Richard Briffault

Richard Briffault is a professor at Columbia Law School specializing in state and local government law and campaign finance. He is co-author of the casebook State and Local Government Law and of Dollars and Democracy: A Blueprint for Campaign Finance Reform. He has advised numerous New York City and State commissions on charter revision, districting and constitutional revision, and served as Assistant Counsel to New York Governor Hugh L. Carey. He holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a B.A. from Columbia. He was an Alliance one-month visiting professor at Paris 1 in 2012.