On November 14, Michael testified before the Judicial Branch and Administration Committee of the Ohio Constitution Modernization Commission, on the topic of selection and election of state judges in Ohio.

One of MIchael’s books and several of his articles were cited.

• Respecting State Courts: The Inevitability of Judicial Federalism (1999) (with James L. Walker), in Alden Anderson, Comment, The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act: Hacking Into the Authorization Debate, 53 Jurimetrics J. 447 (2013);
• The Quiet Revolution in Personal Jurisdiction, 73 Tulane L. Rev. 1 (1998), in Ian J. Drake, Tort Reform and American Political Economy, 2011 Proc. Ohio Acad. Hist. 29 [published in 2013];
• Due Process and En Banc Decisionmaking, 48 Ariz. L. Rev. 325 (2006), in Jeremy D. Horowitz, Not Taking “No” for an Answer: An Empirical Assessment of Dissents from Denial of Rehearing En Banc, 102 Geo. L.J. 59 (2013);
• Ideology and En Banc Review, 67 N.C. L. Rev. 29 (1988), in Jeremy D. Horowitz, Not Taking “No” for an Answer: An Empirical Assessment of Dissents from Denial of Rehearing En Banc, 102 Geo. L.J. 59 (2013);
• Supreme Court Monitoring of the United States Courts of Appeals En Banc, 9 Sup. Ct. Econ. Rev. 171 (2001), in Jeremy D. Horowitz, Not Taking “No” for an Answer: An Empirical Assessment of Dissents from Denial of Rehearing En Banc, 102 Geo. L.J. 59 (2013); and 
• Forum-Selection Clauses and the Privatization of Procedure, 25 Cornell Int’l L.J. 51 (1992), in Aaron D. Simowitz, A U.S. Perspective on Forum Shopping, Ethical Obligations, and International Commercial Arbitration, in Forum Shopping in the International Commercial Arbitration Context (Sellier European Law Publishers, Franco Ferrari, ed., 2013).