Jennifer Widner is Professor of Politics and International Affairs and Director of the Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace & Justice. Professor Widner holds a degree in international management and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale University. Before joining the Princeton faculty in 2004-5, she taught at Harvard and the University of Michigan.
Her research focuses on problems of democratization, law, and development, with special attention to sub-Saharan Africa. Her most recent book is Building the Rule of Law (W. W. Norton), a study of courts and law in Africa and other developing country contexts. She has published articles on a variety of topics in Democratization, Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Development Studies, Current History, Daedalus, the American Journal of International Law, and other publications.

She is currently completing a global project on constitution writing and conflict resolution and launching a project on cross-cultural variation in standards of good faith and fair dealing.

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