Richard Albert is the William Stamps Farish Professor in Law, Professor of Government, and Director of Constitutional Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He has published 30 books on constitutionalism and democracy, including Constitutional Amendments: Making, Breaking, and Changing Constitutions (Oxford University Press 2019).
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 Co-President of the International Society of Public Law and the Founding Director of the International Forum on the Future of Constitutionalism. 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 Bahasa, Chinese, French, Hungarian, Persian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. He holds law and political science degrees from Yale, Oxford and Harvard, and served as a law clerk to the Chief Justice of Canada.
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 Co-President of the International Society of Public Law and the Founding Director of the International Forum on the Future of Constitutionalism. 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 Bahasa, Chinese, French, Hungarian, Persian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. He holds law and political science degrees from Yale, Oxford and Harvard, and served as a law clerk to the Chief Justice of Canada.