Michael was a drafter of and signatory to amicus curiae briefs of law professors in recent Ohio Supreme Court (ProgressOhio v. JobsOhio) and U.S. Supreme Court (Halliburton Co. v. Erica P. John Fund, Inc.) decisions. In each case a majority of the Court adopted the position advocated by the briefs.

Several of Michael’s articles were cited.

• The Next Word: Congressional Response to Supreme Court Statutory Decisions, 65 Temp. L. Rev. 425  (1992)(with James L. Walker), in Richard H. Pildes, Institutional Formalism and Realism in Constitutional and Public Law, 2013 Sup. Ct. Rev. 1; and in Matthew R. Christiansen & William N. Eskridge, Jr., Congressional Overrides of Supreme Court Statutory Interpretation Decisions, 1967-2011, 92 Tex. L. Rev. 1317 (2014);
• The Future of Parity, 46 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 1457 (2005), in Richard H. Pildes, Institutional Formalism and Realism in Constitutional and Public Law, 2013 Sup. Ct. Rev. 1;
• Supreme Court Monitoring of the United States Courts of Appeals En Banc, 9 Sup. Ct. Econ. Rev. 171 (2001)(with Tracey George), in Stephen M. Shapiro, et al., Supreme Court Practice (Bloomberg BNA, 10th ed. 2014);
• The Supreme Court and the DIG: An Empirical and Institutional Analysis, 2005 Wis. L. Rev. 1421 (with Rafael Gely), in Stephen M. Shapiro, et al., Supreme Court Practice (Bloomberg BNA, 10th ed. 2014);
• Diluting Justice on Appeal?: An Analysis of the Use of District Judges Sitting by Designation on the United States Courts of Appeal, 28 U. Mich. J. L. Ref. 351 (1995)(with Richard Saphire), in Jeremy W. Beck, Restructuring the Federal Circuit, 3 NYU J. Intell. Prop. & Ent. L. 197 (2014);
• Congress, Separation of Powers, and Standing, 59 Case. W. Res. L. Rev. 1023 (2009), in A.G. Harmon, Interested, But Not Injured: The Compromised Status of Qui Tam Plaintiffs Under the Amended False Claims Act and the Return of the Citizen Suit, 43 Pub. Cont. L.J. 423 (2014);
• Constitutional Litigation in Federal and State Courts: An Empirical Analysis of Judicial Parity, 10 Hastings Const. L.Q. 213 (1983)(with James Walker), in Sam F. Halabi, Abstention, Parity, and Treaty Rights: How Federal Courts Regulate Jurisdiction Under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, __ Berkeley J. Int’l L. 144 (2014);
• Deciding to Decide: Class Action Certification and Interlocutory Review by the United States Courts of Appeal Under Rule 23(f), 41 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 1531 (2000)(with Christine Oliver Hines), in Michael E. Harriss, Note, Rebutting the Roberts Court: Reinventing the Collateral Order Doctrine through Judicial Decision-Making, 91 Wash. U. L. Rev. 721 (2014).
• Newsmagazine Coverage of the Supreme Court, 57 Journalism Q. 661 (1980), in Kevin G. Buckler, The Newsworthiness of U.S. Supreme Court Criminal Procedure Cases (1994-2010 Terms): Assessing the Effects of Case Salience and Case Complexity Across Elite and Populace Press, 39 Crim. Just. Rev. 140 (2014); and
• Supreme Court Monitoring of State Courts in the Twenty-First Century, 35 Ind. L. Rev. 355 (2002), in Cristina M. Rodríguez, Uniformity and Integrity in Immigration Law: Lessons from the Decisions of Justice (and Judge) Sotomayor, Yale L. J. Forum (March 24, 2014).