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. His work focuses on constitutional reform and democratic constitutionalism. Prior to joining the academy, he served as an advisor to the chief justice of Canada.
Albert is the founding director of the International Forum on the Future of Constitutionalism, convenor of the Global Summit on Constitutionalism, and former president of the International Society of Public Law. He currently serves on the fifteen-person Constitutional Reform Committee appointed by the prime minister of Jamaica to advise on the enactment of a new republican constitution for the country. He has held visiting appointments at universities across North America, Europe, Asia, and South America, including Yale, the University of Toronto, Université Paris Panthéon-Assas, and Airlangga University.
Education
JD, Yale University
LLM, Harvard University
BCL, University of Oxford
BA, Yale University
Publications
Constitutional Amendments: Making, Breaking, and Changing Constitutions
The Limits and Legitimacy of Referendums
Amending America’s Unwritten Constitution
