Adam Samaha
Assistant Professor of Law and Herbert and Marjorie Fried Teaching Scholar
1111 East 60th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
phone: 773-834-3255
email: asamaha@uchicago.edu

Adam Samaha received his B.A. in history and government from Bowdoin College, graduating summa cum laude and with highest honors in 1992. He received his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1996, where he was an Editor for the Harvard Law Review and was awarded the Sears Prize and the Fay Diploma. He then clerked for Chief Justice Alexander M. Keith of the Minnesota Supreme Court during the 1996 term and, after a year of law practice, for Justice John Paul Stevens of the U.S. Supreme Court during the 1998 term.

From 1999 to 2003, Professor Samaha practiced law part-time at Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi in Minneapolis while teaching part-time as a Visiting Scholar at the University of Minnesota Law School. He became a Visiting Associate Professor at Minnesota for the 2003–2004 academic year, and joined the Chicago law faculty in 2004. Professor Samaha received the Graduating Students Award for Teaching Excellence in 2007. He is now the Herbert and Marjorie Fried Teaching Scholar.

Professor Samaha's research and teaching interests include constitutional law and theory, freedom of speech and religion, and the federal judiciary.