Adam Crews

Adam Crews researches and writes in the areas of administrative law, federal courts and procedure, and statutory interpretation. His scholarship has been published (or is forthcoming) in journals such as the Stanford Law Review, the Northwestern University Law Review, and the Arizona State Law Journal.

Adam joined the Rutgers faculty in 2023 after serving as appellate counsel at the Federal Communications Commission, where he defended the agency's rules and orders in appellate courts across the country and served as a legal advisor on diverse telecommunications law and policy issues. Prior to public service, he was an associate at the international law firm Covington & Burling LLP in Washington, D.C., where he represented major domestic and international financial institutions in complex class actions, commercial litigation, and government enforcement matters. Across public service and private practice, Adam has worked on several leading cases in cutting edge areas of the law, including Cantero v. Bank of America, 602 U.S. 205 (2024), on the scope of National Bank Act preemption; Gonzalez v. Google, 598 U.S. 617 (2023), on regulation of social media; and Consumers' Research v. FCC, 88 F.4th 917 (11th Cir. 2023), on the legality of the FCC's $8.5 billion annual universal service program.

Adam is a first-generation college graduate. He received his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif, and he graduated as valedictorian with a B.S. from Truman State University. He began his legal career as a law clerk for the Hon. T.S. Ellis, III, on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia and the Hon. Sandra S. Ikuta on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. While working in public service, he was an inaugural recipient of the American Bar Association's Prospective Administrative Law Scholars fellowship, which aims to diversify the legal academy and to provide a pathway to academia for experienced administrative law practitioners. He is now a regular contributor to the ABA Section on Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice's Administrative & Regulatory Law News magazine, where he covers administrative law developments in the mid-Atlantic region.