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David Williams

Faculty bibliography for Professor David Williams

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David Williams

John S. Hastings Professor of Law; Executive Director, Center for Constitutional Democracy


A Second Panglong Agreement: Burmese Federalism for the Twenty-First Century, in CONSTITUTIONALISM AND LEGAL CHANGE IN MYANMAR (Andrew Harding, Ed.). Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2017.

Sometimes Guns Are the Answer: The Path to Autonomy in Tibet, Burma, and South Sudan, in REGIONAL AUTONOMY, CULTURAL DIVERSITY, AND DIFFERENTIATED TERRITORIAL GOVERNMENT: THE CASE OF TIBET -- CHINESE AND COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES (R. Toniatti and J. Woelk, Eds.). Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2017.

Asymmetrical Federalism in Burma in SOCIAL DIFFERENCE AND CONSTITUTIONALISM IN PAN-ASIA (Susan H. Williams, Ed.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.

What's So Bad About Burma's 2008 Constitution? A Guide for the Perplexed, in LAW, SOCIETY AND TRANSITION IN MYANMAR (M. Crouch and T. Lindsey, Eds.). Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2014.

Revolutions and Institutions: Political Violence and Sri Lanka's 1972 Constitution, in THE SRI LANKAN REPUBLIC AT 40: REFLECTIONS ON CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY, THEORY AND PRACTICE (Asanga Welikala, Ed.). Colombo: Centre for Policy Alternatives, 2012.

In Praise of Guilt: How the Yearning for Moral Purity Blocks Reparations for Native Americansin REPARATIONS FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES: INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES (F. Lenzerini, Ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.

La Situation Juridique Amerindiens des Etats-Unis, in LES COLLECTIVITES FRANCAISES D'AMERIQUE AU CARREFOUR DES INSTITUTIONS (Jean-Yves Faberon, Ed.). Paris: La Documentation Francaise, 2006.

Introduction -- Trying Custer and The Sentence, in THE COURT-MARTIAL OF GEORGE ARMSTRONG CUSTER (edited with Fred H. Cate and Dennis H. Long). Bloomington: Indiana University School of Law, 2001.

Radical Populist Constitutional Interpretation, in THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE AMERICAN CONSTITUTION, 2nd ed. (Adam Winkler, Ed.) New York: Macmillan Reference, 2000.

The Right of Revolution and Radical Populist Constitutional Interpretation, in THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE AMERICAN CONSTITUTION, 2nd ed., Supplement II, (L. W. Levy, et al, Eds.). New York: Macmillan Reference, 2000.