Adam Muchmore

Professor of Law

0323 Lewis Katz Building

Email aim10@psu.edu
Phone 814-865-8972
Elsevier Pure Profile

Areas of Expertise

Law Social Sciences
USA Social Sciences
Statutory Interpretation Social Sciences
Drug Regulation Keyphrases
Food Regulation Keyphrases
Product Category Keyphrases
Statute Keyphrases
Law Keyphrases

Education

J.D., Yale Law School
B.A., University of Oklahoma, summa cum laude

Websites

Elsevier Pure Profile

Professor Adam I. Muchmore focuses his research on food and drug regulation. He is also interested in the role of the uncertainty, delegation, and discretion in complex regulatory systems, the regulation of international business, and the civil litigation process. He is the author of Food and Drug Regulation: A Statutory Approach (2021) and Food and Drug Regulation: Statutory and Regulatory Supplement (2024 Edition), both published by Carolina Academic Press.

Professor Muchmore graduated from Yale Law School in 2003, where he was co-editor-in-chief of the Yale Journal of International Law. Following graduation, he served as a law clerk to Judge Keith P. Ellison of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas and Judge Karen Nelson Moore of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. He then worked as a litigation associate in the Washington, D.C., office of Sidley Austin LLP, where he focused his practice on the life sciences industry. Prior to joining Penn State Law, he was a Bigelow Teaching Fellow and Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago Law School.

He regularly teaches Food and Drug Regulation, Conflict of Laws, and Civil Procedure. He served as Associate Dean for Research and Partnerships from July 2017 through December 2018.

Marketing Authorization at the FDA: Paradigms and Alternatives
Adam I. Muchmore, Sep 21 2022, In: Administrative Law Review, Vol. 74, No. 3, 2022

2021

Food and Drug Regulation: A Statutory Approach (2021)
Adam Ian Muchmore, Mar 1 2021, In:

Food and Drug Regulation: Statutory and Regulatory Supplement (2021 Edition)
Adam Ian Muchmore, Aug 11 2021, In:

2016

Uncertainty, Complexity, and Regulatory Design
Adam Ian Muchmore, May 11 2016, In: Houston Law Review

2013

Jurisdictional Standards (and Rules)
Adam Ian Muchmore, Feb 2013, In: Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

2012

International Activity and Domestic Law
Adam Ian Muchmore, 2012, In: Penn State Journal of Law and International Affairs

2010

Private Regulation and Foreign Conduct
Adam Ian Muchmore, 2010, In: San Diego Law Review

2004

Passports and Nationality in International Law
Adam Ian Muchmore, 2004, In: U.C. Davis Journal of International Law & Policy

2001

Review of "Multilateral Treaty-Making: The Current Status of Challenges to and Reforms Needed in the International Legislative Process (Vera Gowlland-Debbas ed. 2000)
Adam Ian Muchmore, 2001, In: Yale Journal of International Law

Adam Muchmore

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Education

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