Kristen David Adams graduated from Emory Law School with honors in 1995 and received the degree of Masters of Law from Yale Law School in 2000. While at Emory, she was a Managing Editor of the Emory Law Journal. Professor Adams received her Bachelor of Arts degree cum laude from Rice University in 1992. She is a member of both Phi Beta Kappa and the Order of the Coif.
Between the two law degrees, she practiced law for four years in Atlanta, first with Alston & Bird, L.L.C. and later with Altman, Kritzer & Levick, P.C. Professor Adams' practice included extensive work in the areas of general commercial litigation, products liability, medical products litigation, medical and psychiatric malpractice defense, intellectual property, and real estate litigation. During her tenure at Alston & Bird, she participated in the development of the firm's Products Liability Advisory.
While in private practice, Professor Adams' pro bono projects included representing truants before the Fulton County Juvenile Court, co-chairing the Atlanta Legal Aid Society's annual Associate Fundraising Campaign, and serving as an Atlanta Legal Aid Litigation Fellow.
Professor Adams co-authored The Practice of Law School: Getting in and Making the Most of Your Legal Education with Christen Civiletto Carey, Esq. This book, which was published in June 2003 by ALM Publishing, a division of American Lawyer Media, is intended to help new law students find out what to expect, how to succeed at every stage, and how to make their law-school experience both fulfilling and relevant to their development as lawyers.
Professor Adams, as the holder of the Leroy Highbaugh, Sr. Chair in faculty research for the 2004-2005 and 2005-2006 academic years, prepared a Commercial Transactions casebook published by Thomson/West, Commercial Transactions: A Survey of United States Law with International Perspective, and engaged in other research as her primary full-time responsibility during the 2005-2006 academic year.
Professor Adams is also a member of the American Law Institute, Chair of the American Bar Association Business Law Section's UCC Subcommittee on General Scope and Provisions, and Chair of the Florida Bar's Public Interest Law Section Homelessness Committee. Her primary research interests are in the areas of Commercial Law (specifically the Uniform Commercial Code), Uniform Law (specifically the Restatement movement), and low-income housing.
A third book is currently in progress, to be published by Thomson/West during the Summer of 2008: Uniform Commercial Code in a Nutshell, 7th ed., with Bradford Stone.
Professor Adams is also the author of the following articles:
Interstate Gambling: Can States Stop the Run for the Border?, 44 Emory L.J. 1025 (1995).
The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: A Toothless Tiger?, 26 N.C. J. Intl. L. & Com. Reg. 1 (2000).
Promise Enforcement in Public Housing: Lessons from Rousseau and Hundertwasser, 76 Tul. L. Rev. 1073 (2002).
Promise Enforcement: Can the Lessons of Hundertwasser and Rousseau Save Affordable Housing in the United States? 41 San Diego L. Rev. 643 (2004).
The Folly of Uniformity? Lessons from the Restatement Movement 33 Hofstra L. Rev. 423 (2004).
Housing, Personhood, and Dignity, 36 Stetson L. Rev. 1 (2006).
The Restatements and the Common Law: Blaming the Mirror, 40 Ind. L. Rev. 205 (2007).
The American Law Institute: Justice Cardozo's Ministry of Justice?, 32 S. Ill. U. L.J. 173 (2007)
Do We Need A Right to Housing? (Forthcoming).
Professor Adams teaches Contracts, Payment Systems, Interdisciplinary Jurisprudence, Commercial Transactions and a Commercial Transactions Seminar at Stetson. Professor Adams serves as the faculty coordinator for the Stetson University College of Law Honors Program.
Kristen David Adams
Stetson University College of Law
1401 61st Street South
St. Petersburg, FL 33707
(727) 562-7870
adams@law.stetson.edu
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