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​Articles

New: The Case for Presidential Illegality in Constitutional Amendment (forthcoming 2019)
1. Constitutional Amendment and Dismemberment, 43 Yale Journal of International Law 1 (2018)
2. The Formalist Resistance to Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendments, 70 Hastings Law Journal 639 (2019) (co-authored with Malkhaz Nakashidze and Tarik Olcay)
3. The Expressive Function of Constitutional Amendment Rules, ​
​59 McGill Law Journal 225 (2013)
4. Amending Constitutional Amendment Rules, 13 International Journal of Constitutional Law 655 (2015) 
5. Constitutional Amendment by Constitutional Desuetude,
​62 American Journal of Comparative Law 641  (2014) 
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6. The Structure of Constitutional Amendment Rules, 49 Wake Forest Law Review 913 (2014)
7. Nonconstitutional Amendments, ​22 Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 5 (2009)
8. Temporal Limitations in Constitutional Amendment, 21 Review of Constitutional Studies 37 (2016)
9. Constitutional Disuse or Desuetude: The Case of Article V, 94 Boston University Law Review 1029 (2014)
10. The Difficulty of Constitutional Amendment in Canada, 39 Alberta Law Review 85 (2015)
11. Amendment and Revision in the Unmaking of Constitutions, Edward Elgar Research Handbook on Comparative Constitution-Making (David Landau & Hanna Lerner eds., forthcoming 2018)
12. Four Unconstitutional Constitutions and their Democratic Foundations, 50 Cornell International Law Journal 169 (2017)
13. ​The Conventions of Constitutional Amendment in Canada, 53 Osgoode Hall Law Journal 399 (2016)  
14. How a Court Becomes Supreme, 77 Maryland Law Review (forthcoming 2018)
15. ​Constitutional Handcuffs,
​42 Arizona State Law Journal 663 (2010)
16. The Fusion of Presidentialism and Parliamentarism, 57 American Journal of Comparative Law 531 (2009) 
17. Constitutional Reform in the Caribbean, 16 Election Law Journal 263 (2017)
18. Presidential Values in Parliamentary Democracies, 
​8 International Journal of Constitutional Law 207 (2010) 
19. Quasi-Constitutional Amendments, 65 Buffalo Law Review 739 (2017)
20. American Exceptionalism in Constitutional Amendment, 69 Arkansas Law Review 217 (2016) (symposium issue)
21. Constitutional Amendment by Stealth,  60 McGill Law Journal 673 (2015)
22. The Unamendable Core of the United States Constitution, Comparative Perspectives on the Fundamental Freedom of Expression (Andras Koltay ed., 2015) ​
23. Constructive Unamendability in Canada and the United States, 67 Supreme Court Law Review 181 (2014) 
24. The Theory and Doctrine of Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendment in Canada, 41 Queen's Law Journal 153 (2015)
25. Constitutional Limits to European Integration, 14 International Journal of Constitutional Law 297 (2016) (Review)
26. Counterconstitutionalism,
​33 Dalhousie Law Journal 1 (2008)
27. The Progressive Era of Constitutional Amendment, Eficiência e Ética na Administração Pública (Luiz Alberto Blanchet et al. eds., 2015)
28. Constitutional Reform in Brazil: Lessons from Albania?, 4 Revista de Investigações Constitucionais 11 (2017) (co-authored with Juliano Zaiden Benvindo, Klodian Rado and Fabian Zhilla)
29. Religion, Secularism and Limitations on Constitutional Amendment, Edward Elgar Research Handbook on Law and Religion (Rex Ahdar ed., forthcoming 2018) (co-authored with Yaniv Roznai)
30. Discretionary Referenda in Constitutional Amendment, working draft, BC Legal Studies Research Paper No. 460
31. Single-Subject Constitutional Amendments, working draft, BC Legal Studies Research Paper No. 466
32. Judging Constitutional Conventions, International Journal of Constitutional Law (forthcoming 2018) (co-authored with Farrah Ahmed and Adam Perry)
33. Constitutions Imposed with Consent?, The Law and Legitimacy of Imposed Constitutions (Richard Albert, Xenophon Contiades and Alkmene Fotiadou eds., forthcoming 2018)
34. The Desuetude of the Notwithstanding Clause--And How to Revive It, Policy Change, Courts, and the Canadian Constitution (Emmett Macfarlane ed., forthcoming 2018)
35. How Unwritten Constitutional Norms Change Written Constitutions, 38 Dublin University Law Journal 387 (2015)
36. The Democratic Resilience of the Canadian Constitution, Constitutional Democracies in Crisis? (Mark Graber, Sanford Levinson & Mark Tushnet eds., forthcoming 2018) (co-authored with Michael Pal)
37. The Separation of Higher Powers, 65 Southern Methodist University Law Review 3 (2012)
38. Religion-State Relations in the United States and Germany, 
​56 Journal of Church and State (2014) (Review)
39. Church and State in Western Society, 54 Journal of Church and State 652 (2012) (Review) 
40. The Constitutional Politics of the Establishment Clause,
​87 Chicago-Kent Law Review 867 (2012) (symposium issue)
41. The Evolving Vice Presidency, 78 Temple Law Review 811 (2005)
42. The Constitutional Politics of Presidential Succession, 39 Hofstra Law Review 497 (2011)   
43. The Next Constitutional Revolution, 88 University of Detroit Mercy Law Review 707 (2011) (symposium issue)
44. Constitutional Rights, Moral Controversy, and the Supreme Court, 51 Journal of Church and State 710 (2009) (Review)
45. Advisory Review, 45 Alberta Law Review 1037 (2008) 
46. Secularism, Religion and Multicultural Citizenship, 52 Journal of Church and State 158 (2010) (Review)
47. Religion in the New Republic,
​67 Louisiana Law Review 1 (2006)
48. The Constitutional Imbalance, 37 New Mexico Law Review 1 (2007)
49. American Separationism and Liberal Democracy, 88 Marquette Law Review 867 (2005)
50. Popular Will and the Establishment Clause,
​35 Memphis Law Review 199 (2005)
51. Beyond the Conventional Establishment Clause Narrative,
​28 Seattle University Law Review 329 (2005)
52. Protest, Proportionality, and the Politics of Privacy,
​27 Loyola of Los Angeles International and Comparative Law Review 1 (2005)
53. The Cult of Constitutionalism, 39 Florida State University Law Review 373 (2012)
54. The Expositor and Guardian of Our Constitutional Values, Canada’s Chief Justice: Beverley McLachlin’s Legacy of Law and Leadership (Marcus Moore & Daniel Jutras eds., 2019)
  • Richard Albert
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    • Annual Fundraiser for Haitian Children
  • Recommended Readings
  • Webinars
    • Courses
      • Advanced Research Seminar in Constitutional Change
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      • 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
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