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

Contact Info:

Office Location:	Duke Law School 210 Science Drive
Office Phone:	(301) 907-0976
Email Address:

Education:

Ph.D.	Harvard University	1967
Ph.D.	Harvard University	1968
M.A.	Harvard University	1965
LL.M.	Harvard University	1962
LL.B.	Syracuse University	1961
B.A.	Syracuse University	1959
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

Keywords:

World • Asia • Africa • Law • Political Science • Ethnic politics • Military Coups

Curriculum Vitae

Postdocs Mentored

• Anoop Sadanandan (2010/12-present)  
• Ong K. Ming (2010/12-present)  
• David Siroky (2006 - 2009)  
• Ericka Albaugh (2003/12-2005/07)  
• Ericka Albaugh (2003 - 2005)  
• Yek T. Turkyilmaz (2002 - present)  

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. Horowitz, DL, Irredentas and secessions: Adjacent phenomena, neglected connections, in The Routledge Handbook of Ethnic Conflict: Second Edition (January, 2016), pp. 155-164, Routledge, ISBN 9781138847736 [doi]
2. Horowitz, DL, Ethnic power sharing: Three big problems, Journal of Democracy, vol. 25 no. 2 (January, 2014), pp. 5-20, Johns Hopkins University Press [doi]  [abs]
3. Diamond, L; Fukuyama, F; Horowitz, DL; Plattner, MF, Reconsidering the Transition Paradigm, Journal of Democracy, vol. 25 no. 1 (2014), pp. 86-100, Project Muse, ISSN 1045-5736 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
4. Horowitz, DL, Nein, Nein und Nochmals Nein: Ein Israelisch-Palästinensisches Abkommen Wird es so Schnell Nicht Geben, Internationale Politik, vol. 65 no. 6 (November, 2010), pp. 74-79, ISSN 1430-175X
5. D.L. Horowitz, Getting to No: Obstacles on the Road to Middle East Peace, The American Interest, September – October 2010. (2010)