Richard Albert
Affiliated Faculty
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 constitutional reform and democratic constitutionalism, including Constitutional Amendments: Making, Breaking, and Changing Constitutions (Oxford University Press), The Limits and Legitimacy of Referendums (Oxford University Press), and Amending America’s Unwritten Constitution (Cambridge University Press).
He is the founding director of the International Forum on the Future of Constitutionalism, convenor of the Global Summit on Constitutionalism, and the former president of the International Society of Public Law. He is currently the only non-Jamaican serving on the 15-person Constitutional Reform Committee appointed by the Prime Minister of Jamaica to advise on enacting a new republican constitution for the country. Prior to joining the academy, he served as an advisor to the Chief Justice of Canada.
He has held the Canadian Bicentennial Visiting Professorship at Yale University, twice been appointed Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Toronto, and held the inaugural Allan Rock Visiting Professorship at the University of Ottawa. He has also been appointed to visiting professorships at Université Paris Panthéon-Assas in France, Externado University of Colombia, Fundação Getulio Vargas FGV SP in Brazil, Maharashtra National Law University Mumbai in India, Reichman University in Israel, Universidad de Especialidades Espíritu Santo in Ecuador, and Airlangga University in Indonesia.
Richard Albert holds law and political science degrees from Yale, Oxford, and Harvard.
