From 2004, Adamovich acted, on an honorary basis, as an advisor on matters of constitutional law to Presidents Heinz Fischer and Alexander Van der Bellen.

[1] His father was Ludwig Adamovich Sr., a noted legal scholar and a member of the Austrian Constitutional Court at the time.

[2] The family was conservative; the elder Adamovich had been educated at the Jesuit Kalksburg College, supported the Christian Social Party, and would later become minister of justice for the Austrofascist government of Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg.

[2] He eventually chose law instead because he feared that his poor talent for mathematics would make it impossible for him to succeed as a student of medicine.

[5][6][7] In his 2011 autobiography, Adamovich freely admits that his career was greatly helped by his father's reputation and, especially in its early years, by his family's political connections to the Austrian People's Party.

[1] In 2004, Adamovich accepted an invitation of then-President Heinz Fischer to join the Presidential Chancellery, on an honorary basis, as an advisor on matters of constitutional law.

It was Fred Sinowatz, another Social Democrat and Kreisky's successor as chancellor, who nominated Adamovich for president of the Constitutional Court later the same year.

[7][15][16] In 2008, then-Minister of the Interior Günther Platter asked Adamovich to chair an inquest into the police investigation of the abduction of Natascha Kampusch.

Critics alleged that Kampusch would have found been quickly and easily had investigators not committed a number of inexplicable unforced errors.

[27] Together with Bernd-Christian Funk, Gerhart Holzinger, and Stefan Leo Frank, Adamovich is the author of Österreichisches Staatsrecht, a four-volume general introduction to Austrian constitutional law.