Adam Chilton is a Howard G. Krane Professor of Law and the Walter Mander Research Scholar at the University of Chicago Law School. Adam's primary research interests lie at the intersection of international law, comparative law, and empirical legal studies. Adam currently serves as a co-editor of the Journal of Law and Economics.

Many of Adam’s research projects focus on how law can promote economic, social, and political development around the world. For instance, Adam’s recent book co-authored by Mila Versteeg, How Constitutional Rights Matter, won the Best Book Prize from the International Society of Public Law and from the Human Rights Section of the American Political Science Association.

Adam also has ongoing projects focused on documenting the development and enforcement of competition law regimes around the world, studying how Bilateral Labor Agreements can be used to promote international labor migration, and researching how to improve the quality of life in informal urban communities.

In addition to these international and comparative projects, other topics Adam researches include reforming the United States Supreme Court, measuring the ideology of the American legal profession, studying the determinates judicial decision making, and improving legal education and the legal academy.

Adam received a BA and MA in Political Science from Yale University. After college, Adam worked as a management consultant for BCG. He then went to Harvard University, where he earned a JD and a PhD in Political Science. Before joining the faculty, Adam taught at the Law School as a Bigelow Fellow and Lecturer in Law.