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John M. Adler

Professor

After graduation from college, Professor Adler taught school in Newark, N.J., and Cambridge, Mass. He returned to New Mexico where he helped run a congressional campaign in the Northern District of New Mexico and began law school. Following his second year of law school, he moved to California and completed law school at UC Berkeley’s Boalt Hall and then began work as a staff attorney with the American Indian Lawyer Training Program, where he co-authored Indian Self-Determination and the Role of Tribal Courts. Prior to joining the faculty at USF, he practiced law with the San Francisco firm of Morrison and Foerster.

Currently he works with several Bay Area nonprofit organizations, including the Canal Alliance, which provides multiple services to an underserved immigrant community in San Rafael.

Education
  • AB, Harvard University
  • JD, University of New Mexico
Prior Experience
  • Associate, Morrison & Foerster
  • Staff Attorney, American Indian Lawyer Training Program
Awards
  • Distinguished Professor Award, USF School of Law (1988, 1990, 1992, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2005, 2007, 2009)
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Books
    Law Review and Journal Articles
    • "Relying Upon the Reasonableness of Strangers: Some Observations About the Current State of Common Law Affirmative Duties to Aid or Protect Others," 1991 Wisconsin Law Review 867 (1991).
    Book Contributions
      Opinion Pieces and Blog Posts
        Other Publications
        • Report, "Indian Self-Determination and the Role of Tribal Courts" (The American Indian Lawyer Training Program, 1977). (Co-authored)
        Briefs
          Court Citation of Research
            Presentations
            • Moderator, "Indigenous Rights," 13th Annual Trina Grillo Public Interest and Social Justice Retreat, University of San Francisco School of Law, (March 2011).
            • Moderator, "Judicial Independence: Corporate Expenditures and State Judicial Elections," University of San Francisco Law Review Symposium "Democracy, Inc? Citizens United, Corporate Expenditures & the Future of Campaign Finance Law," (February 2011).
            • Presenter, "Politics and Justice: Focus on the Supreme Court," Marin Seniors for Peace, Marin, Calif. (August 2010).
            • Presenter, "Analyzing the Federal Challenge," USF Law Review Symposium "The Future of Same-Sex Marriage," (February 2010).
            • Presenter, USF School of Law Constitution Day "The Supreme Court Selection Process and Justice Sonia Sotomayor," (September 2009). (Professors Maria Ontiveros and Julie Nice co-presented.)
            • Panelist, University of San Francisco School of Law Forum "The Future of the Supreme Court," (October 2008). (Co-presented with Professors Maya Manian and Julie Nice.)
            • Panelist, USF School of Law Consitution Day, (September 2005). (Video Recording)
            • Presenter, "50 Years After Brown v. Board of Education," (2004). (Video Recording)
            Testimony and Hearings
              Written Testimony and Commentary
                Advisor or Consultant
                • Consultant, Redwoods
                Counsel
                  Symposia Organization
                    Professional Membership
                    • President, Canal Alliance Board of Directors
                    • Member, Redwoods' Board of Directors
                    Fellowships
                      Other Service
                      • Worked with Professor Dolores Donovan to help establish USF rule-of-law program in Cambodia (early 1990s).
                      • USF Representative, "Congreso y Asamblea de la Asociacion Mundial" (May 2007). (Meeting of Jesuit law schools in Bogota, Colombia.)
                      • Adler has been involved with the Canal Alliance in different capacities for 5-6 years, and presently serves on the Canal Alliance Board of Directors.