RGCS Lecture: Donald Horowitz, "Federalism for Severely Divided Societies: Possibilities and Pathologies"

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). He is the world's foremost expert on the politics and institutions of ethnically divided societies, and has consulted with governments around the world on constitutional reform, federalism, and the protection of ethnic minorities.

This RGCS Lecture is cosponsored by the Department of Political Science, the Faculty of Law, the Faculty of Arts, the Institute for the Study of International Development, the European Union Centre for Excellence, the Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship, and the Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism. This lecture has received additional support from the Beatty Memorial Lectures Committee.

Free and open to the public. A reception will follow.