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.

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 Administrative Tribunal of Quebec, the Tompkins County Human Rights Commission, 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.

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 Editor-in-Chief of the McGill Law Journal/Revue de droit de McGill, Managing Editor of Eighteenth-Century Studies, member of the Editorial Board of Diacritics: A Review of Contemporary Criticism, and on the editorial teams of Contours, the McGill Journal of Dispute Resolution/Revue de règlement des différends de McGill, the McGill Journal of Law and Health/Revue de droit et santé de McGill, the McGill Journal of Sustainable Development Law/Revue de droit du développement durable de McGill, and Rooted: A Publication on Indigenous Law.

He received dual law degrees from McGill University, 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 studies at the Cornell Law School and Sorbonne Law School Paris Institute and Geneva Graduate Institute.