Adam Schoene is a Lifetime Member of the Franco-American Centre, where he has served on the Board of Trustees and as its Secretary, on the Board of Incorporators, as a member of the Nomination Committee, and as co-organizer of Prêt-à-Parler Université.

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He has held faculty, research, teaching, service, editorial, translation, administrative, or professional roles at Dartmouth College, the University of New Hampshire, McGill University, the University at Buffalo, Columbia University, Cornell University, Harvard University, Tufts University, Swiss Semester, the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, the Caribbean Philosophical Association, the Rousseau Association, Special Olympics, Concordia Language Villages, the French Library, the International Language Center, the Institute for Global Maritime Studies, the Center for International Environmental Law, and WilmerHale LLP.

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His work appears in the Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Law and Literature, Eighteenth-Century Studies, The French Review, George Sand Studies, The Journal of North African Studies, Law and Humanities, Lumen, Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, and in a range of edited volumes. He has co-edited two books with Honoré Champion and translated one with Columbia University Press. He served as a member of the Editorial Board of Diacritics: A Review of Contemporary Criticism, as Managing Editor of Eighteenth-Century Studies, and on the editorial teams of the McGill Law Journal/Revue de droit de McGill, McGill Journal of Dispute Resolution/Revue de règlement des différends de McGill, McGill Journal of Law and Health/Revue de droit et santé de McGill, and McGill Journal of Sustainable Development Law/Revue de droit du développement durable de McGill.

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He received a PhD in Romance Studies from Cornell University, degrees in French, International Relations, and Law and Diplomacy from Tufts University and its Fletcher School, and pursued global legal studies at the Cornell Law School and Sorbonne Law School Institute of International and Comparative Law in Paris, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies/Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement in Geneva, and Faculty of Law/Faculté de Droit of McGill University in Montreal.