Faculty News

Michael published the 2012 Supplement to Voting Rights and Election Law (LexisNexis 2010)(with Michael Dimino & Bradley Smith).

Michael presented The Solicitor General Unbound: Amicus Curiae Activism and Deference in the Supreme Court on June 13 as part of UC Law’s Summer 2012 Faculty Workshop Series.

Several of Michael’s publications were cited:

• Competitive Federalism and Interstate Recognition of Marriage, 32 Creighton L. Rev. 83 (1998), in William Baude, Beyond DOMA: Choice of State Law in Federal Statutes, 64 Stan. L. Rev. 1371 (2012); in Stephanie D. Myott, Student Author, The United States Military and Its Anti-Gay Discriminatory Policies: Impact on the Elderly LGBT Community, 20 Elder L.J. 199 (2012); and in Steve Sanders, The Constitutional Right to (Keep Your) Same-Sex Marriage, 110 Mich. L. Rev. 1421 (2012);
• Congress, Ex Parte Young, and the Fate of the Three-Judge District Court, 70 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 101 (2008), in Richard H. Fallon, Jr., et al., Hart and Wechsler’s The Federal Courts and the Federal System (Foundation Press Supp. 2012);
• 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 Michael Dore, Law of Toxic Torts (Clark Boardman Callaghan  Supp. 2012);
• Forum-Selection Clauses and the Privatization of Procedure, 25 Cornell Intl. L.J. 51 (1992), in Jay Brudz & Jonathan M. Redgrave, Using Contract Terms To Get Ahead of Prospective Ediscovery Costs and Burdens in Commercial Litigation, 18 Rich. J.L. & Tech. 13 (2012);
• Ideology and En Banc Review, 67 N.C. L. Rev. 29 (1988), in Joseph W. Mead, Stare Decisis in the Inferior Courts of the United States, 12 Nev. L.J. 787 (2012);
• Interstate Recognition of Same-Sex Marriage, the Public Policy Exception, and Clear Statements of Extraterritorial Effect, 41 Cal. W. Intl. L.J. 105 (2010), in Steve Sanders, The Constitutional Right To (Keep Your) Same-Sex Marriage, 110 Mich. L. Rev. 1421 (2012); and in William Baude, Beyond DOMA: Choice of State Law in Federal Statutes, 64 Stan. L. Rev. 1371 (2012);
• Judicial Influence: A Citation Analysis of Federal Courts of Appeals Judges, 27 J. Legal Stud. 271 (1998) (with William M. Landes & Lawrence Lessig), in Mark C. Weidemaier,  Judging-Lite: How Arbitrators Use and Create Precedent, 90 N.C. L. Rev. 1091 (2012); and in William M. Landes & Sonia Lahr-Pastor, Measuring Coase’s Influence, 54 J.L. & Econ. S383 (2012);
• The Next Word: Congressional Response to Supreme Court Statutory Decisions, 65 Temp. L. Rev. 425 (1992) (with James L. Walker), in Robert A. Katzmann, Statutes, 87 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 637 (2012);
• The Quiet Revolution in Personal Jurisdiction, 73 Tul. L. Rev. 1 (1998), in Cassandra Burke Robertson, The Inextricable Merits Problem in Personal Jurisdiction, 45 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 1301 (2012); in James R. Pratt, III & Bruce J. McKee, Litigating Tort Cases (Thomson West 2012); and in Steve Sanders, The Constitutional Right to (Keep Your) Same-Sex Marriage, 110 Mich. L. Rev. 1421 (2012);
• Respecting State Courts: The Inevitability of Judicial Federalism (Greenwood 1999) (with James L. Walker), in Martha Dragich, Back to the Drawing Board: Re-examining Accepted Premises of Regional Circuit Structure, 12 J. App. Prac. & Proc. 201 (2011);
• Shoring up Article III: Legislative Court Doctrine in the Post CFTC v. Schor Era, 68 B.U. L. Rev. 85 (1988) (with Richard B. Saphire), in Meghan F. Chapman, Ethics and Due Process: The Impact of Aggressive Congressional Oversight of Open Administrative Adjudications, 25 Geo. J. Leg. Ethics 469 (2012);
• The Supreme Court and the DIG: An Empirical and Institutional Analysis, 2005 Wis. L. Rev. 1421(with Rafael Gely), in Taisu Zhang, The Pragmatic Court: Reinterpreting the Supreme People’s Court of China, 25 Colum. J. Asian L. 1 (2012); and in Ira P. Robbins, Hiding behind the Cloak of Invisibility: The Supreme Court and Per Curiam Opinions, 86 Tul. L. Rev. 1197 (2012);
• The Supreme Court and Sophisticated Use of DIGs, 18 Sup. Ct. Econ. Rev. 155 (2010) (with Rafael Gely), in Richard H. Fallon, Jr., et al., Hart and Wechsler’s The Federal Courts and the Federal System (Foundation Press Supp. 2012);
• Supreme Court Monitoring of the United States Courts of Appeals En Banc, 9 Sup. Ct. Econ. Rev. 171 (2001)(with Tracey George), in Tziporah Schwartz Tapp, Refusing to Compare Apples and Oranges: Why the Fourth Circuit Got It Right in United States v. Divens,  90 N.C. L. Rev. 1267 (2012); and
• The Three-Judge District Court in Voting Rights Litigation, 30 U. Mich. J. L. Reform 79 (1996), in Richard L. Hasen, Anticipatory Overrulings, Invitations, Time Bombs, and Inadvertence: How Supreme Court Justices Move the Law, 61 Emory L.J. 779 (2012); and in Samuel Issacharoff et al., The Law of Democracy: Legal Structure of the Political Process (4th ed. Foundation Press 2012).