Michael published Congress, the Solicitor General, and the Path of Reapportionment Litigation, 62 Case Wes. Res. L. Rev. 1109 (2012), a contribution to a symposium on the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s reapportionment decision in Baker v. Carr (1962).
Michael attended the Association of American Law Schools Faculty Recruiting Conference in Washington, DC, in mid-October as a member of UC Law’s Faculty Appointments Committee.
Several of Michael’s publications were cited:
- Respecting State Courts: The Inevitability of Judicial Federalism (Greenwood 1999) (with James Walker), in Wayne A. Logan, Constitutional Cacophony: Federal Circuit Splits and the Fourth Amendment, 65 Vand. L. Rev. 1137 (2012);
- Ohio Civil Rules Practice (3d ed. 2003) (with John McCormac), in Schrader v. Schrader, 2012 WL 3832492 (Ohio App. 5th Dist. 2012);
- Forum-Selection Clauses and the Privatization of Procedure, 25 Cornell Int’l L.J. 51 (1992), in Zheng Sophia Tang, Effectiveness of Exclusive Jurisdiction Clauses in the Chinese Courts-A Pragmatic Study, 61 Int’l & Comp. L.Q. 459 (2012);
- Newsmagazine Coverage of the U.S. Supreme Court, 57 Journalism Q. 661 (1980), in Michael Evans & Shanna Pearson-Merkowitz, Perpetuating the Myth of the Culture War Court? Issue Attention in Newspaper Coverage of U.S. Supreme Court Nominations, 40 Am. Pol. Res. 1026 (2012);
- Congress, Separation of Powers, and Standing, 59 Case W. Res. L. Rev. 1023 (2009), in Bradford C. Mank, Informational Standing After Summers, 39 B.C. Envtl. Aff. L. Rev. 1 (2012); and in Bradford C. Mank, Judges Posner’s “practical” Thory of Standing: Closer to Justice Breyer’s Approach to Standing Than to Justice Scalia’s, 50 Hous. L. Rev. 71 (2012);
- The Three-Judge District Court in Voting Rights Litigation, 30 U. Mich. J.L. Reform 79 (1996), in Richard L. Hasen, Anticipatory Overrulings, Invitations, Time Bombs, and Inadvertence: How Supreme Court Justices Move the Law, 61 Emory L.J. 779 (2012); and in James A. Gardner & Guy-Uriel Charles, Election Law in the American Political System (Aspen 2012);
- Diluting Justice on Appeal? An Analysis of the Use of District Judges Sitting by Designation on the United States Courts of Appeals, 28 U. Mich. J. L. Reform 351 (1995) (with Richard B. Saphire), in Todd C. Peppers, et al., Random Chance or Loaded Dice: The Politics of Judicial Designation, 10 U.N.H. L. Rev. 69 (2012);
- Supreme Court Monitoring of the United States Courts of Appeals En Banc, 9 Sup. Ct. Econ. Rev. 171 (2001) (with Tracey George), in Todd C. Peppers, et al., Random Chance or Loaded Dice: The Politics of Judicial Designation, 10 U.N.H. L. Rev. 69 (2012), and in Wayne A. Logan, Constitutional Cacophony: Federal Circuit Splits and the Fourth Amendment, 65 Vand. L. Rev. 1137 (2012). ;
- Revitalizing Interlocutory Appeals in the Federal Courts, 58 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1165 (1990), in John E. Lopathka, Class Action Professional Objectors: What to Do About Them?, 39 Fla. St. U. L. Rev. 865 (2012), and Joseph Strube, Comment, An Early Roll of the Dice: Appeal Under Conditional Finality in Federal Court, 50 Hous. L. Rev. 221 (2012);
- Judicial Influence: A Citation Analysis of Federal Courts of Appeals Judges, 27 J. Legal Stud. 271 (1998) (with William Landes & Lawrence Lessig), in Rohit Aggarwal, et al., Blog, Blogger, and the Firm: Can Negative Employee Posts Lead to Positive Outcomes?, 23 Infor. Sys. Res. 306 (2012), and in Keramet Ann Reiter, The Most Restrictive Alternative: A Litigation History of Solitary Confinement in U.S. Prisons, 1960-2006, 57 Studies in Law, Politics and Society 69 (2012);
- Interstate Recognition of Same-Sex Marriage, the Public Policy Exception, and Clear Statements of Extraterritorial Effect, 41 Cal. West. Int’l L.J. 105 (2010), in Jessica Portmess, Comment, Until the Plenary Power Do Us Part: Judicial Scrutiny of the Defense of Marriage Act in Immigration After Flores-Villar, 61 Am. U. L. Rev. 1825 (2012); and
- Judicial Federalism After Bush v. Gore: Some Observations, 23 Just. Sys. J. 45 (2002), in Willy E. Rice, Allegedly “Biased,” “Intimidating,” and “Incompetent” State Court Judges and the Questionable Removal of State Law Class Actions to Purportedly “Impartial” and “Competent” Federal Courts-A Historical Perspective and an Empirical Analysis of Class Action Dispositions in Federal and State Trial Courts, 1925-2011, 3 Wm. & Mary Bus. L. Rev. 419 (2012);
- Supreme Court Monitoring of the U.S. Courts of Appeals En Banc, 9 Sup. Ct. Econ. Rev. 171 (2001) (with Tracey George), in Wayne A. Logan, Constitutional Cacophony: Federal Circuit Splits and the Fourth Amendment, 65 Vand. L. Rev. 1137 (2012); and
- The Future of Parity, 46 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 1457 (2005), in Wayne A. Logan, Constitutional Cacophony: Federal Circuit Splits and the Fourth Amendment, 65 Vand. L. Rev. 1137 (2012).