Donald Leonard Horowitz

Donald L. Horowitz is the James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of Law and Political Science at Duke University.  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, at Universiti Kebangsaan in Malaysia, and in the Academic Icon program at the University of Malaya.  In 2001, he was Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics, and in 2001-02, he was a Carnegie Scholar. In 2009, he was presented with the Distinguished Scholar Award of the Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Migration Section of the International Studies Association.

Professor Horowitz is currently writing a book about constitutional design, particularly for divided societies, a subject on which he has advised in a number of countries. In 2010-11, he was a Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson Center, working on this project. In 2011-12, he was a Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace and a Reagan-Fascell Fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy, and in 2013, he was a Siemens Prize Fellow of the American Academy in Berlin. In 2014, he was a visiting professor in the Academic Icon Program of the University of Malaya, and in the following year he served as a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the National University of Singapore. He served as President of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy from 2007 to 2010. He gave the Lipset Lecture in Washington and Toronto in 2013 and the Corry Lecture at Queens University in Ontario in the same year; keynote addresses and other named lectures at universities in various countries;  and in 2016 the Castle Lectures on Ethics, Politics, and Economics at Yale. and In 2011, Professor Horowitz was awarded an honorary doctoral degree by the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, the Flemish-speaking Free University of Brussels.