Richard Langan

Richard H. Langan II is a lawyer and senior consultant with 23 years of combined law practice and international affairs experience—including assignments in zones of armed conflict. Richard Langan has regularly advised the U.N. and U.S. Department of State in democracy and rule of law, anti-money laundering (AML)/anti-corruption, transitional justice, courts and judicial reform, access to justice, legislative process, public administration, security sector reform, human rights, ethnic-minorities, media freedoms, and legal education—with a particular emphasis on the Middle East, Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, Russia, South East Asia and North, East and West Africa. He has evaluated or designed rule of law and access to justice programmes for the United Nations Development Programme in Iraq, Jordan, Israel and Palestine (West Bank and Gaza), Serbia, Turkey, Ukraine, Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea-Bissau, Sudan, South Sudan, Maldives, Nepal, Bangladesh and Vietnam. He has also rendered legal analysis for the U.N. Secretary General’s Rule of Law Unit globally and evaluated the drug control, anti-corruption and anti-terrorism programmes of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in East Asia and the Pacific. In addition, Mr. Langan evaluated the United States Agency for International Development’s justice sector support project in Bosnia and he has recently performed reconnaissance for USAID/Department of State contractors in Rwanda, Burundi and the Philippines. He previously completed assignments with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe during the crises in Macedonia (2001) and in Tirana, Albania during the Kosovo Crises (1998). Additionally, he advised initiatives of the Open Society Institute (OSI) in Central and Eastern Europe, Russia and the CIS throughout the 1990s. Mr. Langan is a frequent contributor to the work of the American Bar Association’s International Legal Resource Centre and currently represents the ABA as a member of the World Bank’s “Global Forum on Law, Justice and Development”. Richard Langan holds a Master of Laws (LL.M.) in International, Foreign and Comparative Law from Columbia University School of Law and a Juris Doctor degree (J.D.) from Tulane University School of Law. He is licensed to practice law in New York and Colorado. Since 2003, he has operated his own law and consulting practice in New York advising international organizations, foundations and independent media clients. He formerly practiced in the area of corporate and securities litigation as an attorney for Tyco International, Inc., where he provided representation to Tyco in complex litigation against its former executives and related investigations by governmental authorities; and related SEC, state securities and ERISA litigation and compliance actions. During this litigation Tyco International, Inc. seconded him to the New York law firm of Boies, Schiller & Flexner, LLP. He previously worked for law firms in New Orleans, Louisiana and the United States Department of Justice, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana. Before attending law school he worked in London as a claims broker in the international insurance markets at Lloyd’s of London. He served as the Articles Editor of Columbia University Law School’s Parker School Journal of East European Law and as a Managing Editor of the Tulane Maritime Law Journal. He has participated in a number of legal publishing projects requiring comparative study and analysis in both Civil and Common Law jurisdictions and under international law. He is a contributing author of the ABA’s “Rule of Law Handbook” (2013) and a co-author of the book Administrative Justice in the New European Democracies: Case Studies of Administrative Law and Process in Bulgaria, Estonia, Hungary, Poland and Ukraine (Oxford University 1998). Upon his graduation from Columbia Law School, he remained at Columbia for an additional year to write draft chapters for the casebook EU Law Cases and Materials, Bermann, Goebel, Davey and Fox, 2nd ed. 2002 (West). He has previously taught law in the United States and Europe to students from over 25 different countries including serving as an Assistant Professor of Law at the Central European University, Budapest and as a visiting lecturer in Bulgaria, Russia and Ukraine with programs of OSI and Yale University. Mr. Langan also serves as President and CEO of “The Other 364” Foundation-a non-profit charitable foundation in New York, established in the memory of the children of Madonna Badger. He served for seven years as member of the Committee on European Affairs of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York (ABCNY). In addition, he has contributed hundreds of hours of his time to pro-bono clients in New York--including volunteering his time to Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts-New York (“VLA”), where he has represented independent filmmakers and directors. Further information is available on his website: www.langan-law.com.