Albert Blaustein

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name= Albert Blaustein


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birth_date= October 12, 1921
birth_place= New York City
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death_date= 1994
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occupation= Lawyer, Legal advisor
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Albert Paul Blaustein (October 12, 1921 — 1994) was an American Civil Rights and human rights lawyer and expert constitutional consultant who helped draft the Fijian and Liberian constitutions, as well as being called in as a consultant for the constitutions of for Zimbabwe, Bangladesh, Cambodia and Peru. To a lesser extent, he was involved in the constitutions of Poland, South Africa, Hungary, Romania, Niger, Uganda and Trinidad and Tobago. He was the editor of the 20-volume encyclopaedia "Constitutions of the Countries of the World".

Blaustein was born in New York City to lawyer Allen Blaustein and Rose Brickman, and often operated under the pseudonym "Allen de Graff". He attended the University of Michigan, where he worked on The Michigan Daily newspaper, graduating in 1941. He went on to obtain more honors from the Columbia University in 1948, and in the same year he was admitted to the New York State Bar. From 1948 to 1955 he was assistant professor of law at New York Law School, as well as, a consultant for the National Trial Lawyers Association before moving to Rutgers University until 1959, when he became law librarian. [ A brief [http://www.melchizedek.com/biography.htm biography] retrieved on March 22, 2007]

From 1959 until 1968 Blaustein worked in the London School of Economics, the Constitution Associates foreign advisory board and the US Department of Education and the US Commission on Civil Rights from 1962 - 1963. Between 1971 and 1972 he acted as a legal consultant to various African nations and to the United States Senate. He worked with the Civil Rights Reviewing Authority, National Committee for American Foreign Policy, New Jersey Division on Civil Rights and also helped found Law day. [ A brief [http://www.melchizedek.com/biography.htm biography] retrieved on March 22, 2007] Blaustein later worked to develop the Russian court system and constitution, [The Philadelphia Inquirer [http://www.melchizedek.com/images/Blaustein.gif"article"] retrieved on March 23, 2007] and in 1966 served as the expert witness on legal aspects of population control for the US Senate.

During his life he served 14 years in the US Army Reserves retiring with the rank of major, and served from 1942 until 1946 in the Judge Advocate General's Corps. He had three children, Mark Allen, Eric Barry and Dana Beth. [ A brief [http://www.melchizedek.com/biography.htm biography] retrieved on March 22, 2007]

Written work

* "Framing the Modern Constitution: A Checklist" 1994
* "Human Rights in the World's Constitutions" 1993
* "Discrimination Against Women: A Global Survey of the Economic, Educational, Social and Political Status of Women" 1990
* "Constitutions That Made History" 1988
* "Resolving Language Conflicts: A Study of the World's Constitution" 1986
* "Independence Documents of the World" 1977
* "The Arab Oil Weapon" 1977
* "Civil Rights and the Black American: A Documentary History" 1976
* "Desegregation and the law: The meaning and effect of the school segregation cases" 1957
* "The American lawyer: A summary of the "Survey of the legal profession" 1954 [ Amazon.com [http://www.amazon.co.uk/s?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=Albert+Blaustein list of published works] retrieved on March 23, 2007]

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