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 (Fourth Edition, 2006). He is the coauthor, with Hetzel and Libonati, of Legislative Law and Statutory Interpretation: Cases and Materials (Third Edition, 2001). 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),"The
State Constitutions of the Founding Decade: Pennsylvania's Radical 1776
Constitution and Its Influence on American Constitutionalism" (Temple Law School),
and "In the Glare of the Supreme Court: Continuing Methodology and
Legitimacy Problems in Independent State Constitutional Rights
Adjudication" (Notre Dame Law Review).
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