BACKGROUND

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

A graduate of 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. Professor Albert studied political science as an undergraduate student at Yale, where he competed on the football and track & field teams while financing his tuition as a dishwasher for Yale University Dining Services and as a tutor in the Yale College Tutoring Program. Professor Albert has also earned graduate degrees in law from Oxford and Harvard.

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, hosted a talk-radio show on current affairs in England, clerked for the Chief Justice of the Canadian Supreme Court, and advised elected officials and candidates across the United States and Canada.

Professor Albert volunteers for several charities and not-for-profit organizations, including the Special Olympics, YMCA-YWCA, and the Black Achievers Program.

EDUCATION

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

COURSES 

Fall 2009: Law of Democracy 
Spring 2010: Constitutional Law I

PUBLICATIONS

"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.