Richard Albert holds the Hines H. Baker and Thelma Kelley Baker Chair in Law at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is also Professor of Government and Director of Constitutional Studies. He has published over 30 books on constitutionalism and democracy, including Constitutional Amendments: Making, Breaking, and Changing Constitutions (Oxford University Press 2019). He is currently the only non-Jamaican serving on the country's Constitutional Reform Committee.
His recent papers include Multi-Textual Constitutions, published in the Virginia Law Review, and The World's Most Difficult Constitution to Amend?, published in the California Law Review, and Decolonial Constitutionalism, published in the Chicago Journal of International Law.
Formerly the Canadian Bicentennial Visiting Professor at Yale University and the inaugural Allan Rock Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Ottawa, he has twice been appointed Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Toronto. He has also served as a Visiting Professor of Law at FGV Direito SP in Brazil, Externado University of Colombia, Universidad de Especialidades Espiritu Santo in Ecuador, Université Paris Panthéon-Assas in France, Maharashtra National Law University Mumbai in India, Airlangga University in Indonesia, and the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya in Israel.
Richard Albert is the Founding Director of the International Forum on the Future of Constitutionalism. He formerly served as Co-President of the International Society of Public Law. He teaches courses in constitutional law, researches and writes about making and amending constitutions, and convenes international conferences in public law. His publications have been translated into Arabic, Chinese, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.
Richard Albert earned law and political science degrees from Yale, Oxford and Harvard, and served as a law clerk to the Chief Justice of Canada.
His recent papers include Multi-Textual Constitutions, published in the Virginia Law Review, and The World's Most Difficult Constitution to Amend?, published in the California Law Review, and Decolonial Constitutionalism, published in the Chicago Journal of International Law.
Formerly the Canadian Bicentennial Visiting Professor at Yale University and the inaugural Allan Rock Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Ottawa, he has twice been appointed Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Toronto. He has also served as a Visiting Professor of Law at FGV Direito SP in Brazil, Externado University of Colombia, Universidad de Especialidades Espiritu Santo in Ecuador, Université Paris Panthéon-Assas in France, Maharashtra National Law University Mumbai in India, Airlangga University in Indonesia, and the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya in Israel.
Richard Albert is the Founding Director of the International Forum on the Future of Constitutionalism. He formerly served as Co-President of the International Society of Public Law. He teaches courses in constitutional law, researches and writes about making and amending constitutions, and convenes international conferences in public law. His publications have been translated into Arabic, Chinese, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.
Richard Albert earned law and political science degrees from Yale, Oxford and Harvard, and served as a law clerk to the Chief Justice of Canada.