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Lee Albert, professor emeritus in the UB Law School, died of cancer Sept. 5 in New York City. He was 73.
Albert joined the Law School faculty in 1975 and spent 33 years as a teacher, researcher and administrator in the school. He served as associate dean from 1988-90 and from 1991-93.
While at UB, Albert taught and wrote on administrative law, constitutional law, health care law, and law and medicine. He was instrumental in developing UB Law’s health law program and helped launch the current health law concentration in 1998. In 1992, he created an innovative seminar titled “Policy Issues in Clinical Medicine,” co-teaching with faculty from the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. The seminar brought law and medical students together to study controversial issues in clinical medicine.
Albert graduated magna cum laude from the Yale Law School, where he was editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal, and clerked for Supreme Court Justice Byron White.
He spent several years teaching at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and at Columbia and Yale law schools, and also served as director of the Columbia Center on Social Welfare Policy and Law.
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.
After retiring from UB Law in 2008, he and his wife, Elizabeth, moved to New York City.
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