Robert O’Neil, a former Berkeley Law professor who chaired UC Berkeley’s Academic Senate Committee on Academic Freedom, was named general counsel of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) for 2010–12. His duties will include advising the organization, preparing amicus briefs, and monitoring legal developments in higher education. An expert on academic freedom and the author of several books, O’Neil is the founding director of the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression and a former president of the University of Virginia and the University of Wisconsin system. This marks his third different term as AAUP general counsel.