Richard Albert
Biographic Data
| ID | 1404772 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Albert |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Albert |
| SIGNATURE | ALBERT R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boston College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9485-0828 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
La teoría y la práctica del desmembramiento constitucional
En este ensayo, preparado para un número especial de Díkaion sobre mi libro Reformas constitucionales. Elaborar, romper y cambiar constituciones, ofrezco una ilustración de la teoría del desmembramiento constitucional con referencia al proceso de reforma constitucional en Jamaica, donde ejerzo un cargo gubernamental como miembro del Comité de Reforma Constitucional, compuesto por 15 integrantes. Explico que las constituciones están mejor diseñada…
Le paysage national: Approche anthropologique et historique de l'imaginaire du paysage hongrois.A nemzeti táj : A magyar táj képzetének történeti-antropológiai vizsgálata
Thèse dirigée par Marie-Vic Ozouf-Marignier (EHESS), soutenue devant un jury composé de Gabor Czoch (Université ELTE de Budapest), Paul Gradvohl (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), Peter Granasztoi (Musée d’Ethnographie de Budapest), Maitane Ostolaza (Université de Perpignan) et Nicolas Verdier (EHESS).Résumé : L’objet de notre thèse d’anthropologie historique est la représentation paysagère de la nation. À la fois emblématique, schématique e…
A Written Constitution for Quebec?
No province in Canada has codified a written constitution, and whether Quebec should be the first remains a controversial question. A Written Constitution for Quebec? enters into the debate, drawing a roadmap through the legal, political, and constitutional terrain of the issue. \n \nLeading scholars each take their own position in the debate, examining the issue from various sides and exploring the forms and limits of a codified Quebec constitut…
The Oxford Handbook of Caribbean Constitutions
The rise of comparative constitutional studies has made our world much smaller and more accessible than ever before. We are in an era of unprecedented interest in understanding and learning from others as individuals and institutions invest enormous amounts of time and resources into facilitating cross-national exchange and education in constitutional law. Yet some parts of the globe are still waiting to be discovered. With few exceptions, the Ca…
Oxford Handbook of Caribbean Constitutions
The Oxford Handbook of Caribbean Constitutions offers a detailed and analytical view of the constitutions of the Caribbean region, examining the constitutional development of its diverse countries. The Handbook explains the features of the region's constitutions and examines themes emerging from the Caribbean's experience with constitutional interpretation and reform.0Part I, 'Caribbean Constitutions in the World', highlights what is distinctive …
Quasi-Constitutionality and Constitutional Statutes: Forms, Functions, Applications
The Spanish and the UK constitutional orders are asymmetrical as to the level of autonomy that the various regional governments enjoy but also as to the kind of relationship each and every one of them develops with the metropolitan State. The paper provides for a comparative analysis of the role that the (sub-)constitutional statutes play in Spain and the UK in reflecting political asymmetries and creating constitutional ones. It argues that the …
The Canadian Constitution in Transition
Reducing the severity of alcohol withdrawal with oral baclofen: A randomized controlled trial
Daniel B. Heppeab*, Angela Kenistonbc, Tiffany Bendelowc, Lauren McBethc, Stephen Waringd, Jeffrey Lyone & Richard K. Albertba Department of Medicine, Denver Veterans Administration Medical Center, Denver, CO, USA; b Department of Medicine, University of Colorado, Aurora, CO, USA; c Department of Medicine, Denver Health and Hospital Authority, Denver, CO, USA; d Essentia Institute of Rural Health, Duluth, MN, USA; e Department of Hospital Medicin…
Introduction - A moment to mark: The Brazilian Constitution turns 30
An introduction from the Guest Editors to the Thematic Dossier " The 30th Anniversary of the 1988 Brazilian Constitution" of the Journal of Constitutional Research ( Revista de Investigações Constitucionais ), vol. 5, n. 3, 2018
Constitutional Reform in Brazil: Lessons from Albania
Corruption is a fact of public life in Brazil. Since the country’s transition to democracy, corruption has been a challenge for each presidential administration. The Brazilian judiciary has not escaped the corrupting influences in the region. One country whose challenges with judicial corruption are arguably even greater than Brazil’s is Albania, a country for which we were appointed to act as Consultants to the Special Parliamentary Committee on…
The Expressive Function of Constitutional Amendment Rules
The current scholarly focus on informal constitutional amendment has obscured the continuing relevance of formal amendment rules. In this article, I return our attention to formal amendment in order to show that formal amendment rules—not formal amendments but formal amendment rules themselves—perform an underappreciated function: to express constitutional values. Drawing from national constitutions, in particular the Canadian, South African, Ger…
The Modern Study of Comparative Constitutionalism
Node-independent elementary signaling modes: A measure of redundancy in Boolean signaling transduction networks
The redundancy of a system denotes the amount of duplicate components or mechanisms in it. For a network, especially one in which mass or information is being transferred from an origin to a destination, redundancy is related to the robustness of the system. Existing network measures of redundancy rely on local connectivity (e.g. clustering coefficients) or the existence of multiple paths. As in many systems there are functional dependencies betw…
The expressive function of constitutional amendment rules
The progressive era of constitutional amendment
In this Essay I explore the impetus for the Seventeenth Amendment, which was in large measure driven by an effort to curb corruption in senatorial elections. I begin by exploring the difficulty of formal amendment in the United States. I explain the rules of formal amendment and I review briefly the empirical literature suggesting that the United States Constitution is one of the world’s most difficult to amend, if not the most difficult. Then, I…
Religion-State Relations in the United States and Germany: The Quest for Neutrality
The relationship between church and state in the United States and Germany has been the subject of important scholarly treatments from law, history, theology, sociology, and political science. The most clarifying contributions have often combined two or more of these perspectives to illuminate a discrete question on the boundary separating religion from government. In her new book on Religion-State Relations in the United States and Germany: The …
Constitutional Amendment by Constitutional Desuetude
Scholars have shown that written constitutions may be informally amended in various ways, for instance by judicial interpretation, statute, or executive action. But scholars have yet to fully appreciate that written constitutions may also be informally amended by desuetude. Informal amendment by constitutional desuetude occurs when a constitutional provision loses its binding force upon political actors as a result of its conscious sustained nonu…
Church and State in Western Society
Edward Eberle's work on the constitutional traditions of Germany and the United States is well known within the community of comparative constitutional law scholars. His scholarship has illuminated the competing approaches in Germany and the United States to free speech and hate speech, equality and liberty, public discourse and privacy, and dignity and religion. In Church and State in Western Society, his newest contribution to comparative const…
Error and attack tolerance of complex networks
Many complex systems display a surprising degree of tolerance against errors.For example, relatively simple organisms grow, persist and reproduce despite drastic pharmaceutical or environmental interventions, an error tolerance attributed to the robustness of the underlying metabolic network [1].Complex communication networks [2] display a surprising degree of robustness: while key components regularly malfunction, local failures rarely lead to t…
Secularism, Religion and Multicultural Citizenship
Liberal democracy is often construed as setting in opposition two dimensions of life: public and private. But that conventional interpretation fails to appreciate that the promise of liberal democracy is to make public values private ones, and to give personal convictions public credence. That is the great challenge of liberal democracy—to cultivate a political culture in which personal convictions take root within the public values that bind cit…
Constitutional Rights, Moral Controversy, and the Supreme Court
Journal Article Constitutional Rights, Moral Controversy, and the Supreme Court Get access Constitutional Rights, Moral Controversy, and the Supreme Court. By Michael J. Perry. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. 264pp. $75.00. Richard Albert Richard Albert Boston College Law SchoolBoston, Massachusetts [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Church and State, Volume 51, Is…
The Fusion of Presidentialism and Parliamentarism
Parliamentarism and presidentialism are commonly, and correctly, set in opposition as distinguishable systems of governance that exhibit distinguishable structural features. Yet the structural differences between them do not necessarily give rise to functional differences. Quite the contrary, the very structural features that allow us to distinguish between presidentialism and parliamentarism often conceal their functional similarities. In this A…
Near linear time algorithm to detect community structures in large-scale networks
Community detection and analysis is an important methodology for understanding the organization of various real-world networks and has applications in problems as diverse as consensus formation in social communities or the identification of functional modules in biochemical networks. Currently used algorithms that identify the community structures in large-scale real-world networks require a priori information such as the number and sizes of comm…
Evaluation of the Solitary Pulmonary Nodule
Two physicians explain the indications for the use of several diagnostic tools for the evaluation of a solitary pulmonary nodule. Virtual Mentor is a monthly bioethics journal published by the American Medical Association
Statistical mechanics of complex networks
Complex networks describe a wide range of systems in nature and society. Frequently cited examples include the cell, a network of chemicals linked by chemical reactions, and the Internet, a network of routers and computers connected by physical links. While traditionally these systems have been modeled as random graphs, it is increasingly recognized that the topology and evolution of real networks are governed by robust organizing principles. Thi…
The Fusion of Presidentialism and Parliamentarism
Parliamentarism and presidentialism are commonly, and correctly, set in opposition as distinguishable systems of governance that exhibit distinguishable structural features. Yet the structural differences between them do not necessarily give rise to functional differences. Quite the contrary, the very structural features that allow us to distinguish between presidentialism and parliamentarism often conceal their functional similarities. In this A…
Constitutional Amendment by Constitutional Desuetude
Scholars have shown that written constitutions may be informally amended in various ways, for instance by judicial interpretation, statute, or executive action. But scholars have yet to fully appreciate that written constitutions may also be informally amended by desuetude. Informal amendment by constitutional desuetude occurs when a constitutional provision loses its binding force upon political actors as a result of its conscious sustained nonu…
Diameter of the World-Wide Web
Emergence of Scaling in Random Networks
Systems as diverse as genetic networks or the World Wide Web are best described as networks with complex topology. A common property of many large networks is that the vertex connectivities follow a scale-free power-law distribution. This feature was found to be a consequence of two generic mechanisms: (i) networks expand continuously by the addition of new vertices, and (ii) new vertices attach preferentially to sites that are already well conne…
Error and attack tolerance of complex networks
Statistical mechanics of complex networks
Complex networks describe a wide range of systems in nature and society. Frequently cited examples include the cell, a network of chemicals linked by chemical reactions, and the Internet, a network of routers and computers connected by physical links. While traditionally these systems have been modeled as random graphs, it is increasingly recognized that the topology and evolution of real networks are governed by robust organizing principles. Thi…
Evaluation of the Solitary Pulmonary Nodule
Two physicians explain the indications for the use of several diagnostic tools for the evaluation of a solitary pulmonary nodule. Virtual Mentor is a monthly bioethics journal published by the American Medical Association
Near linear time algorithm to detect community structures in large-scale networks
Community detection and analysis is an important methodology for understanding the organization of various real-world networks and has applications in problems as diverse as consensus formation in social communities or the identification of functional modules in biochemical networks. Currently used algorithms that identify the community structures in large-scale real-world networks require a priori information such as the number and sizes of comm…
Constitutional Rights, Moral Controversy, and the Supreme Court
Journal Article Constitutional Rights, Moral Controversy, and the Supreme Court Get access Constitutional Rights, Moral Controversy, and the Supreme Court. By Michael J. Perry. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. 264pp. $75.00. Richard Albert Richard Albert Boston College Law SchoolBoston, Massachusetts [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Church and State, Volume 51, Is…
The Fusion of Presidentialism and Parliamentarism
Parliamentarism and presidentialism are commonly, and correctly, set in opposition as distinguishable systems of governance that exhibit distinguishable structural features. Yet the structural differences between them do not necessarily give rise to functional differences. Quite the contrary, the very structural features that allow us to distinguish between presidentialism and parliamentarism often conceal their functional similarities. In this A…
Secularism, Religion and Multicultural Citizenship
Liberal democracy is often construed as setting in opposition two dimensions of life: public and private. But that conventional interpretation fails to appreciate that the promise of liberal democracy is to make public values private ones, and to give personal convictions public credence. That is the great challenge of liberal democracy—to cultivate a political culture in which personal convictions take root within the public values that bind cit…
Error and attack tolerance of complex networks
Many complex systems display a surprising degree of tolerance against errors.For example, relatively simple organisms grow, persist and reproduce despite drastic pharmaceutical or environmental interventions, an error tolerance attributed to the robustness of the underlying metabolic network [1].Complex communication networks [2] display a surprising degree of robustness: while key components regularly malfunction, local failures rarely lead to t…
Church and State in Western Society
Edward Eberle's work on the constitutional traditions of Germany and the United States is well known within the community of comparative constitutional law scholars. His scholarship has illuminated the competing approaches in Germany and the United States to free speech and hate speech, equality and liberty, public discourse and privacy, and dignity and religion. In Church and State in Western Society, his newest contribution to comparative const…
Religion-State Relations in the United States and Germany: The Quest for Neutrality
The relationship between church and state in the United States and Germany has been the subject of important scholarly treatments from law, history, theology, sociology, and political science. The most clarifying contributions have often combined two or more of these perspectives to illuminate a discrete question on the boundary separating religion from government. In her new book on Religion-State Relations in the United States and Germany: The …
Constitutional Amendment by Constitutional Desuetude
Scholars have shown that written constitutions may be informally amended in various ways, for instance by judicial interpretation, statute, or executive action. But scholars have yet to fully appreciate that written constitutions may also be informally amended by desuetude. Informal amendment by constitutional desuetude occurs when a constitutional provision loses its binding force upon political actors as a result of its conscious sustained nonu…
The expressive function of constitutional amendment rules
The progressive era of constitutional amendment
In this Essay I explore the impetus for the Seventeenth Amendment, which was in large measure driven by an effort to curb corruption in senatorial elections. I begin by exploring the difficulty of formal amendment in the United States. I explain the rules of formal amendment and I review briefly the empirical literature suggesting that the United States Constitution is one of the world’s most difficult to amend, if not the most difficult. Then, I…
The Modern Study of Comparative Constitutionalism
Node-independent elementary signaling modes: A measure of redundancy in Boolean signaling transduction networks
The redundancy of a system denotes the amount of duplicate components or mechanisms in it. For a network, especially one in which mass or information is being transferred from an origin to a destination, redundancy is related to the robustness of the system. Existing network measures of redundancy rely on local connectivity (e.g. clustering coefficients) or the existence of multiple paths. As in many systems there are functional dependencies betw…
Constitutional Reform in Brazil: Lessons from Albania
Corruption is a fact of public life in Brazil. Since the country’s transition to democracy, corruption has been a challenge for each presidential administration. The Brazilian judiciary has not escaped the corrupting influences in the region. One country whose challenges with judicial corruption are arguably even greater than Brazil’s is Albania, a country for which we were appointed to act as Consultants to the Special Parliamentary Committee on…
The Expressive Function of Constitutional Amendment Rules
The current scholarly focus on informal constitutional amendment has obscured the continuing relevance of formal amendment rules. In this article, I return our attention to formal amendment in order to show that formal amendment rules—not formal amendments but formal amendment rules themselves—perform an underappreciated function: to express constitutional values. Drawing from national constitutions, in particular the Canadian, South African, Ger…
Reducing the severity of alcohol withdrawal with oral baclofen: A randomized controlled trial
Daniel B. Heppeab*, Angela Kenistonbc, Tiffany Bendelowc, Lauren McBethc, Stephen Waringd, Jeffrey Lyone & Richard K. Albertba Department of Medicine, Denver Veterans Administration Medical Center, Denver, CO, USA; b Department of Medicine, University of Colorado, Aurora, CO, USA; c Department of Medicine, Denver Health and Hospital Authority, Denver, CO, USA; d Essentia Institute of Rural Health, Duluth, MN, USA; e Department of Hospital Medicin…
Introduction - A moment to mark: The Brazilian Constitution turns 30
An introduction from the Guest Editors to the Thematic Dossier " The 30th Anniversary of the 1988 Brazilian Constitution" of the Journal of Constitutional Research ( Revista de Investigações Constitucionais ), vol. 5, n. 3, 2018
Quasi-Constitutionality and Constitutional Statutes: Forms, Functions, Applications
The Spanish and the UK constitutional orders are asymmetrical as to the level of autonomy that the various regional governments enjoy but also as to the kind of relationship each and every one of them develops with the metropolitan State. The paper provides for a comparative analysis of the role that the (sub-)constitutional statutes play in Spain and the UK in reflecting political asymmetries and creating constitutional ones. It argues that the …
The Canadian Constitution in Transition
The Oxford Handbook of Caribbean Constitutions
The rise of comparative constitutional studies has made our world much smaller and more accessible than ever before. We are in an era of unprecedented interest in understanding and learning from others as individuals and institutions invest enormous amounts of time and resources into facilitating cross-national exchange and education in constitutional law. Yet some parts of the globe are still waiting to be discovered. With few exceptions, the Ca…
Oxford Handbook of Caribbean Constitutions
The Oxford Handbook of Caribbean Constitutions offers a detailed and analytical view of the constitutions of the Caribbean region, examining the constitutional development of its diverse countries. The Handbook explains the features of the region's constitutions and examines themes emerging from the Caribbean's experience with constitutional interpretation and reform.0Part I, 'Caribbean Constitutions in the World', highlights what is distinctive …
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