14 Facts About Adam Liptak

Adam Liptak is the Supreme Court correspondent for The New York Times.

Adam Liptak was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism in 2009 for a series of articles that examined ways in which the American legal system differs from those of other developed nations.

Adam Liptak returned to Yale for a JD degree, graduating from Yale Law School in 1988.

Adam Liptak spent a decade advising The New York Times and the company's other newspapers, television stations and new media properties on defamation, privacy, news gathering and related issues and frequently litigated media and commercial cases.

Adam Liptak joined The New York Times news staff in 2002 as its national legal correspondent.

Adam Liptak covered the Supreme Court nominations of John Roberts and Samuel Alito; the investigation into the disclosure of the identity of Valerie Plame, an undercover Central Intelligence Agency operative; the trial of John Lee Malvo, one of the Washington-area snipers; judicial ethics; and various aspects of the criminal justice system, including capital punishment.

Adam Liptak was a member of the teams that examined the reporting of Jayson Blair and Judith Miller at The New York Times, in 2003 and 2005, respectively.

Adam Liptak followed Linda Greenhouse, who had covered the Supreme Court for nearly 30 years.

Adam Liptak has served as the chairman of the New York City Bar Association's communications and media law committee and was a member of the board of the Media Law Resource Center.

Adam Liptak has taught courses on media law and the Supreme Court at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, UCLA School of Law, University of Chicago Law School, University of Southern California's Gould School of Law, and Yale Law School.

Adam Liptak's work has appeared in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, The New York Observer, Business Week, and The American Lawyer.

Adam Liptak has written several law review articles on First Amendment topics.

Adam Liptak was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting in 2009, and he won the 2010 Scripps Howard Raymond Clapper Award for Washington Reporting for a five-part series on the Roberts Court.

Adam Liptak is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.