Alasdair Roberts (academic)
Alasdair Roberts | |
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| Born | 1961 New Liskeard, Ontario, Canada |
| Alma mater | Queen's University, University of Toronto Law School, Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | law, public policy, government secrecy, government authority |
Alasdair Roberts is a legal scholar, professor, and author.
Education
A native of New Liskeard Ontario, Canada, Roberts began his BA in politics at Queen's University in 1979. He received a JD from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law in 1984, a Master's degree in Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 1986, and a Ph.D. in Public Policy from Harvard University in 1994.
Academic career
He is currently the Jerome L. Rappaport Professor of Law and Public Policy at Suffolk University Law School's Rappaport Center.[1] Previously, he was a professor of public administration in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. He is also a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration and an Honorary Senior Research Fellow of the Constitution Unit, School of Public Policy, University College London.
Books
His book Blacked Out: Government Secrecy in the Information Age[2], received the 2006 Louis Brownlow Book Award from the National Academy of Public Administration, the 2007 book award from the Section on Public Administration Research of the American Society for Public Administration, the 2007 Best Book Award of the Academy of Management's Public and Nonprofit Division, and the 2007 Charles Levine Memorial Book Prize of the International Political Science Association's Research Committee on the Structure of Governance.
His most recent book is The Collapse of Fortress Bush: The Crisis of Authority in American Government.[3]
References
- ^ "Alasdair Roberts Named to Rappaport Chair at Law School." Suffolk University. 24 March 2008.[1]
- ^ Roberts, Alasdair. Blacked Out: Government Secrecy in the Information Age. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006
- ^ Roberts, Alasdair. The Collapse of Fortress Bush: The Crisis of Authority in American Government. New York: New York University Press, 2008