Andrew F. Popper

Andrew F. Popper is the author of more than 100 published books, articles, papers, and public documents. In the last few years, he has published two novels, Rediscovering Lone Pine (West, 2009) and Bordering on Madness: An American Land Use Tale (Carolina Academic Press, 2008). His current work-in-progress, a novel tentatively titled An American Market, is scheduled for release in early 2011.

He is also the author of three non-fiction books, Materials on Tort Reform (West, 2010); Administrative Law: A Contemporary Law Approach, 1st and 2nd Edition (West 2008, West 2010, with McKee, Varona, and Harter), and A Companion to Bordering on Madness: Cases, Scholarship, and Case Studies (Carolina Academic Press, 2008, with Avitabile and Salkin). Materials on Tort Reform sets out both sides of the debate over the current system of civil justice and provides a fictional narrative of a complex personal injury claim that raises multiple tort reform questions.

He has served as a consumer rights advocate in a number of different settings. He has represented the Consumers Union of America, testified more than 30 times before various Congressional committees, and authored amicus curiae briefs before the United States Supreme Court.

He is a full professor at American University’s Washington College of Law where he teaches torts, administrative law, government litigation, and advanced administrative law. He was associate dean of the law school between 1988 and 1995. He is the 2010 recipient of the American University Scholar-Teacher of the Year Award and the 2010 Baldwin-Wallace Outstanding Alumni Award. He has won university awards for outstanding teaching and other professional accomplishments and was the recipient of the American Bar Association (ABA) Robert B. McKay Award for Excellence in Tort Law.

He is the faculty advisor to the Administrative Law Review, liaison to the ABA Section on Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice, and director of the law school's Integrated Curriculum Program. He has served as chair of the Administrative Law Section of the Federal Bar Association and has been an accreditation site visitor for the ABA and AALS, participating in the accreditation review of twelve law schools. Prior to coming to the Washington College of Law, he held an endowed chair at the University of Denver, School of Law.