Misplaced Pages

Richard Albert is a Canadian legal scholar who serves as the William Stamps Farish Professor in Law, Professor of Government, and Director of Constitutional Studies at the University of Texas School of Law in Austin, Texas. He is also the only non-Jamaican member of the Constitutional Reform Committee, which is advising the Jamaican government on how to revise their constitution. He also serves as co-president of the International Society of Public Law.

Early life and education

Albert was born in Quebec to a Trinidadian father and a Haitian mother. He received his B.A. and J.D. degrees from Yale University, his B.C.L. from the University of Oxford, and his LL.M. from Harvard University. He clerked for Beverley McLachlin, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.

Controversy

In 2023, local Christians in the area advocated for the removal of Albert from the Constitutional Reform Committee saying "he has a distinct pro-LGBT and pro-abortion bias".

Publications

• Constitutional Amendments: Making, Breaking, and Changing Constitutions. Oxford University Press. 2019. ISBN 9780190640491.
• The Law and Legitimacy of Imposed Constitutions. Routledge. 2020. ISBN 9780367519926.
• Richard Albert; Yaniv Roznai, eds. (2020). Constitutionalism Under Extreme Conditions. Springer International Publishing. ISBN 9783030490003.

References

1. Zeder, Jeri (2016). "Richard Albert's Worldwide Quest". Boston College Law School Magazine. Retrieved 2024-04-12.
2. "Richard Albert". University of Ottawa. Retrieved 2024-04-12.
3. "Calls for Albert to be pulled from constitutional review body". The Gleaner. April 10, 2023. Retrieved 12 April 2024.

This Canadian biographical article relating to law is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e

• Living people
• University of Texas School of Law faculty
• 21st-century Canadian lawyers
• Canadian emigrants to the United States
• Yale University alumni
• Alumni of the University of Oxford
• Harvard Law School alumni
• Canadian scholars of constitutional law
• 1977 births
• Canadian legal professional stubs