Richard H. McAdams
Bernard D. Meltzer Professor of Law
1111 East 60th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
phone: 773 834-2520
email: rmcadams@uchicago.edu

EDUCATION

University of Virginia School of Law
J.D., 1985
Order of the Coif
Notes Editor, Virginia Law Review, 1984-85

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
B.A., Economics degree awarded with honors, 1982
Phi Beta Kappa

EXPERIENCE

University of Chicago Law School
Professor of Law, 2007-present
Visiting Professor, Fall 2005

University of Illinois College of Law
Guy Raymond Jones Professor, 2003-2007
Professor, 1999-2003

University of Virginia
Visiting Professor (short course), September-October 2006

Illinois Program in Criminal Law & Procedure
Co-Director, 2005-2007

Yale Law School
Visiting Professor, 2003-2004
Australian National University, Research School of Social Sciences
Visiting Fellow, Social and Political Theory Group, June-August 1999

Boston University School of Law
Professor, 1997-99
Visiting Associate Professor, Spring 1997

University of Virginia School of Law
Visiting Assistant Professor, Fall 1994

IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law
Assistant and Associate Professor, 1990-97
Honors: Elected "Teacher of the Year" by student body, 1993

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Philadelphia, PA
Associate, Commercial and antitrust litigation and counseling; pro bono representation of Louisiana death row inmate, 1986-90

Honorable Harrison L. Winter, Chief Judge U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Judicial Clerk, 1985-86