Adam B. Cox

Biography

Adam Cox is the Robert A. Kindler Professor of Law at New York University School of Law, where he teaches and writes about immigration law, constitutional law, and democracy. Before coming to NYU, he was a professor of law at the University of Chicago Law School.

Cox received his B.S.E. in mechanical engineering summa cum laude from Princeton University, and his J.D. summa cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School. At Michigan he served as an articles editor of the Michigan Law Review and received the Daniel H. Grady Prize for graduating first in the law school class. He clerked for Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. After his clerkship he served as the Karpatkin Civil Rights Fellow for the American Civil Liberties Union, where he was involved in racial profiling and public defender reform litigation, and practiced at Wilmer, Cutler, and Pickering, where he first litigated immigration cases.