Michael attended the annual meeting of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS)  in New Orleans, and there presented a paper, “Interjurisdictional Competition, Cooperation, and Facilitating the Choice of Law Market,” as part of a panel at the program sponsored by the AALS Section on Conflict of Laws.

Several of Michael’s articles were cited:

• Institutional Process, Agenda Setting, and the Development of Election Law on the Supreme Court, 68 Ohio St. L.J. 767 (2007), in Joshua A. Douglas, Procedural Fairness in Election Contests, 88 Ind. L.J. 1 (2013);
• Interstate Recognition of Same-Sex Marriage, the Public Policy Exception, and Clear Statements of Extraterritorial Effect, 41 Cal. Wes. Int’l L.J. 105 (2010), in Mae Kuykendall, Equality Federalism: A Solution to the Marriage Wars, 15 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 377 (2012);
• Revitalizing Interlocutory Appeals in the Federal Courts, 58 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1165 (1990), in MacKenzie M. Horton, Note, Stop in the Name of Discretion: The Judicial “Myth” of the District Court’s Absolute and Unreviewable Discretion in Section 1292(b) Certification, 64 Baylor L. Rev. 976 (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. Ref. 351 (1995)(with Richard Saphire), in William R. Richman & William L. Reynolds, The United States Courts of Appeals in Crisis (Oxford University Press 2013);
• Rethinking Feminist Judging, 70 Ind. L.J. 891 (1995)(with Susan Wheatley), in Laura Moyer, Rethinking Critical Mass in the Federal Appellate Courts, 34 J. Women, Pol. & Pol’y 49 (2013); and

• Supreme Court Monitoring of State Courts in the Twenty-First Century, 35 Ind. L. Rev. 335 (2002), in George Padis, Student Author, Arbitration Under Siege: Reforming Consumer and Employment Arbitration and Class Actions, 91 Tex. L. Rev. 665 (2013).