Michael Asimow and Ron Levin have written an administrative law casebook called State and Federal Administrative Law which is now in its fifth edition and has an extensive teacher’s manual.  This book is different from other law school teaching books because it includes extensive material on state and local administrative law along with federal law.  State and local law offers interesting contrasts with federal practice.  And the book has practical value because law students are more likely to pursue a career in state or local regulation (either on the government or private side) than to involved with federal agencies.  

Michael has been a consultant for the Administrative conference of the United States on a number of occasions.  One recent consulting job concerned the creation of best practices for federal adjudicating agencies not covered by the Administrative Procedure Act.  This study resulted in ACUS recommendation 2016-4  and a book published by ACUS entitled Federal Administrative Adjudication Outside the Administrative Procedure Act (2019).  It also led to an article  “Best Practices for Evidentiary Hearings Outside the Administrative Procedure Act,”  26 George Mason L. Rev. 923 (2018). A later ACUS study concerns the procedures by which federal agencies exercise prosecutorial discretion. It is published as an article “Greenlighting Administrative Prosecution,” 75 Admin. L. Rev. 227 (2023).

Michael is currently engaged in a study for ACUS about the fair procedures in informal adjudication. It concerns best practices for conducting adjudication when the agency is not required to conduct an evidentiary hearing.