Richard Albert (law professor)

Richard Albert is a Canadian-born constitutional law professor at Boston College Law School.^[1] He specializes in how countries amend their constitution. He is an occasional contributor to The Huffington Post^[2] and Cognoscenti.^[3]

Life and career

Albert received his B.A. and J.D. from Yale University, his B.C.L. from Oxford University, and his L.L.M. from Harvard University.^[4]

Prior to his appointment as Assistant Professor at Boston College Law School in 2009, Albert was a law clerk to the Chief Justice of Canada, the Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin.^[5] He then worked as a corporate litigator at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP.^[6]

Albert is a founding editor of I-CONnect,^[7] the blog of the International Journal of Constitutional Law, an elected member of the Executive Committee of the American Society of Comparative Law,^[8] an elected member of the International Academy of Comparative Law,^[9] and he sits on the Governing Council of the International Society of Public Law.^[10] Albert is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Canadian Council for Democracy, a Distinguished Academic Associate at the Centre for Law and Religion at Cardiff Law School in the United Kingdom,^[11] and Chair of the Younger Comparativists Committee in the American Society of Comparative Law.^[12]

References

External links

• Official Faculty Profile at Boston College Law School
• Personal Website