BACKGROUND

Richard Albert is an Assistant Professor at Boston College Law School, where he specializes in constitutional law, democratic theory and comparative constitutional law.

He has been a law professor since 2009. In 2010, he received the Hessel Yntema Prize, which is given annually to a scholar under the age of 40 to recognize "the most outstanding article" on comparative law. 

Professor Albert studied political science as an undergraduate student at Yale, and later earned graduate degrees from Oxford and Harvard.

At Yale Law School, Professor Albert served as Senior Editor of the Yale Law Journal, Yale Journal on Regulation and the Yale Law & Policy Review, and as Editor of the Yale Human Rights & Development Law Journal and the Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities. 

Prior to joining the faculty at Boston College Law School, Professor Albert represented Fortune 500 companies as a corporate attorney at the international law firm of Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP and served as a clerk to the Chief Justice of the Canadian Supreme Court.

Professor Albert is a Senior Research Fellow at the Canadian Council for Democracy and a Distinguished Academic Associate at the Centre for Law and Religion at Cardiff Law School in the United Kingdom.  He also volunteers for several charities and not-for-profit organizations, including the Special Olympics, YMCA-YWCA, Black Achievers Program, and the League of Women Voters.

To learn more about Richard Albert and to download his popular and scholarly writing, please visit his personal website.

EDUCATION

B.A., J.D. Yale University
B.C.L., Oxford University
LL.M., Harvard University

COURSES 

Fall 2011: Constitutional Law II

Fall 2011: Constitutional Politics

Spring 2012: Constitutional Law I

PUBLICATIONS

"The Constitutional Politics of Presidential Succession." Hofstra Law Review 39, no.3 (2011): 497-576.

"Constitutional Handcuffs." Arizona State Law Journal 42 (Fall 2010): 663-715.

Review of Secularism, Religion and Multicultural Citizenship, edited by Geoffrey Brahm Levey and Tariq Modood. Journal of Church and State 52 (Winter 2010): 158-160.

"Presidential Values in Parliamentary Democracies." International Journal of Constitutional Law: I-CON  8 (2010): 207-236.

Review of Constitutional Rights, Moral Controversy, and the Supreme Court, by Michael J. Perry. Journal of Church and State 51 (Autumn 2009): 710-712

"The Fusion of Presidentialism and Parliamentarianism." American Journal of Comparative Law 57 (Summer 2009):  531-577.

"Nonconstitutional Amendments." Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence  22 (2009): 5-47.

"Counterconstitutionalism." Dalhousie Law Journal 31 (2008): 1-54.

"Advisory Review: The Reincarnation of the Notwithstanding Clause." Alberta Law Review 45 (2007/2008): 1037-1069.

"The Constitutional Imbalance." New Mexico Law Review 37 (2007): 1-38.

"Religion in the New Republic." Lousiana Law Review 67 (2006): 1-54.

"The Evolving Vice Presidency." Temple Law Review 78 (2005): 811-896.

"American Separationism and Liberal Democracy." Marquette Law Review 88 (2005): 867-925.

"Popular Will and the Establishment Clause." Memphis Law Review 35 (2005): 199-253.

"Beyond the Conventional Establishment Clause Narrative." Seattle Law Review 28 (2005): 329-378.

"Protest, Proportionality, and the Politics of Privacy." Loyola of Los Angeles International and Comparative Law Review 27 (2005): 1-62.