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Richard Anton Briffault
Columbia University School of Law
Expertise
- Campaign Finance Regulation
- Government Ethics
- Law of the Political Process
- Legislation
- State and Local Government Law
Jurisdictions Admitted to Practice
- New York
- New York State Office of Court Administration
- ID Number: 1236629
- U.S. District Court, Southern & Eastern District of New York
Professional Experience
- Joseph P. Chamberlain Professor of Legislation
- Columbia University School of Law
- Current
- - Vice Dean, 1997-2001, 2002-2005, 2011-2012 -- Joseph P. Chamberlain Professor of Legislation, 1997 to date -- Director, Legislative Drafting Research Fund, 1995 to date -- Professor of Law, 1990-1997 -- Associate Professor of Law, 1984-1989 -- Assistant Professor of Law, 1983-1984
- Fellow, Program in Law and Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
- Princeton University
- -
- Visiting Professor
- New York University School of Law
- -
- Visiting Scholar
- Harvard University
- -
- Assistant Counsel to Governor Hugh L. Carey
- State of New York
- -
- Associate
- Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison
- -
- Law Clerk to Honorable Shirley M. Hufstedler
- United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- -
Education
- Harvard Law School
- J.D. (1977)
- Activities: Harvard Law Review - Developments Editor, 1976-1977; Editor, 1975-1976
- Columbia University
- B.A. (1974)
- Honors: summa cum laude
Awards
- Amicus Service Award
- International Municipal Lawyers Association
- COGEL Award
- Council on Government Ethics Laws
Professional Associations
- Drafting Committee on Public Meetings During Public Health Emergencies, Uniform Laws Commission
- Reporter
- - Current
- American Law Institute
- Member
- - Current
- Project on Principles of Government Ethics
- Reporter
- - Current
- New York State Bar  # 1236629
- Member
- - Current
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