Gerald Adams

Gerald Adams is a nonresident scholar at the International Center for Law & Economics and a Sharswood fellow and resident scholar with the Center for Technology, Innovation and Competition at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School. His research focuses on law and technology, with particular emphasis on telecommunications and emerging-network regulation.

Before joining the University of Pennsylvania, Adams advised on domestic and international regulatory matters for a global satellite-communications constellation, focusing on deployment and spectrum policy. He also worked as a summer associate at Hogan Lovells, counseling on Federal Communications Commission proceedings, spectrum disputes, and trade-related telecommunications restrictions.

During law school, he interned at the Federal Communications Commission in the Office of Commissioner Geoffrey Starks and served as a research assistant on technology-policy and blockchain-regulation issues. Earlier, he worked as a patent engineer at Holland & Hart and as a research fellow at the Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics, studying quantum-computing networking systems.

Adams has received several academic distinctions. He was a Levy Scholar and received the Herbert F. Schwartz Award for distinguished achievement in law and technology.