“Constitutional Process: A Fraught Enterprise” with Donald L. Horowitz, Duke University

2016 CASTLE LECTURES IN ETHICS, POLITICS & ECONOMICS

This is the third lecture of a three-part series on “Constitutional Design for Severely Divided Societies: Many Architects, Few Buildings.”

Lecture Three: Constitutional Process: A Fraught Enterprise Constitutional processes open possibilities for intergroup accommodation and democratic legitimacy, but they are also burdened with possibilities of dysfunction.

Speaker: Donald L. Horowitz is the James B. Duke Professor of Law and Political Science Emeritus at Duke University and a Senior Fellow in the International Forum for Democratic Studies at the National Endowment for Democracy. He holds law degrees from Syracuse and Harvard and a Ph.D. in political science from Harvard. Professor Horowitz 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, published in 2013 by Cambridge University Press and issued in a Bahasa Indonesia translation in 2014. Professor Horowitz is currently writing a book about constitutional process and design, particularly for divided societies, a subject on which he has advised in a number of countries.

Sponsored by the Program in Ethics, Politics and Economics at Yale University.