^(*) Michael Asimow is Visiting Professor, Stanford Law School, and Professor Emeritus, UCLA Law School.  His email address is Asimow@law.stanford.edu.

Asimow is co-author of State and Federal Administrative Law (3d ed. 2009 with Ronald Levin) and California Administrative Law (Rutter Group, 2011, forthcoming).  He was the editor of A Guide to Federal Agency Adjudication (ABA 2003). He is a former chair of the ABA’s Section on Administrative Law and of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Administrative Law. 

Asimow’s published articles on administrative law include Inquisitorial Adjudication and Mass Justice in American Administrative Law  (Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice, forthcoming); The Merits of “Merits” Review:  A Comparative Look at the Australian Administrative Appeals Tribunal (with Jeffrey Lubbers), 28 Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice 261 (2010); The Many Faces of Administrative Adjudication in the European Union, 61 Admin. L. Rev. 131 (2009 with Lisl Dunlop); The Spreading Umbrella: Extending the APA’s Adjudication Provisions to All Hearings Required by Statute, 56 Admin. L. Rev. 1003 (2004); Guidance Documents in the States, 54 Admin. L. Rev. 631 (2002);Speed Bumps on the Road to Administrative Law Reform in California and Pennsylvania, 8 Widener J. of Pub. L. 229 (1999); Interim-Final Rules: Making Haste Slowly, 51 Admin. L. Rev. 703(1999).  He wrote several articles about South African administrative law including Administrative Law Under South Africa’s Final Constitution: The Need for an Administrative Justice Act, 113 South Afr. L. J. 613 (1996). 

Asimow also works in the area of Law and Popular Culture.  He is editor and co-author of Lawyers in Your Living Room: Law on Television (ABA Press, 2009) and co-author of Reel Justice: The Courtroom Goes to the Movies (2d ed. 2006) (with Paul Bergman) and Law and Popular Culture: A Course Book (2004) (with Shannon Mader).  He has published a number of articles on this subject including When The Lawyer Knows the Client is Guilty: Client Confessions in Legal Ethics, Popular Culture, and Literature, 18 So. Calif. Interdisciplinary L. J. 229 (2009, with Richard Weisberg); Popular Culture and the Adversary System, 40 Loyola LA L Rev. 653 (2007); and  Bad Lawyers in the Movies, 24 Nova L. Rev. 533 (2000).