Kristen David Adams
Wm. Reece Smith Jr. Distinguished Professor of Law and Director of Dispute Resolution Board
B.A., Rice University
JD, Emory Law School
LLM, Yale Law School
Office: DA-201 (Gulfport)
Courses
Commercial Transactions, International Business Transactions, Payment Systems, Real Property, Law through the Lens of Poetry
Kristen David Adams has been a member of the faculty at Stetson University College of Law since 2000 and currently holds the William Reece Smith, Jr. Distinguished Professorship. She has authored or co-authored thirteen books and more than twenty law review articles. Her four most recent books, The ABCs of the UCC: Articles 3 and 4, CISG Basics: A Guide to International Sales Law (with Candace Zierdt), The ABCs of the UCC: Related and Supplementary Consumer Law, Third Edition (with Candace Zierdt), and Law and Poetry: Promises from the Preamble, were published by the American Bar Association.
Adams is an elected member of the American Law Institute, an incoming officer in the American Bar Association Business Law Section and a former chair of the Uniform Commercial Code Committee, active in the American Bar Association Commission on Homelessness and Poverty, president of the American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers, the American Bar Association Business Law Section's Liaison to the Permanent Editorial Board for the Uniform Commercial Code, and past chair of the board for Gulfcoast Legal Services.
Featured Publications
The ABCs of the UCC, Article 3: Negotiable Instruments and Article 4: Bank Deposits and Collections, Fourth Edition
This updated edition in the ABCs of the UCC series on Articles 3 and 4 provides a basic understanding of negotiable instruments and bank deposits and collections, and includes important amendments to the UCC promulgated in 2022. The guide provides background terminology and a general outline of promissory notes, check collections, and documentary collections.
Law and Poetry: Promises from the Preamble
This anthology uses themes from the Preamble to the Constitution as a structure and framework to present fifty-six poems, one for each state, the District of Columbia, and each of the five territories that, together, comprise the United States of America. Some of the poems were written by lawyers, some have obvious legal themes, and others illuminate legal concepts more obliquely.
Additional publications are available on SSRN.
At Stetson, she teaches courses in property, domestic and international commercial law, payment systems, and law through the lens of poetry. She is the faculty director for the College of Law's Dispute Resolution Board, and one of the faculty coordinators for the Social Justice Advocacy Concentration. She has served in the role of the Interim Dean of the College of Law and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. She earned her B.A. from Rice University, her JD from Emory Law School, and her LLM from Yale Law School. She practiced law in Atlanta with Alston & Bird LLP and Altman, Kritzer & Levick, P.C. before entering the academy.