Constitutional Processes for Severely Divided Societies
A Legal Theory Workshop with Professor , the world's foremost expert on the politics and institutions of ethnically divided societies, who has consulted with governments around the world on constitutional reform, federalism, and the protection of ethnic minorities.
The day before, Professor Horowitz will give a RGCS Lecture at McGill's Faculty club.
About the speaker
Donald L. Horowitz is the James B. Duke Professor of Law and Political Science Emeritus at Duke University and Senior Fellow at the International Forum for Democratic Studies of the National Endowment for Democracy.
He is the author of seven 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; The Deadly Ethnic Riot (2001); and Constitutional Change and Democracy in Indonesia (2013).
