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David Williams graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University, where he served on the Board of Editors for the Harvard Law Review.
A noted constitutional law scholar, Professor David C. Williams has written numerous articles in major journals throughout the country. He is a popular lecturer on Native American people and on the Second Amendment. Winner of the Wallace Teaching Award and the Leonard D. Fromm Public Interest Faculty Award, Williams teaches Constitutional Law and Native American Law.
In recent years, his research has focused on two aspects of constitutional law: the right of Native American tribes to self-government within the American constitutional system, and the alleged constitutional right of the people to keep and bear arms in order to make revolution against government. These two seemingly unrelated topics raise the common theme of examining the possibility of popular government outside the normal channels of state and federal elections, and more specifically the claimed right of an "organic" people to resist the encroachment of an "alien" government.
Through the Center for Constitutional Democracy in Plural Societies, Williams's research achieves true impact. In addition to theoretical exploration of the subject, his efforts to build constitutional democracy in countries such as Burma and Liberia, which have suffered ethnic, linguistic, and other divisions in recent years, are tangible.
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).
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