Donald L Horowitz, James B Duke Professor of Law and Political Science
- Contact Info:
| Office Location: | 3024 Law School |
| Office Phone: | (919) 613-7058 |
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Teaching (Fall 2009):
- LAW 285.01, LABOR RELATIONS LAW
- Law School 4172, MW 11:05 AM-12:26 PM
- LAW 717.01, COMP CONSTITUTIONAL DESIGN
- Law School 4172, Tu 01:40 PM-04:25 PM
- 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:
Donald L. Horowitz is the James B. Duke Professor of Law and Political Science at Duke University. Professor Horowitz is the author of six books: The Courts and Social Policy (1977), which won the Louis Brownlow Award of the National Academy of Public Administration; The Jurocracy (1977), a book about government lawyers; Coup Theories and Officers’ Motives: Sri Lanka in Comparative Perspective (1980); Ethnic Groups in Conflict(1985, 2000); A Democratic South Africa? Constitutional Engineering in a Divided Society (1991), which won the Ralph Bunche Prize of the American Political Science Association; and The Deadly Ethnic Riot (2001). Professor Horowitz has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago Law School and at the Central European University and a Visiting Fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge, at the Law Faculty of the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, and at Universiti Kebangsaan in Malaysia. In 2001, he was Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics, and in 2001-02, he was a Carnegie Scholar. Professor Horowitz is currently writing a book about constitutional design, particularly for divided societies, a subject on which he has advised a number of countries. Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1993, he is currently President of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy and is a member of the Secretary of State’s bipartisan Advisory Committee on Democracy Promotion.
- Recent Publications
(More Publications)
- 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.) .
- 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 .
- 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 .
- D.L. Horowitz, Electoral Systems: A Primer for Decision Makers, Journal of Democracy, vol. 14 no. 4 (October, 2003), pp. 115-27 .
- D.L. Horowitz, Foreward: Compared to What?, Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law, vol. 13 (October, 2003), pp. 1-6 .