Donald Horowitz

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, including The Courts and Social Policy (1977), which won the Louis Brownlow Award of the national Academy of Public Administration and A Democratic South Africa? Constitutional Engineering in a Divided Society (1991), which won the Ralph Bunch Prize of the American Political Science Association. His project focuses on constitutional design, particularly for divided societies, a subject on which he has advised a number of countries. It assesses the effects of institutional arrangements that attempt to provide inter-ethnic accommodation and the obstacles to adoption of packages of conflict-reducing institutions. Horowitz will also consider additional conflict-mitigating institutions and alternative processes by which conciliatory institutions might be put in place.

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 2001-2, he was a Carnegie Scholar. in 2009, he was awarded the Distinguished Scholar Award of the Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Migration Section of the International Studies Association. He has recently worked on successive drafts of Kenya's new constitution for the Kenyan committee of Experts. Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1993, Professor Horowitz was a member of the Secretary of State's bipartisan Advisory Committee on Democracy Promotion from 2007 to 2009 and served as President of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy from 2007 to 2010. From 2010-2011, he was a fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C.

• The Deadly Ethnic Riot (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001)
• A Democratic South Africa? Constitutional Engineering in a Divided Society (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991)
• Ethnic Groups in Conflict (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985; 2000)
• Coup Theories and Officers = Motives: Sri Lanka in Comparative Perspective (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980)