Professor Richard Albert of Boston College has accepted an offer to join Texas Law in January 2018. Prof. Albert will be teaching a 1L Constitutional Law section, among other courses.
His scholarship focuses on constitutional amendment in comparative, doctrinal, historical and theoretical perspectives. He is currently completing a book on constitutional amendment, to be published by Oxford University Press. He is also co-editor of the forthcoming collections: The Foundations and Traditions of Constitutional Amendment, An Unconstitutional Constitution? Unamendability in Constitutional Democracies, Canada in the World: Comparative Perspectives on the Canadian Constitution, and the Oxford Handbook of the Constitutions of the Caribbean.