Prof. Robert F. Williams
Prof. Robert F. Williams . Columbia University Law School, LL.M; New York University Law School, LL.M; University of Florida, J.D. with honors (where he was the Executive Editor of the University of Florida Law Review and a member of the Order of the Coif); Florida State University, B.A. cum laude. Prof. Williams is a Distinguished University Professor of Law at Rutgers Law School - Camden, one of the few faculty members to hold that rank statewide. He is the author of LEGISLATIVE LAW AND PROCESS, the most widely used casebook/treatise on STATE CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, as well as two other books and 50 book chapters and law review articles. He teaches civil procedure, legislation, and state constitutional law. Among his important recent articles are Shedding Tiers "Above and Beyond the Federal Floor: Loving State Constitutional Equality Rights to Death in Louisiana, 63 LA. L. REV. 917 (2003); The Brennan Lecture: Interpreting State Constitutions as Unique Legal Documents, 27 OKLA. CITY U. L. REV. 189 (2002); and Tort Reform and State Constitutional Law, 32 RUTGERS L.J. 897 (2001). He also has published articles in the ANNALS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE, TEXAS LAW REVIEW, JOURNAL OF LEGAL STUDIES, HASTINGS CONSTITUTIONAL LAW QUARTERLY, GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIV. LAW REVIEW, and WILLIAM & MARY LAW REVIEW.