Richard H. McAdams is the Bernard D. Meltzer Professor of Law. He writes on criminal law and procedure, the expressive function of law, statutory interpretation, and law and literature. Professor McAdams is the author of The Expressive Powers of Law: Theories and Limits (Harvard University Press 2015), and co-editor of Fatal Fictions: Crime and Investigation in Law and Literature (Oxford U. Press 2016) and Fairness in Law and Economics (Edward Elgar 2013). He has served as a member of the National Science Foundation Advisory Panel for Law & Social Sciences, the editorial board of the Annual Review of Law and Social Science, and the Board of Directors of the American Law and Economics Association.
Before joining the Law School in 2007, Professor McAdams taught on the law faculties at the University of Illinois, Boston University, and IIT Chicago-Kent. He was a visiting professor at the University of Virginia School of Law and Yale Law School, and a visiting fellow at the Australian National University Research School of Social Sciences. Professor McAdams teaches primarily in the area of criminal law and has recently taught Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Elements of the Law, and Law & Literature.