Distinguished Professor of Law. Professor Williams earned his B.A. cum laude in 1967 at Florida State University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi. He earned his J.D. with honors in 1969 at the University of Florida School of Law, where he was executive editor of the law review and a member of the Order of the Coif. Professor Williams also earned his LL.M. in 1971 at New York University School of Law, where he was a Ford Foundation Urban Law Fellow. In addition, he has been a Chamberlain Fellow at Columbia University Law School, where he earned an LL.M. in 1980. He is admitted to the Bars of Florida and New Jersey. He has been the legislative advocacy director and executive director of Florida Legal Services, Inc.; an International Legal Center Fellow in Kabul, Afghanistan; and a reporter for the Florida Law Revision Council`s Landlord-Tenant Law Project. In addition, he served as a legislative assistant to Florida Senator D. Robert Graham; a staff attorney with Legal Services of Greater Miami, Inc.; and a law clerk to Chief Judge T. Frank Hobson of the Florida Second District Court of Appeals. His books include The New Jersey State Constitution: A Reference Guide (revised 1997) and State Constitutional Law, Cases, and Materials (third edition, 1999). He is the coauthor, with Hetzel and Libonati, of Legislative Law and Process: Cases and Materials (third edition, 1999). Among his articles are "Statutes as Sources of Law beyond Their Terms in Common Law Cases" (George Washington Law Review), "State Constitutional Law Processes" (William and Mary Law Review), "In the Supreme Court`s Shadow: Legitimacy of State Rejection of Supreme Court Reasoning and Result" (South Carolina Law Review), "Equality Guarantees in State Constitutional Law"(Texas Law Review), and "The State Constitutions of the Founding Decade: Pennsylvania`s Radical 1776 Constitution and Its Influence on American Constitutionalism" (Temple Law Review).