Albert Paul Blaustein was an American civil rights and human rights lawyer and constitutional consultant who helped draft the Fijian and Liberian constitutions, as well as being called in as a consultant for the constitutions of Zimbabwe, Bangladesh, Cambodia and Peru.
10 Facts About Albert Blaustein
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Albert Blaustein was the editor of the 20-volume encyclopaedia Constitutions of the Countries of the World.
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Blaustein was born in Brooklyn, New York City on October 12,1921, to lawyer Allen Blaustein and Rose Brickman, and often operated under the pseudonym Allen DeGraeff.
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Albert Blaustein graduated at the age of 16 from Boys High School and then attended the University of Michigan, where he worked on The Michigan Daily newspaper, graduating in 1941, at the age of 19.
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Albert Blaustein graduated from Columbia Law School in 1948, and in the same year he was admitted to the New York State Bar.
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From 1959 until 1968, Albert 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.
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Albert Blaustein worked with the Civil Rights Reviewing Authority, National Committee for American Foreign Policy, New Jersey Division on Civil Rights and helped found Law day.
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Albert Blaustein later worked to develop the Russian court system and constitution, and in 1966, served as the expert witness on legal aspects of population control for the US Senate.
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Albert Blaustein 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.
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Albert Blaustein has three children, Mark Allen, Eric Barry and Dana Beth and is the Pop-Pop of world famous comedian Michael Blaustein.