Theory and Writing
Adam Daley Wilson’s theoretical work spans art theory, constitutional theory, citizenship, democratic institutions, public questions, human judgment, and the preservation of human meaning in an age of AI.
His writing develops alongside his conceptual art and appellate practice. Across these fields, he experiments with concepts and methods concerning how humans create meaning, participate in civic life, structure constitutional systems, ask public questions, exercise judgment, and preserve distinctly human forms of experience and responsibility.
Current writing includes work on citizen methods, artist-placed and citizen-placed public questions, answerability in art and law, constitutional democracy, and the role of human judgment in an age increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence.
Adam Daley Wilson holds a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, a J.D. from Stanford Law School, and served as a judicial law clerk to the Hon. Franklin S. Van Antwerpen of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He practiced antitrust and appellate law at leading Am Law 100 firms including Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in San Francisco and Crowell & Moring in Washington, DC.
Examples of pre-publication papers in Elsevier’s Social Science Research Network (SSRN) repositiory:
The Citizen Methods: What a Citizen Can Do
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=7314184
The Citizen Questions: What Can Government Still Do?
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=7456359
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4913371
(SSRN, the Social Science Research Network, is an open-access (not peer reviewed) scholarly pre-print and working-paper platform founded in 1994 used by academics and research institutions. SSRN is part of Elsevier, one of the world’s leading academic publishing and research-information companies. SSRN provides public paper archives, download and citation metrics, and scholarly dissemination of papers before journal publication.
