University of Michigan Law School, J.D., 2020
Magna Cum Laude, Order of the Coif
Michigan Law Review; Federalist Society
University of California, Irvine, Doctor of Philosophy in Criminology, Law and Society, 2014
Amherst College, B.A. in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought, 2010
Cum Laude
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Adam began his legal career serving the Supreme Court of Texas, first as a law clerk to Justice Brett Busby of the Supreme Court of Texas and later as a Staff Attorney to Justice Evan A. Young. Between those times at the Court, he also served as a law clerk for Judge Jay S. Bybee of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and worked as an appellate lawyer at a large international firm. He now practices at the appellate boutique Alexander Dubose & Jefferson LLP. He has been the strategic architect of more than a dozen matters before the Texas Supreme Court, Texas and federal courts of appeals, and trial courts across the state, with a particular focus on Texas Supreme Court practice.
Before becoming a lawyer, Adam was a tenure-track assistant professor of criminal justice at Texas Christian University. He is the author of approximately two dozen peer-reviewed, law review, and practitioner publications — including work appearing in the Yale Law Journal Forum, the South Carolina Law Review, and the Journal of Economic and Behavioral Organization. He writes about Texas law and appellate practice at his Substack, 14th & Colorado.
Law Review
Adam B. Shniderman, Gun Insurance Mandates and the Second Amendment, 75 S.C. L. Rev. 97 (2023)
Kyle D. Logue & Adam B. Shniderman, The Case for Banning (and Mandating) Ransomware Insurance, 28 Conn. Ins. L.J. 247 (2022)
Adam B. Shniderman, Prove It! Judging the Hostile-or-Warlike-Action Exclusion in Cyber-Insurance Policies, 129 Yale L.J. F. 64 (2019)
Adam B. Shniderman, Prosecutors Respond to Calls for Forensic Science Reform: More Sharks in Dirty Water, 126 Yale L.J. F. 348 (2017)
Adam B. Shniderman, Ripped from the Headlines: Juror Perceptions in the ‘Law & Order’ Era, 38 Law & Psychol. Rev. 97 (2014)
Adam B. Shniderman, The Devil’s Advocate: Using Neuroscientific Evidence in International Criminal Trials? 38 Brook. J. Int’l L. 655 (2013)
Adam B. Shniderman, You Can’t Handle the Truth: Lies, Damn Lies, and the Exclusion of Polygraph Evidence, 22 Alb. L.J. Sci. & Tech. 433 (2012)
Peer Reviewed
Timothy C. Salmon & Adam B. Shniderman, Ambiguity in Criminal Punishment, 163 J. Econ. Behav. & Org. 361 (2019)
George E. Newman, Adam B. Shniderman, Daylian Cain, & Kyle Sevel, Do the Ends Justify the Means? The Relative Focus on Overhead Versus Outcomes in Charitable Fundraising, 48 Nonprofit & Voluntary Sector Q. 71 (2019)
Adam B. Shniderman & Lauren B. Solberg, Mandatory Neurointervention: A Lesser Evil to Incarceration?, 9 Am. J. Bioethics: Neuroscience 148 (2018)
Cory J. Clark, Adam Shniderman, Jamie B. Luguri, & Peter H. Ditto, Are Morally Good Actions Ever Free? 63 Consciousness & Cognition 161 (2018)
Adam B. Shniderman & Lauren B. Solberg, Narrative Identity: Challenges for Retribution in the Criminal Justice System, 8 Am. J. Bioethics: Neuroscience 190 (2017)
Lauren B. Solberg & Adam B. Shniderman, Legal Language of Health Care Consent Forms: Complexity, Comprehension, and Impact on Patient Decision-Making, 8 Am. J. Bioethics: Neuroscience 47 (2017)
Adam B. Shniderman & Lauren B. Solberg, The Slippery Slope of Reasons-Responsiveness for the Criminal Justice System, 7 Am. J. Bioethics: Neuroscience 220 (2016)
Adam B. Shniderman & Lauren B. Solberg, Cosmetic Psychopharmacology for Prisoners: Reducing Crime and Recidivism Through Cognitive Enhancement, 8 Neuroethics 315 (2015)
Adam B. Shniderman & Charles A. Smith, Toward Justice: Neuroscience and Affirmative Defenses at the ICC, 66 Stud. L. Pol. & Soc’y 87 (2015)
Nicholas Scurich & Adam B. Shniderman, The Selective Allure of Neuroscientific Explanations 9 PLoS One (2014)
Practitioner
Adam Shniderman, Gun Insurance Mandates, The Brief: ABA Tort, Trial, & Ins. Sec. J., Summer 2023 at 8
Adam Shniderman, The Selective Allure of Neuroscience and its Implications for the Courtroom, The Jury Expert, Nov. 2014 at 33
Adam Shniderman, No Such Thing as a Sure Thing: Neuroscience, the Insanity Defense, and Sentencing Mitigation, The Jury Expert, Feb. 2014 at 11
Adam Shniderman, Neutralizing Negative Pretrial Publicity: A Multi-Part Strategy, The Jury Expert, Nov. 2013 at 15
Texas; District of Columbia; Courts of Appeals for the Fifth & Ninth Circuits; Northern District of Texas
Cyber Insurance, Texas Bar Advanced Insurance Law Seminar (June 6, 2025)
Appellate Issues: Current Trends, Texas Bar Advanced Insurance Law (June 6, 2026)
The Road Less Traveled: Arguing Divergences in State and Federal Law, UTLaw CLE (June 12, 2026)
Litigating Texas Civil Constitutional Claims, Texas Bar Constitutional Law Section (July 24, 2026)
New Petition Process at the Texas Supreme Court: Perspectives from the Bench and Bar (with Justice Brett Busby), Texas Bar Civil Appellate 101 (September 8, 2026)
Beyond the Breach: AI, Ransomware, and the Future of Cyber Insurance, Dallas Insurance Law Inn of Court (September 15, 2026)
Changes in Petition for Review Practice (with Doug Alexander), UTLaw CLE (September 24, 2026)