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Richard Albert (professor)
Richard Albert is a Canadian legal scholar who serves as the William Stamps Farish III, William Stamps Farish Professor in Law, Professor of Government, and Director of Constitutional Studies at the University of Texas School of Law in Austin, Texas. He is also the only non-Jamaican member of the Constitutional Reform Committee, which is advising the Jamaican government on how to revise Constitution of Jamaica, their constitution. He also serves as co-president of the International Society of Public Law. Early life and education Albert was born in Quebec to a Trinidadian father and a Haitian mother. He received his Bachelor of Arts, B.A. and Juris Doctor, J.D. degrees from Yale University, his Bachelor of Civil Law, B.C.L. from the University of Oxford, and his Master of Laws, LL.M. from Harvard University. He clerked for Beverley McLachlin, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. Controversy In 2023, local Christians in the area advocated for the removal of Albert from the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Professor
Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an academic rank at universities and other post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries. Literally, ''professor'' derives from Latin as a 'person who professes'. Professors are usually experts in their field and teachers of the highest rank. In most systems of academic ranks, "professor" as an unqualified title refers only to the most senior academic position, sometimes informally known as "full professor". In some countries and institutions, the word ''professor'' is also used in titles of lower ranks such as associate professor and assistant professor; this is particularly the case in the United States, where the unqualified word is also used colloquially to refer to associate and assistant professors as well, and often to instructors or lecturers. Professors often conduct original research and commonly teach undergraduate, postgraduate, or professional courses in their fields of expertise. In universities ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
