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Donald L Horowitz, James B Duke Professor of Law and Political Science

Donald L Horowitz
Contact Info:
Office Location:  3024 Law School
Office Phone:  +1 919 613 7058
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Teaching (Fall 2008):

Education:

Ph.D., Harvard University, 1968
M.A., Harvard University, 1965
LL.M., Harvard University, 1962
LL.B., Syracuse University, 1961
A.B., Syracuse University, 1959
Specialties:

Comparative Politics
Research Interests:

James B. Duke Professor of Law and Political Science, has written widely on the legal process, government lawyers, ethnic politics, and military coups. He is the author of The Courts and Social Policy, for which he won the Louis Brownlow Prize of the National Academy of Public Administration, as well as The Jurocracy: Government Lawyers, Agency Programs, and Judicial Decisions and Coup Theories and Officers’ Motives: Sri Lanka in Comparative Perspective. He has also published articles on ethnic conflict in Asia and Africa in such journals as World Politics, Comparative Politics, the Journal of Interdisciplinary History, the Annals, and Comparative Studies in Society and History. A former member of the editorial boards of the Law and Society Review and of Ethnicity, he has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the Woodrow Wilson Center, the U.S. Institute of Peace, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the National Humanities Center. His book Ethnic Groups in Conflict was published in 1985 and was selected as an outstanding academic book by Choice magazine. He was a Visiting Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge, in 1988 and of the Law Faculty at the University of Canterbury, in New Zealand, in 1995-96. His latest book, A Democratic South Africa? Constitutional Engineering in a Divided Society, published in 1991, won the 1992 Ralph J. Bunche Award of the American Political Science Association. An edited volume, Immigrants in Two Democracies: French and American Experience, appeared in 1992. In 1993, he was elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Professor Horowitz is currently engaged in studies of constitutional design, of legal change, and of democratization, and he has recently completed a book manuuscript entitled, The Deadly Ethnic Riot. Faculty

Curriculum Vitae
Recent Publications   (More Publications)

  1. D.L. Horowitz, Various articles, on legal institutions and on ethnic relations (2005) (New Republic, Commentary, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Le Monde, the New Leader, Africa Update, Development Digest, Problèmes Politiques et Sociaux (Paris), and the Wall Street Journal.) .
  2. D.L. Horowitz, The Alternative Vote and Interethnic Moderation: A Reply to Fraenkel and Grofman, Public Choice, vol. 121 no. 3-4 (October, 2004), pp. 507-16 .
  3. D.L. Horowitz, Some Realism About Constitutional Engineering, in Facing Ethnic Conflicts: Towards a New Realism, edited by Andreas Wimmer, et al (2004), pp. 245-57, Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield .
  4. D.L. Horowitz, Electoral Systems: A Primer for Decision Makers, Journal of Democracy, vol. 14 no. 4 (October, 2003), pp. 115-27 .
  5. D.L. Horowitz, Foreward: Compared to What?, Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law, vol. 13 (October, 2003), pp. 1-6 .