. He has been the Douglas B. Maggs Chair in Law since 2009, and the Associate Dean for Research since 2005. From 2009 to 2011, he was the first Distinguished Scholar at the Federal Communications Commission.

He is a coauthor of Telecommunications Law and Policy (1^st ed. 2001, 2^nd ed. 2006, 3^rd ed. 2012), has written numerous law review articles, and has provided testimony to the Senate as a legal expert.

From 2001 to 2003 he was the Rex G. & Edna Baker Professor in Constitutional Law at the University of Texas School of Law, and from 1997 to 2001 he was an associate professor of law at the University of San Diego School of Law.

Before he began teaching law, Professor Benjamin clerked for 9^th Circuit Judge William C. Canby and for Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter; worked as an attorney-advisor in the Office of Legal Counsel in the U.S. Department of Justice; worked as an associate with Professor Laurence Tribe; and served as staff attorney for the Legal Resources Centre in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. He received his B.A. and J.D. from Yale University.