Richard Briffault

Richard Briffault is an American legal scholar. He is the Joseph P. Chamberlain Professor of Legislation at Columbia Law School. From 2014 to 2020, he served as Chairman of the New York City Conflicts of Interest Board. His specialties are constitutional law, government regulation, and election law.

Biography Briffault earned a bachelor's degree from Columbia University in 1974. He graduated from Harvard Law School in 1977. Briffault began teaching at Columbia Law School in 1983, and was later named the Joseph P. Chamberlain Professor of Legislation. His specialties are constitutional law, government regulation, and election law.

He has been the reporter for the American Law Institute's Principles of Government Ethics project, and, was named to Governor Andrew M. Cuomo’s Commission to Investigate Public Corruption, the Moreland Commission, which probes systemic public corruption and the appearance of such corruption in state government, political campaigns, and elections.

From 2014 to 2020, he served as Chairman of the New York City Conflicts of Interest Board. The Board is an enforcement agency that governs the ethical conduct of public employees.

Personal life and family He married Canadian economist Sherry Glied in 1993. Glied currently serves as the Dean of New York University's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.