Published worksīlackwood's major work was a critique of George Buchanan's dialogue De Iure Regni apud Scotos, (1579), in which Buchanan had intended to justify to the forced abdication of Mary, Queen of Scots. According to his Histoire (1589), Blackwood visited Mary in England.
Blackwood became a practicing lawyer in the Parlement at Poitiers, an appointment in the gift of Mary, awarded in 1579 after the publication of his first polemic, the De Conjunctione Religionis et Imperii. In 1567-8 he was a rector of the University of Paris. Blackwood went to the University of Paris and then on to Toulouse to study civil law, with the direct patronage of Mary, Queen of Scots then in the French Court. Adam was orphaned at a young age and his education was sponsored by his great uncle, Robert Reid, Bishop of Orkney.
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