Jonathan H. Adler
Adler in March 2017
Born	Philadelphia,Pennsylvania, U.S.
Academic background
Education	Yale University (BA) George Mason University (JD)
Academic work
Discipline	Jurisprudence
Sub-discipline	Administrative law Constitutional law Environmental law
Institutions	Competitive Enterprise Institute Case Western Reserve University School of Law Cato Institute

Jonathan H. Adler is a conservative American legal commentator andlaw professor at theCase Western Reserve University School of Law. He has been recognized as one of the most cited professors in the field of environmental law.^[1] His research is also credited with inspiring litigation that challenged theObama Administration's implementation of theAffordable Care Act, resulting in theSupreme Court's decision inKing v. Burwell.^[2]

Adler was born inPhiladelphia. He graduated fromFriends' Central School inWynnewood, Pennsylvania, then studiedhistory atYale University, graduating in 1991 with aB.A.,magna cum laude. From 1991 to 2000, Adler was a policy analyst at theCompetitive Enterprise Institute, alibertarianthink tank inWashington, DC. He attended theGeorge Mason University School of Law as an evening student, becoming an editor of theGeorge Mason Law Review. He graduated in 2000 ranked first in his class with aJ.D.,summa cum laude.^[3]

After law school, Adler was alaw clerk for JudgeDavid B. Sentelle of theU.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 2000 to 2001. From 1991 to 2000, he worked at the conservativeCompetitive Enterprise Institute, where he directed the Institute'senvironmental studies program, and worked on environmental policy matters.^[3] Although a proponent of "free-market environmentalism," Adler has also endorsed the imposition of acarbon tax and other measures to address the problem of climate change.^[4] He is also credited with helping to convince some formerclimate change deniers to accept the scientific evidence for global warming and the associated threat.^[5] Adler is currently one of the most cited law professors in the fields of administrative and environmental law.^[6]

Adler supported former RepublicanTennessee SenatorFred Thompson in the2008 presidential election.^[7] In 2012, Adler headed a screening committee appointed by Ohio governorJohn Kasich to assist him in selecting an appointee to fill an open seat on the Ohio Supreme Court.^[8] Adler again participated in the selection process to fill an open Ohio Supreme Court seat in 2017. Hs has also served on the Bipartisan Judicial Advisory Commission appointed by Ohio SenatorsSherrod Brown andRob Portman to advise on federal district court nominations.^{[citation needed]}

In 2018, Adler was a founding member ofChecks and Balances.^[9] As part of Checks and Balances, Adler has joined multiple statements criticizing former President Trump and defending rule of law values.

Adler's research and writing on theAffordable Care Act is credited with inspiring litigation that led to aU.S. Supreme Court challenge to the lawfulness of tax credits in states that failed to create their own health insurance exchanges.^[2] Adler first wrote an article for a 2011 health care symposium in which he argued that the text of the Affordable Care Act did not authorize tax credits in states that refused to set up their own health insurance exchanges.^[10] At the time, this did not seem like a significant observation as the Supreme Court had not yet decidedNFIB v. Sebelius and it appeared that most states would voluntarily create their own exchanges.^[11]

As states started to resist implementing the Affordable Care Act, Adler co-authored several pieces with Michael Cannon of theCato Institute, arguing that anIRS rule authorizing tax credits in states that did not create their own exchanges would be unlawful.^[12][13] Adler and Cannon's arguments were controversial, and prompted significant academic response.^[14] Adler and Cannon's work also prompted several lawsuits challenging the lawfulness of the tax credits, includingHalbig v. Sebelius andKing v. Burwell.^[15]

Adler and Cannon filed amicus briefs defending their research in several of the cases. In the end, however, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected Adler and Cannon's interpretation by a 6–3 vote inKing v. Burwell. Adler's scholarship has also been relied upon in other Supreme Court cases, and was cited by Chief Justice Roberts in hisCity of Arlington v. FCC dissent^[16] and by Justice Gorsuch inKisor v. Wilkie.^[17]

Adler is currently a tenured professor atCase Western Reserve University School of Law inCleveland, where he teaches courses in environmental, regulatory, andconstitutional law. He is the director of the law school's Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Regulation.^[18] In 2011, Adler was named the inaugural holder of the Johan Verheij Memorial Professorship at CWRU.^[19]

Adler is a contributing editor to the conservativeNational Review Online and a contributor to "The Volokh Conspiracy". He blogged anonymously under the pseudonym "Juan Non-Volokh" at "The Volokh Conspiracy" until May 1, 2006.^[20]

Adler serves on the advisory board of the NFIB Legal Foundation, and the Environmental Law Reporter and ELI Press Advisory Board of theEnvironmental Law Institute.^[3]

In 2004, Adler received thePaul M. Bator Award. In 2007, the Case Western Reserve University Law Alumni Association awarded Adler their annual "Distinguished Teacher Award."^[3]

In 2001, Adler moved toCleveland,Ohio, where he met his wife, Christina.^[3]

• Marijuana Federalism: Uncle Sam and Mary Jane (2020),ISBN 978-0815737896
• Business and the Roberts Court, Editor (2016),ISBN 978-0199859344
• A Conspiracy Against Obamacare: The Volokh Conspiracy and the Health Care Case, co-author (2013),ISBN 978-1137363732
• Rebuilding the Ark: New Perspectives on Endangered Species Act Reform (2011),ISBN 978-0844743912
• Ecology, Liberty & Property: A Free Market Environmental Reader, Editor (2000)ISBN 978-1889865027
• The Costs of Kyoto: Climate Change Policy and Its Implications, Editor (1997),ISBN 978-1889865010
• Environmentalism at the Crossroads: Green Activism in America (1995),ISBN 978-0865875708

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