 From 2003 to 2015 the Supreme Court of Canada 
"constitutionalized" those rights and in doing so extensively cited Adams's work.For his human rights scholarship and activism, he was appointed Ariel F. Sallows Chair of Human Rights on the Faculty of Law at the University of Saskatchewan for 2009-2010.In 2015 Adams was named a Fellow of the U.S.-based Labor and Employment Relations Association for "contributions of unusual distinction to the field and profession."