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Susan Williams

Faculty bibliography for Professor Susan Williams

Book Chapter

Susan Williams

Walter W. Foskett Professor of Law; Director, Center for Constitutional Democracy


Constitutional Reform and Women's Political Participation: Electoral Gender Quotas in Post-Arab Spring Egypt, Tunisia, and Jordan in FROM PARCHMENT TO PRACTICE (Tom Ginsburg and Aziz Huq, eds.). Cambridge University Press, 2020.

Dialogic Democracy, Feminist Theory, and Women's Participation in Constitution-Making, in WOMEN AS CONSTITUTION-MAKERS: CASE STUDIES FROM THE NEW DEMOCRATIC ERA (Ruth Rubio-Marin and Helen Irving, Eds.). New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Legal Pluralism, Gender Equality and Parity of Participation: Constitutional Issues Concerning Customary Law in Liberia, in GENDER PARITY AND MULTICULTURAL FEMINISM (Ruth Rubio-Marin and Will Kymlicka, Eds.). New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. 

Religion, Custom, and Legal Pluralism, in CONSTITUTIONS AND GENDER (Helen Irving, Ed.). Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017.

Customary Law, Constitutional Law, and Women's Equality, in THE PUBLIC LAW OF GENDER: FROM THE LOCAL TO THE GLOBAL (Kim Rubenstein and Katharine G. Young, Eds.). New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016.

Democratic Theory, Feminist Theory, and Constitutionalism: The Challenge of Multiculturalism, in FEMINIST CONSTITUTIONALISM (B. Baines, D. Barak-Erez, & T. Kahana, Eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2012).

A Feminist View of Mercy, Judgment, and the "Exception" in the Context of Transitional Justice, in MERCIFUL JUDGMENTS AND CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY: LEGAL PROBLEMS, LEGAL POSSIBILITIES (Austin Sarat, Ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. 

Gender Equality in Constitutional Design: An Overview for Sri Lankan Drafters, in THE SRI LANKAN REPUBLIC AT 40: REFLECTIONS ON CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY, THEORY AND PRACTICE (Asanga Welikala, Ed.). Colombo: Centre for Policy Alternatives, 2012.

Introduction: Comparative Constitutional Law, Gender Equality, and Constitutional Design, in CONSTITUTING EQUALITY: GENDER EQUALITY AND COMPARATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL LAW (Susan H. Williams, Editor). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Equality, Representation, and Challenge to Hierarchy: Justifying Electoral Quotas for Women, in CONSTITUTING EQUALITY: GENDER EQUALITY AND COMPARATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL LAW (Susan H. Williams, Editor). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Women in the Constitutional Drafting Process in Burma (with Thin Thin Aung), in CONSTITUTING EQUALITY: GENDER EQUALITY AND COMPARATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL LAW (Susan H. Williams, Editor). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Theorie Feministe et Liberte d’Expression, in LIBERTÉ D'EXPRESSION AUX ÉTATS-UNIS ET EN EUROPE (Élisabeth Zoller, Ed.) Paris: Dalloz, 2008.

Constitutional Drafting and Individual Rights: The Example of Gender Equality in DESIGNING FEDERALISM IN BURMA (David C. Williams and Lian H. Sakhong, Eds. ). Chiang Mai, Thailand: UNLD Press, 2005.

Constitutional Drafting and Individual Rights: The Example of Religious Freedom in DESIGNING FEDERALISM IN BURMA (David C. Williams and Lian H. Sakhong, Eds. ). Chiang Mai, Thailand: UNLD Press, 2005.