Gerald L. Adams III
Gerald Adams is a research assistant professor at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School. He is also affiliated with the Center for Technology, Innovation & Competition at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and is a senior scholar of innovation policy at the International Center for Law & Economics.
His research focuses on law and technology, with particular emphasis on telecommunications, digital platforms, antitrust, broadband regulation, emerging communications networks, and the regulation of new technologies.
Before joining George Mason University, Adams was a George Sharswood Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School. Before entering academia, he advised on domestic and international regulatory matters for SpaceX’s Starlink satellite constellation. Earlier, he was a summer associate at Hogan Lovells, interned in the office of Federal Communications Commission Commissioner Geoffrey Starks, served as a research assistant on technology policy and blockchain regulation, worked as a patent engineer at Holland & Hart, and was a research fellow at the Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics, where he studied quantum-computing networking systems. He also worked as a research scientist in laboratory and commercial settings before entering law.
Adams was a Levy Scholar and received the Herbert F. Schwartz Award for Distinguished Achievement in Law and Technology.
He earned a J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School. He also earned a bachelor’s, cum laude, from the University of Utah, studying applied mathematics, economics, and physics.
Jeffrey Westling & Gerald L. Adams III
Oct 07, 2026
America’s wireless future is on hold, pending another study. Federal agencies control much of the spectrum needed to build it—and the process for opening those frequencies rewards incumbents for taking their time. Sustaining U.S. leadership in wireless technology requires more spectrum—the radio frequencies that carry wireless signals—for fifth- and sixth-generation mobile networks (5G and 6G), ... Licensed to Wait: The High Cost of Spectrum Delay
Kristian Stout & Gerald L. Adams III
Jun 08, 2026
Europe’s latest space policy has a simple theory: To build a champion, you must first clear the field. The European Commission’s newly adopted proposal to reallocate the 2 GHz mobile-satellite-service (MSS) band—a slice of radio spectrum used for satellite communications—would reserve most of that spectrum for European operators. The same proposal would limit non-EU militaries ... The EU’s Bid to Nationalize Space
