Professor Michael Solimine presented a paper, Direct Democracy and Judicial Review: A Reappraisal, at a symposium on election law at the University of Kentucky College of Law. The symposium papers will be published in a forthcoming issue of the Kentucky Law Journal.

Professor Solimine made a presentation on class actions at the UC Law Downtown Teach-In on April 29, 2016.

Several of Professor Solimine’s books and articles were cited:

• Voting Rights and Election Law (2010) (with Michael Dimino & Bradley Smith), in Eugene D. Mazo, The Maturing of Election Law, in Election Law Stories (J. Douglas & E. Mazo, eds. 2016).
• Respecting State Courts: The Inevitability of Judicial Federalism (1999) (with James Walker), in Scott Dodson, The Gravitational Force of Federal Law, 164 U. Pa. L. Rev. 703 (2016).
• Judicial Influence: A Citation Analysis of Federal Courts of Appeals Judges, 27 J. Legal Stud. 271 (1998) (with William Landes & Lawrence Lessig), in Stewart Manley, Referencing Patterns at the International Criminal Court, 27 Eur. J. Int’l L. 191 (2016); and Hillary Greene & D. Daniel Sokol, Judicial Treatment of the Antitrust Treatise, 100 Iowa L. Rev. 2039 (2015).
• State Amici, Collective Action, and the Development of Federalism Doctrine, 46 Ga. L. Rev. 355 (2012), in Margaret H. Lemos, Privatizing Public Litigation, 104 Geo. L.J. 515 (2016).
• Diluting Justice on Appeal? An Examination 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 Mark A. Lemley & Shawn P. Miller, If You Can’t Beat ‘Em, Join ‘Em? How Sitting by Designation Affects Judicial Behavior, 94 Tex. L. Rev. 451 (2016).
• Shoring Up Article III: Legislative Court Doctrine in the Post-CFTC v. Schor Era, 68 B.U. L. Rev. 85 (1988) (with Richard Saphire), in Julian G. Ku, Why Ratification of the U.N. Convention of the Law of the Sea May Violate Article III of the U.S. Constitution, 25 Minn. J. Int’l L. 1 (2016); Rhett B. Larson, Adapting Human Rights, 26 Duke Envtl. L. & Pol’y F. 1 (2015); Andrew Chesley, Note, The Scope of the United States Judge Authority After Stern v. Marshall, 116 Colum. L. Rev. 757 (2016); and Hyungjoo Han, Comment, Redefining Non-Article III Adjudicatory Authority Post Stern v. Marshall, 18 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 725 (2015).
• Constitutional Litigation in Federal and State Courts: An Empirical Analysis of Judicial Parity, 10 Hastings Const. L. Q. 213 (1983)(with James Walker), in Scott Dodson, The Gravitational Force of Federal Law, 164 U. Pa. L. Rev. 703 (2016).
• The Solicitor General Unbound: Amicus Curiae Activism and Deference in the Supreme Court, 45 Ariz. St. L. J. 1183 (2013), in Kristen E. Eichensehr, Foreign Sovereigns as Friends of the Court, 102 Va. L. Rev. 289 (2016).
• Formalism, Pragmatism, and the Conservative Critique of the Eleventh Amendment, 101 Mich. L. Rev. 1463 (2003), in Fred Smith, Local Sovereign Immunity, 116 Colum. L. Rev. 409 (2016).
• Revitalizing Interlocutory Appeals in the Federal Courts, 58 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1165 (1990), in Fred Smith, Local Sovereign Immunity, 116 Colum. L. Rev. 409 (2016).
• The Next Word: Congressional Response to Supreme Court Statutory Decisions, 65 Temp. L. Rev. 425 (1992)(with James Walker), in Wesley Sze, Note, Did Brand X Mark the Spot? Brand X and the Scope of Agency Overrides of Judicial Decisions, 68 Stan. L. Rev. 235 (2016).
• 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 Tanya Pierce, Improving Predictability and Consistency in Class Action Tolling, 23 Geo. Mason L. Rev. 339 (2016).