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Research, writing, consulting on the rule of law, democracy,  and constitutionalism.

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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.
  • Richard Albert
  • Biography
  • Books
  • The Leaflet
  • Convenings
    • 2025 Global Summit
    • 2023 Global Summit
    • 2021 Global Summit
    • 3rd Graduate Conference on Constitutional Change
    • 2nd Graduate Conference on Constitutional Change
    • Courses
      • Advanced Seminar in Constitutional Reform
      • Advanced Research Seminar in Constitutional Change
      • Constitutional Amendment in Constitutional Democracies
      • Judging in Times of Crisis
      • The Future of Liberal Democracy
      • Modern Challenges in Constitutionalism
      • The State of Canada's Constitutional Democracy
      • The Theory and Design of Constitutional Change
    • Seminars
      • Constitutional Renewal in Chile
      • Amendment-Mania in Mexico
      • The Architecture of Constitutional Amendment
      • Constitutional Autocratization in Russia
      • Constitutional Reform in Kenya
      • Democracy in our Digital Age
      • Is the United States Constitution Broken?
      • Juristocracy in Brazil?
      • Reimagining Policing in America
      • Socialism and Constitutionalism
      • Substitution of the Constitution Doctrine in Colombia
    • Discussion
      • Doctoral Workshop on Constitutional Amendment
      • Global Colloquium in Constitutional Law
      • The Living Presidency
      • Supreme Disorder
    • Advice
      • How to Write a Book Proposal
      • How to Publish a Book in Constitutional Studies
      • The Law Faculty Hiring Process
      • Clerking at the Supreme Court of Canada
      • Publishing in Constitutional Law
      • Writing a Book Proposal
  • Best of Books
    • The Best of 2023
    • The Best of 2022
    • The Best of 2021
    • The Best of 2020
  • Philanthropy
    • Yvette Depestre Award
    • Frederick Albert Scholarship
    • Wilda and John Maase Prize in Canadian Studies
    • Jamie Cameron Bursary
    • Bloom-Greenfield Prize
    • John C. Major Scholarship
    • Annual Fundraiser for Haitian Children
  • RunnersWorld