Faculty and Staff
Bob Adler
Robert S. Adler, the Luther H. Hodges Sr. Scholar, is an award-winning teacher of ethics, negotiation, business law and consumer protection. His research addresses negotiation, product safety, product liability, regulation, commercial law, medical malpractice and negotiation. He serves on the board of directors of Consumers Union, publisher of Consumer Reports magazine.
Professor Adler worked as an attorney before he came to UNC Kenan-Flagler, and he is a member of the North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C. bars. He was deputy attorney general for the Pennsylvania Justice Department, where he headed the southwest regional office of the Bureau of Consumer Protection. He was an attorney-adviser to two commissioners on the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and served as counsel to the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment of the U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on Energy and Commerce. While on the subcommittee, he worked on legislation on product liability, childhood vaccines, the FDA, medical malpractice and the Consumer Product Safety Commission. He also helped staff hearings on drug-pricing policies and smoking issues.
He received his JD from the University of Michigan and AB from the University of Pennsylvania.