Adam Zimmerman is a Professor of Law at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, where he teaches complex litigation, administrative law and tort law. Professor Zimmerman’s scholarship explores the way class action attorneys, regulatory agencies and other public officials provide justice to large groups of people through overlapping systems of public and private law. His recent articles have been accepted for publication in the Columbia Law Review, Duke Law Journal, New York University Law Review,University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Virginia Law Review, and the Yale Law Journal. In 2016, the federal government adopted Zimmerman’s recommendations to permit class actions in administrative hearings based on findings that appear in his recent article in the Yale Law Journal, Inside the Agency Class Action, 126 Yale L.J. 1634 (2017).
The Supreme Court’s recent decision in Jennings v. Rodriguez raised the momentous question of whether the government can indefinitely detain people without a hearing. If the government has its way, the case also may close the courthouse doors to a wide array of class actions long used to challenge unlawful government action. In Jennings, the…
