Adam Ian Muchmore

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.