{{Short description|American legal scholar (born 1967)}} {{Infobox person | name = Adam Winkler | image = Professor Adam Winkler.jpg | imagesize = | caption = Adam Winkler | birthname = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1967|7|25}} | birth_place = Los Angeles, U.S. | death_date = | death_place = | othername = | occupation = Attorney<br />Law professor | years_active = | education = Georgetown University (BS)<br/>New York University (JD)<br/>University of California Los Angeles (MA) | spouse = | domestic_partner = | parents = Irwin Winkler | children = | website = {{Official website}} | awards = }}
'''Adam Winkler''' (born July 25, 1967) is the Connell Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law. He is the author of ''We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights''<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=We the Corporations|url=https://wwnorton.com/books/9780871407122|access-date=2023-02-02 |website=wwnorton.com |language=en}}</ref> and ''Gunfight: The Battle over the Right to Bear Arms in America''.<ref name="Winkler, Adam {{!}} UCLA Law">{{Cite web|title=Winkler, Adam {{!}} UCLA Law|url=https://law.ucla.edu/faculty/faculty-profiles/adam-winkler|access-date=2020-11-21|website=law.ucla.edu|language=en}}</ref> His work has been cited in judicial opinions, including in Supreme Court cases pertaining to the First and Second Amendments.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Farris|first1=Nick|last2=Aggerbeck|first2=Valerie|last3=McNevin|first3=Megan|author4-link=Gregory Sisk|last4=Sisk|first4=Gregory C.|date=2016-08-18|title=Judicial Impact of Law School Faculties|url=https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=2826048|language=en|location=Rochester, NY|ssrn=2826048}}</ref>
==Early life and education==
Winkler, born and raised in Los Angeles, is the youngest son of film producer Irwin Winkler. As a child, he had small acting parts in movies, including Martin Scorsese's ''New York, New York'' (1977).
He holds a Bachelor of Science in foreign service from Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, a Juris Doctor from New York University School of Law, and a master's degree in political science from UCLA, where he studied under Karen Orren.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0935187/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t14 | title=Adam David Winkler | work=IMDB | accessdate=30 June 2017}}</ref>
==Professional career== Winkler practiced with Howard Weitzman and represented Michael Jackson in his defense against charges of sexual assault.<ref name="Bio">[http://www.law.ucla.edu/faculty/all-faculty-profiles/professors/Pages/adam-winkler.aspx "Faculty Profiles > Full-Time Faculty > Adam Winkler"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140507055606/http://www.law.ucla.edu/faculty/all-faculty-profiles/professors/Pages/adam-winkler.aspx |date=2014-05-07 }}. UCLA School of Law.</ref> He also served as a law clerk to judge David Thompson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from 1995 to 1996.
Winkler was the John M. Olin fellow at the University of Southern California Law School from 2001 to 2002. He has taught at UCLA School of Law since 2002, receiving tenure in 2007.<ref name="Bio"/>
==Scholarship== left|thumb|We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights Winkler's book ''We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights''<ref name=":0" /> was a finalist for the 2018 National Book Award for Nonfiction, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the American Bar Association's Silver Gavel Award, the California Book Award, and received the Scribes Book Award. The book describes the corporate rights movement: the two-hundred year effort by business corporations to achieve the same constitutional rights as ordinary people, culminating in the Supreme Court's ruling in Citizens United v. FEC.<ref name=":0"/> ''We the Corporations'' was listed as a Best or Notable Book of 2018 by the New York Times,<ref>{{Cite news|title=100 Notable Books of 2018|work=The New York Times |date=19 November 2018 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/19/books/review/100-notable-books.html|access-date=2023-02-12 |language=en}}</ref> the Washington Post,<ref>{{Cite web|title=100 Notable Books of 2018|url=https://www.yearendlists.com/2018/washington-post-100-notable-books-of-2018|access-date=2023-02-12|website=yearendlists.com |date=13 November 2018 |language=en}}</ref> the Economist,<ref>{{Cite news|title=The Economist's books of the year|url=https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2018/12/01/the-economists-books-of-the-year|access-date=2023-02-12|newspaper=The Economist |language=en}}</ref> the San Francisco Chronicle,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Year in review: The best books of 2018|url=https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/books/year-in-review-the-best-books-of-2018|access-date=2023-02-12|website=datebook.sfchronicle.com|language=en}}</ref> and the Seattle Times.<ref>{{Cite web|title=50 best nonfiction books of 2018|url=https://www.seattletimes.com/explore/shop-northwest/50-notable-works-of-nonfiction-in-2018/|access-date=2023-02-12|website=seattletimes.com|date=7 December 2018 |language=en}}</ref>
Winkler's writing on the right to bear arms, which recognizes both the individual right to possess firearms and the legitimacy of effective gun control, has been cited by the U.S. Supreme Court and numerous lower courts.<ref>''District of Columbia v. Heller'', 554 U.S. 570, 691 (2008) (Breyer, J., dissenting); ''McDonald v. Chicago'', 561 U.S. 742, 900 (2010) (Breyer, J., dissenting); ''U.S. v. Yancey'', 621 F.3d 681, 685 (2010); ''U.S. v. McCane'', 573 F.3d 1037, 1048 (2009); ''Wilson v. State'', 207 P.3d 565, 585 (2009).</ref> His book ''Gunfight: The Battle over the Right to Bear Arms in America'' details the history of the right to bear arms and efforts to balance gun rights with gun safety laws in the United States since the country's founding.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Gunfight|url=https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393345834|access-date=2020-11-21|website=wwnorton.com|language=en}}</ref>
Winkler has written on legal history topics, such as the origins of campaign finance law,<ref>Adam Winkler, ''"Other People's Money": Corporations, Agency Costs, and Campaign Finance Law'', 92 Geo. L.J. 871 (2004)</ref> the women's suffrage movement,<ref>Adam Winkler, ''A Revolution Too Soon: Woman Suffragists and the "Living Constitution"'', 76 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 1456 (2001).</ref> and the regulation of political parties.<ref>Adam Winkler, ''Voters' Rights and Parties' Wrongs: Early Political Party Regulation in the State Courts, 1886-1915'', 100 Colum. L. Rev. 873 (2000).</ref> He has also done quantitative research on constitutional law issues, including a study which challenged the legal maxim that strict scrutiny is "'strict' in theory, but fatal in fact," finding that federal courts upheld laws when applying the test in approximately 25% of cases.<ref>Winkler's article has been cited over 300 times by works in numerous prestigious journals, including Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Journal, and Stanford Law Review to name a few. See, e.g., Richard H. Fallon, Jr., ''Constitutionally Forbidden Legislative Intent'', 130 Harv. L. Rev. 523, 576 (2016); Abbe R. Gluck, ''Intersystemic Statutory Interpretation: Methodology as Law and the Erie Doctrine'', 120 Yale L.J. 1898, 1957 (2011); Ian F. Haney Lopez, ''"A Nation of Minorities": Race, Ethnicity, and Reactionary Colorblindness'', 59 Stan. L. Rev. 985, 988 (2007).</ref><ref name="W2006">Adam Winkler, ''Fatal in Theory and Strict in Fact: An Empirical Analysis of Strict Scrutiny in the Federal Courts'', 59 Vand. L. Rev. 793 (2006).</ref><ref>Adam Winkler, ''Free Speech Federalism'', 108 Mich. L. Rev. 153 (2009).</ref> Along with historian Leonard Levy and UCLA School of Law professor Kenneth Karst, Winkler edited the six-volume ''Encyclopedia of the American Constitution''.<ref>''Encyclopedia of the American Constitution'' (Leonard W. Levy et al. eds., 2d ed. 2000).</ref>
== Awards and honors == Winkler has won awards and honors for his work including the Scribes Book Award. His book ''We the Corporations'' also made him a finalist for the 2018 National Book Award for Nonfiction, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the American Bar Association's Silver Gavel Award, the California Book Award.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Winkler, Adam {{!}} UCLA Law|url=https://law.ucla.edu/faculty/faculty-profiles/adam-winkler|access-date=2021-01-26|website=law.ucla.edu|language=en}}</ref> In 2018, his alma mater, NYU, awarded him its Law Teaching Award, which is given to teachers for their scholarship and dedication to the education and training of law students.<ref>{{Cite web|title=NYU Law welcomed alumni back to campus for Reunion 2018 {{!}} NYU School of Law|url=https://www.law.nyu.edu/news/reunion-2018-matthew-johnson-dennis-jacobs-terry-maroney-adam-winkler-ria-tabacco-mar|access-date=2020-11-21|website=www.law.nyu.edu|language=en}}</ref> Winkler also currently serves on the board of directors at the Brennan Center for Justice.<ref name="Winkler, Adam {{!}} UCLA Law"/>
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==External links== {{Wikiquote}} * {{C-SPAN|63589}} * {{Official website}}
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