Lecture II

We are pleased to announce the Public Series I Lecture II in collaboration with the Center for Constitutional Democracy at Indiana University Maurer School of Law and International IDEA. This coming Saturday, Prof. David Williams will speak on the current Constitutional Development in Myanmar.

Prof. Williams is a popular lecturer on Native American people and on the Second Amendment. Winner of the Wallace Teaching Award and the Leonard D. From Public Interest Faculty Award, Williams teaches constitutional law and Native American law. Williams has taught at the University of Paris and lectured around the world.

A noted constitutional law scholar, Williams has written widely on constitutional design,
Native American law, the constitutional treatment of difference, and the relationship between constitutionalism and political violence.

He is the author of The Mythic Meanings of the Second Amendment: Taming Political Violence in a Constitutional Republic (Yale University Press, 2003). He is also co-editor and primary author of Designing Federalism in Burma (UNLD Press 2005), which is widely read in the Burma democracy movement.

As Executive Director of the Center for Constitutional Democracy, he consults with a number of reform movements abroad. He advises many elements of the Burma democracy movement on the constitutional future of that country.