Michael’s article, The Solicitor General Unbound: Amicus Curiae Activism and Deference in the Supreme Court, has been accepted for publication in the Arizona State Law Journal.  Michael also presented the paper to UC law students as part of the Brown Bag lunches sponsored by SLEC.

Several of Michael’s articles were cited in March:

• Judicial Influence: A Citation Analysis of Federal Courts of Appeals Judges, 27 J. Legal Stud. 271 (1998)(with William M. Landes & Lawrence Lessig), in Lee Epstein, William M. Landes & Richard A. Posner, The Behavior of Federal Judges: A Theoretical and Empirical Study of Rational Choice (Harvard University Press 2013); in Stepen J. Choi, How Well Do Measures of Judicial Ability Predict Performance? A Case Study of Using Securities Class Actions, 33 Int’l Rev. L. & Econ. 37 (2013); in Jordi Blanes i Vidal & Clare Leaven, Social Interactions and the Content of Legal Opinions, 29 J. L. Econ. & Organ. 78 (2013); in Ryan Whalen, Modeling Annual Supreme Court Influence: The Role of Citation Practices and Judicial Tenure in Determining Precedent Network Growth, 424 Complex Networks: Studies in Computational Intelligence 169 (2013); and in Greg Goelzhauser, Accountability and Judicial Performance: Evidence from Case Dispositions, 33 Just. Sys. J. 249 (2012);
• State Amici, Collective Action, and the Development of Federalism Doctrine, 46 Ga. L. Rev. 355 (2012), in Erin O’Hara O’Connor & Larry Ribstein, Preemption and Choice-of-Law Coordination, 111 Mich. L. Rev. 647 (2013), and in Christopher J. Wahl, Comment, Keeping Heller Out of the Home: Homeowners Association and the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, 15 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 1003 (2013);
• Ideology and En Banc Review, 67 N.C. L. Rev. 29 (1998), in Marin K. Levy, Judicial Attention as a Scarce Resource: A Preliminary Defense of How Judges Allocate Time Across Cases in the Federal Courts of Appeals, 81 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 401 (2013);
• 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. Ref. 351 (1995)(with Richard Saphire), in Roger J. Miner, “Dealing with the Appellate Caseload Crisis”: The Report of the Federal Courts Study Committee Revisited, 57 N.Y.L.S. L. Rev. 517 (2012-13);
• Deciding to Decide: Class Action Certification and Interlocutory Review by the United States Courts of Appeals Under Rule 23(f), 41 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 1531 (2000)(with Christine Oliver Hines), in Shay Lavie, The Malleability of Collective Litigation, 88 Notre Dame L. Rev. 697 (2012);
• State Court Regulation of Offers of Judgment and Its Lessons for Federal Practice, 13 Ohio St. J. Dispute Res. 51 (1997)(with Bryan Pacheco), in Jacob Kreutzen, The Difficulties of Encouraging Cooperation in a Zero-Sum Game, 65 Me. L. Rev. 147 (2012); and
• Federalism, Liberty, and State Constitutional Law, 23 Ohio N.U. L. Rev. 1457 (1997) (with James L. Walker), in Christopher J. Wahl, Comment, Keeping Heller Out of the Home: Homeowners Association and the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, 15 U. Pa. L. Const. L. 1003 (2013).