Tonight’s Newsline Guest: David Adler
Tonight on Newsline Jay Hildebrandt will interview David Adler live. The following is a short biography for David.
David Adler is President of The Sun Valley Institute, a non-profit organization created to promote civic education and civil dialogue. Adler has taught courses on the Constitution and the Supreme Court at all three universities in Idaho. He has held the Andrus Professorship at Boise State University and the McClure Professorship at the University of Idaho, where he held a joint appointment in the College of Law and the Department of Political Science. Previously, he was Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for Constitutional Studies at Idaho State University. He remains an adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Idaho College of Law. A recipient of teaching, civic and writing awards, Adler has published in the leading journals of his field, and has lectured nationally and internationally on the Constitution, presidential power and the Bill of Rights. He has delivered more than 500 public lectures throughout Idaho and writes frequent Op-Ed pieces for newspapers across the state. In 2010, he was the recipient of the Idaho Humanities Council’s Distinguished Humanities Award.
The author of more than 100 scholarly articles, essays and book chapters, Adler has published widely on the Constitution and presidential power. His books include: the two-volume work, American Constitutional Law; The Constitution and the Conduct of American Foreign Policy; The Presidency and the Law: The Clinton Legacy; The Constitution and the Termination of Treaties, and the forthcoming book: Debating the War Powers of Congress and the President.
His writings have been quoted and cited by the U.S. Supreme Court, lower federal courts, political scientists, historians and legal scholars, and invoked by both Republicans and Democrats in the legislative and executive branches of the federal government. He has consulted with members of Congress from both parties on a variety of constitutional issues, including impeachment, the war power and treaty termination. A frequent commentator on state and national events, Adler’s lectures have aired on C-Span, and he has done interviews with reporters from the New York Times, Washington Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, National Review, The Nation Magazine, Mother Jones, Fox News, NPR, NBC, CNN and the BBC. Adler has served as a member of the Board of Directors of various academic, corporate and civic organizations. He earned a B.A. from Michigan State University and a Ph.D. from the University of Utah.
