Adam J. White

Adam J. White is a scholar at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and director of the Center for the Study of the Administrative State at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School. He writes widely on the administrative state — including matters of religion and state, financial regulation, and energy policy — on the judiciary and the Supreme Court, and on the U.S. Constitution.

Mr. White was recently appointed to the Administrative Conference of the United States, a federal advisory board focused on improving federal agencies’ practices. He also serves in leadership capacities in the administrative law groups of the American Bar Association and the Federalist Society, the premier American legal organization dedicated to promoting individual liberty, traditional values, and the rule of law.

His articles appear in The Wall Street Journal, The Weekly Standard, Commentary, and other publications, and he is a contributing editor for National Affairs, City Journal, and The New Atlantis. He previously practiced law at Boyden Gray & Associates PLLC and Baker Botts LLP, litigating regulatory and constitutional issues. After graduating from the University of Iowa and Harvard Law School, he clerked for Judge David B. Sentelle on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.