Professor Lee A. Albert
Lee A. Albert was a teacher, researcher and administrator in the law school from 1975-2008, including service as associate dean from 1988-1990 and from 1991-1993. A specialist in health care law and Constitutional law, Albert focused his scholarship on medical ethics.
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Interview Date(s)
May 20, 2010
Occasion
A Gathering to Honor UB Law Professors Emeriti
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About Professor Lee A. Albert
Professor Albert discusses innovative classes he co-taught with faculty from UB’s School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. He taught and wrote on Constitutional law, administrative law, health care law, and law and medicine. He was instrumental in developing the university’s health law program.
In 1992, he created an innovative seminar, Policy Issues in Clinical Medicine, in conjunction with medical school faculty. This important seminar brought law and medical students together to study issues in clinical medicine.
Before coming to the law school, Albert graduated magna cum laude from Yale Law School, where he was editor in chief of the Yale Law Journal, and then clerked for Supreme Court Justice Byron White. In 1970, he successfully argued before the U.S. Supreme Court the landmark case Goldberg v. Kelly, ensuring due process for recipients of public assistance.
Professor Albert was born Feb. 5, 1937 and died Sept. 16, 2010.