College of Law

Courses

• Civil Procedure I
• Conflict of Law
• Federal Courts
• Judicial Extern

Awards

• 2003 Harold C. Schott Scholarship Award
• 1991 Goldman Prize for Excellence in Teaching

November 2011

Michael presented a paper, Congress, the Solicitor General, and the Path of Reapportionment Litigation, at the symposium, Baker v. Carr After 50 Years: Appraising the Reapportionment Revolution, at Case Western Reserve University School of Law on November 4. The symposium papers will be published in the Case Western Reserve Law Review.

Several of Michael’s articles were cited: 

• Diluting Justice on Appeal?: An Examination of the Use of District Court Judges Sitting by Designation on the United States Courts of Appeals, 28 U. Mich. J.L. Reform 351 (1995) (with Richard B. Saphire ), in Noah M. Schubert, Replacement Justice on the United States Supreme Court: The Use of Temporary Justices to Resolve the Recusal Conundrum, 46 U.S.F. L. Rev. 215 (2011);
• Due Process and En Banc Decision Making, 48 Ariz. L. Rev. 325 (2005), in Igartúa v. United States, 654 F.3d 99 (1st Cir. 2011);
• Forum-Selection Clauses and the Privatization of Procedure, 25 Cornell Int'l L.J. 51 (1992), in Kevin E. Davis & Helen Hershkoff, Contracting for Procedure, 53 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 507 (2011);
• Ideology and En Banc Review, 67 N.C. L. Rev. 29 (1988), in Igartúa v. United States, 654 F.3d 99 (1st Cir. 2011);
• 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, The Procedure of Election Law in Federal Courts, 2011 Utah L. Rev. 433;
• Recovery of Economic Damages in Product Liability Actions and the Reemergence of Contractual Remedies, 51 Mo. L. Rev. 977 (1986), in J. Brandon Sieg, Tort, Not Contract: An Argument for Reevaluating the Economic Loss Rule and Classifying Building Damage as "Other Property" when It Is Caused by Defective Construction Materials, 53 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 275 (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 Kevin Koller, Note: Deciphering De Novo Determinations: Must District Courts Review Objections Not Raised Before a Magistrate Judge?, 111 Colum. L. Rev. 1557 (2011).
• State Court Regulation of Offers of Judgment and Its Lessons for Federal Practice, 13 Ohio St. J. Disp. Res. 51 (1997) (with Bryan Pacheco), in Edward F. Sherman & Christopher M. Fairman, Codifying Mediation 2.0: Interplay Between Mediation and Offer of Judgment Rule Sanctions, 26 Ohio St. J. on Disp. Resol. 327 (2011);
• The Supreme Court and the DIG: An Empirical and Institutional Analysis, 2005 Wis. L. Rev. 1421(with Rafael Gely), in David M. O’Brien, Storm Center: The Supreme Court in American Politics (W.W. Norton, 9th ed., 2011);
• Supreme Court Monitoring of the United States Courts of Appeals En Banc, 9 Sup. Ct. Econ. Rev. 171 (2001)(with Tracey George), in Joshua A. Douglas, The Procedure of Election Law in Federal Courts, 2011 Utah L. Rev. 433; 
• The Three-Judge District Court in Voting Rights Litigation, 30 U. Mich. J. L. Reform 79 (1996), in Alexander Scott Jester, Note, Coleman v. Schwarzenegger: Liberal Activism Run Amok or Measured Response to a System in Crisis?, 20 S. Cal. Rev. L. & Soc. Just. 535 (2011); and
• The Three-Judge District Court in Voting Rights Litigation, 30 U. Mich. J. L. Reform 79 (1996), in Joshua A. Douglas, The Procedure of Election Law in Federal Courts, 2011 Utah L. Rev. 433.

October 2011

Michael participated in the drafting of and was a signatory to an amicus curiae brief of law professors that was filed in October in the U.S. Supreme Court case of First American Financial Corp. v. Edwards, no. 10-708 (U.S., Nov. 23, 2010). The case involves the constitutional power of Congress to statutorily provide for a private party to have standing to bring suit, under the federal Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act. It will be argued and decided in the Supreme Court’s 2011-12 Term. The amicus curiae brief cites Michael’s article, Congress, Separation of Powers, and Standing, 59 Case W. Res. L. Rev. 1023 (2009). 

Several of his articles were cited:

• Congress, Ex Parte Young, and the Fate of the Three-Judge District Court, 70 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 101 (2008), in Peter A. Appel,Wilderness, the Courts, and the Effect of Politics on Judicial Decisionmaking, 30 Harv. Envtl. L. Rev. 275 (2011);
• Congress, Ex Parte Young, and the Fate of the Three-Judge District Court, 70 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 101 (2008), in Charles Alan Wright & Mary Kay Kane, Law of Federal Courts (West, Hornbook Series, 7th ed., 2011);
• The Future of Parity, 46 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 1457 (2005), in Arthur Leavens, State Constitutionalism: State-Court Deference or Dissonance?, 33 W. New Eng. L. Rev. 81 (2011);
• Ideology and En Banc Review, 67 N.C. L. Rev. 29 (1988), in Charles Alan Wright & Mary Kay Kane, Law of Federal Courts (West, Hornbook Series, 7th ed., 2011);
• Nepotism in the Federal Judiciary, 71 U. Cin. L. Rev. 563 (2002), in Charles Alan Wright & Mary Kay Kane, Law of Federal Courts (West, Hornbook Series, 7th ed., 2011);
• The Next Word: Congressional Response to Supreme Court Statutory Decisions, 65 Temp. L. Rev. 425 (1992) (with James L. Walker), in Edward A. Fitzgerald, Delisting Wolves in the Northern Rocky Mountains: Congress Cries Wolf, 41 Envtl. L. Rep. News & Analysis 10840 (2011);
• Revitalizing Interlocutory Appeals in the Federal Courts, 58 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1165 (1990), in Charles Alan Wright & Mary Kay Kane, Law of Federal Courts (West, Hornbook Series, 7th ed., 2011); and
• The Supreme Court and the DIG: An Empirical and Institutional Analysis, 2005 Wis. L.Rev. 1421(with Rafael Gely), in Charles Alan Wright & Mary Kay Kane, Law of Federal Courts (West, Hornbook Series, 7th ed., 2011).

September 2011

Michael is serving as the chair of the Reappointment, Promotion, and Tenure Committee for the 2011-12 academic year.
Several of Michael’s articles were cited:

• Forum-Selection Clauses and the Privatization of Procedure, 25 Cornell Int'l L.J. 51 (1992), in Gary B. Born & Peter B. Rutledge, International Civil Litigation in United States Courts (Aspen, 5th ed. 2011);

• Judicial Influence: A Citation Analysis of Federal Courts of Appeals Judges, 27 J. Legal Stud. 271 (1998) (with William M. Landes & Lawrence Lessig), in Jeffrey S. Rosenthal & Albert H. Yoon, Judicial Ghostwriting: Authorship on the Supreme Court, 96 Cornell L. Rev. 1307 (2011);

• Supreme Court Monitoring of State Courts in the Twenty-First Century, 35 Ind. L. Rev. 335 (2002), in Abbe R. Gluck, Statutory Interpretation Methodology as “Law”: Oregon’s Path-Breaking Interpretive Framework and Its Lessons for the Nation, 47 Willamette L. Rev. 539 (2011); and 

• Supreme Court Monitoring of State Courts in the Twenty-First Century, 35 Ind. L. Rev. 335 (2002), in Radha A. Pathak,Incorporated State Law, 61 Case Wes. Res. L. Rev. 823 (2011). 

Summer 2011

Michael’s book review, The Causes And Consequences Of The Reapportionment Revolution, 1 Election L.J. 579 (2002) (reviewing Gary W. Cox & Jonathan N. Katz. Elbridge Gerry's Salamander: The Electoral Consequences of the Reapportionment Revolution (2002)), is now in print.

Judge Juan R. Torruella of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, in his opinion concerning the denial of en banc consideration in Igartua v. United States, __F.3d__ (1st Cir. Aug. 4, 2011), 2011 WL 3340120, cited and discussed two of Prof. Solimine’s articles, Due Process and En Banc Decision Making, 48 Ariz. L. Rev. 325 (2005), and Ideology and En Banc Review, 67 N.C. L. Rev. 29 (1988).

Several of Michael’s other articles were cited:

Choice of Law in the American Courts in 1991, 40 Am. J. Comp. L. 951 (1992), in Symeon C. Symeonides, Choice Of Law In The American Courts In 2010: Twenty-Fourth Annual Survey, 59 Am. J. Comp. L. 303 (2011);

• Congress, Ex Parte Young, and the Fate of the Three-Judge District Court, 70 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 101 (2008), in Richard H. Fallon, et al., Hart and Wechsler’s The Federal Courts and the Federal System (Foundation Press, 6th ed. 2011 Supp.);

• An Economic and Empirical Analysis of Choice of Law, 24 Ga. L. Rev. 49 (1989), in Lea Brilmayer et al., Conflict of Laws (Aspen, 6th ed. 2011);

•  Ex parte Young: An Interbranch Perspective, 40 U. Tol. L. Rev. 999 (2009), in David L. Shapiro, Ex Parte Young And The Uses Of History, 67 N.Y.U. Ann. Surv. Am. L. 69 (2011);

• Forum-Selection Clauses and the Privatization of Procedure, 25 Cornell Int'l L.J. 51 (1992), in Jaime Dodge, The Limits Of Procedural Private Ordering, 97 Va. L. Rev. 723 (2011);

• Forum-Selection Clauses and the Privatization of Procedure, 25 Cornell Int'l L.J. 51 (1992), in Lea Brilmayer, et al., Conflict of Laws (Aspen, 6th ed. 2011);

• Institutional Process, Agenda Setting, and the Development of Election Law on the Supreme Court, 68 Ohio St. L.J. 767 (2007), in Saul Zipkin, Democratic Standing, 26 J.L. & Pol. 179 (2011);

• The Next Word: Congressional Response to Supreme Court Statutory Decisions,65 Temp. L. Rev. 425 (1992) (with James L. Walker), in Victoria F. Nourse, Two Kinds of Plain Meaning, 76 Brook. L. Rev. 997 (2011);

• The Next Word: Congressional Response to Supreme Court Statutory Decisions,65 Temp. L. Rev. 425 (1992) (with James L. Walker), in Hanah Metchis Volokh, A Read-the Bill Rule for Congress, 76 Mo. L. Rev. 135 (2011);

• Revitalizing Interlocutory Appeals in the Federal Courts, 58 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1165 (1990), in Yuval Sinai, The Downside of Preclusion: Some Behavioural and Economic Effects of Action Estoppel in Civil Cases, 56 McGill L.J. 673 (2011);

• State Amici, Collective Action, and the Development of Federalism Doctrine, 46 Ga. L. Rev. ___ (forthcoming, 2011), in James A. Gardner & Antoni Abad I Ninet, Sustainable Decentralization: Power, Extraconstitutional Influence, And Subnational Symmetry In The United States And Spain, 59 Am. J. Comp. L. 491 (2011);

• 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 & Wechsler’s The Federal Courts and the Federal System (Foundation Press, 2011 Supp.).  

• Supreme Court Monitoring of State Courts in the Twenty-First Century, 35 Ind. L. Rev. 335 (2002), in Stacey L. Dogan & Ernest A. Young, Judicial Takings And Collateral Attack On State Court Property Decisions, 6 Duke J. Const. L. & Pub. Pol'y 107 (2011);

• Supreme Court Monitoring of State Courts in the Twenty-First Century, 35 Ind. L. Rev. 335 (2002), in Amanda Frost, Defending the Majoritarian Court, 2010 Mich. St. L. Rev. 757;

• State Court Protection of Federal Constitutional Rights, 12 Harv. J.L. Pub. Pol'y 127 (1989) (with James Walker), in Lumen N. Mulligan, Jurisdiction By Cross-Reference, 88 Wash. U. L. Rev. 1177 (2011); and

• The Three-Judge District Court in Voting Rights Litigation, 30 U. Mich. J. of L. Reform 79 (1996), in Saul Zipkin, Democratic Standing, 26 J.L. & Pol. 179 (2011). 

May 2011

Michael was quoted in:

• Dan Horn, Health Law Battle Coming to 6th Circuit, Cincinnati Enquirer, May 12, 2011, at C1; and

• Sharon Coolidge, Hunter Has Sued or Been Sued 13 Times, Cincinnati Enquirer, May 16, 2011, at A1.

Several of Michael’s articles were cited:

Competitive Federalism and Interstate Recognition of Marriage, 32 Creighton L. Rev. 83 (1998), was cited in Matthew E. Feinberg, And the Ban Plays On…For Now: Why Courts Must Consider Religion in Marriage Equality Cases, 10 U. Md. J. Race, Religion, Gender & Class 221 (2010);

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), was cited in David F. Herr, Annotated Manual for Complex Litigation §§ 15.1, 21.2 (Thomson-West, 4th ed. 2011 Supp.);

Judicial Federalism after Bush v. Gore: Some Observations, 23 Just. Sys. J. 45 (2002), was cited in Paul M. Collins, Jr., Cognitive Dissonance on the U.S. Supreme Court, 64 Pol. Res. Q. 362 (2011);

Institutional Process, Agenda Setting, and the Development of Election Law on the Supreme Court, 68 Ohio St. L.J. 767 (2007), was cited in Saul Zipkin,Democratic Standing, 26 J. L. & Pol. 179 (2011);

The Next Word: Congressional Response to Supreme Court Statutory Decisions, 65 Temp. L. Rev. 425 (1992) (with James L. Walker), was cited in Victoria Nourse, Misunderstanding Congress: Statutory Interpretation, the Supermajoritarian Difficulty, and the Separation of Powers, 99 Geo. L.J. 1119 (2011);

Supreme Court Monitoring of State Courts in the Twenty-First Century, 35 Ind. L. Rev. 335 (2002), was cited in Abbe R. Gluck, Intersystemic Statutory Interpretation: Methodology as “Law” and the Erie Doctrine, 120 Yale L.J. 1898 (2011); and

The Three-Judge District Court in Voting Rights Litigation, 30 U. Mich. J. L. Reform 79 (1996), was cited in Saul Zipkin, Democratic Standing, 26 J. L. & Pol. 179 (2011).

April 2011

Michael presented his paper, State Amici, Collective Action, and the Development of Federalism Doctrine, 46 Ga. L. Rev. ___ (forthcoming, 2011), at a faculty workshop at the University of Toledo College of Law.

Michael served as the moderator for the practitioners’ roundtable panel discussion at the annual 2011 Corporate Law CenterSymposium, The Principles and Politics of Aggregate Litigation: CAFA, PSLRA, and Beyond. 

Several of Michael’s articles were cited:

• ·  Choice of Law in the American Courts in 1991, 40 Am. J. Comp. L. 951 (1992), in Symeon C. Symeonides, Choice of Law in the American Courts in 2010: Twenty-Fourth Annual Survey, 59 Am. J. Comp. L. 303 (2011).
• ·  Congress, Ex Parte Young, and the Fate of the Three-Judge District Court
  70 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 101 (2008), in Peter W. Low, John C. Jeffries, Jr. & Curtis A. Bradley, Federal Courts and the Law of Federal-State Relations(Foundation Press, 7th ed. 2011);
• ·  Constitutional Litigation in Federal and State Courts: An Empirical Analysis of Judicial Parity, 10 Hastings Const’l L.Q. 213 (1983) (with James L. Walker), in Samuel Raymond, Judicial Politics And Medical Device Preemption After Riegel, 5 NYU J. L. & Liberty 745 (2010);
• ·  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 Andrew S. Pollis, The Need For Non-Discretionary Interlocutory Appellate Review In Multidistrict Litigation, 79 Fordham L. Rev. 1643 (2011);
• ·  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 David F. Herr & Roger S. Haydock, Civil Rules Annotated (West, 4th ed. 2011 Supp.);
• ·  Due Process and En Banc Decision Making, 48 Ariz. L. Rev. 325 (2005), in Martha Dragich, Uniformity, Inferiority, and the Law of the Circuit Doctrine, 56 Loy. L. Rev. 535 (2010);

• ·  Ex parte Young: An Interbranch Perspective, 40 U. Tol. L. Rev. 999 (2009), in Peter W. Low, John C. Jeffries, Jr. & Curtis A. Bradley, Federal Courts and the Law of Federal-State Relations (Foundation Press, 7th ed. 2011);
• ·  Formalism, Pragmatism, and the Conservative Critique of the Eleventh Amendment, 101 Mich. L. Rev. 1463 (2003), in Peter W. Low, John C. Jeffries, Jr. & Curtis A. Bradley, Federal Courts and the Law of Federal-State Relations (Foundation Press, 7th ed. 2011);
• ·  Forum-Selection Clauses and the Privatization of Procedure, 25 Cornell Int'l L.J. 51 (1992), in Andrew Popper, The Two-Trillion Dollar Carve-Out: Foreign Manufacturers of Defective Goods and the Death of H.R. 4678 in the 111th Congress, 26 Toxics L. Rep. 105 (BNA 2011);

• ·  Institutional Process, Agenda Setting, and the Development of Election Law on the Supreme Court, 68 Ohio St. L.J. 767 (2007), in Richard L. Hasen,Judges as Political Regulators: Evidence and Options for Institutional Change, in Race, Reform, and the Regulation of the Electoral Process: Recurring Puzzles in American Democracy (Charles, Gerken & Kang, eds., Cambridge U. Press 2011);

• ·  Judicial Influence: A Citation Analysis of Federal Courts of Appeals Judges, 27 J. Legal Stud. 271 (1998) (with William M. Landes & Lawrence Lessig), in Michael J. Bommarito II, Daniel Martin Katz, & Jillian Isaacs-See, An Empirical Survey Of The Population Of U.S. Tax Court Written Decisions, 30 Va. Tax Rev. 523 (2011), and Russell Smyth & Vinod Mishra, The Transmission of Legal Precedent Across the Australian State Supreme Courts Over the Twentieth Century, 45 Law & Soc’y Rev. 139 (2011);
• ·  Rethinking Exclusive Federal Jurisdiction, 52 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 383 (1991), in Peter W. Low, John C. Jeffries, Jr. & Curtis A. Bradley, Federal Courts and the Law of Federal-State Relations (Foundation Press, 7th ed. 2011);
• ·  Revitalizing Interlocutory Appeals in the Federal Courts, 58 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1165 (1990), in Andrew S. Pollis, The Need For Non-Discretionary Interlocutory Appellate Review In Multidistrict Litigation, 79 Fordham L. Rev. 1643 (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 Peter W. Low, John C. Jeffries, Jr. & Curtis A. Bradley, Federal Courts and the Law of Federal-State Relations (Foundation Press, 7th ed. 2011);

• ·  State Amici, Collective Action, and the Development of Federalism Doctrine, 46 Ga. L. Rev. ___ (forthcoming, 2011), in James A. Gardner & Antoni Abad I Ninet, Sustainable Decentralization: Power, Extraconstitutional Influence, and Subnational Symmetry in the United States and Spain, 59 Am. J. Comp. L. 491 (2011);

• ·  Supreme Court Monitoring of State Courts in the Twenty-First Century, 35 Ind. L. Rev. 335 (2002), in Peter W. Low, John C. Jeffries, Jr. & Curtis A. Bradley, Federal Courts and the Law of Federal-State Relations (Foundation Press, 7th ed. 2011); and
• ·  The Three-Judge District Court in Voting Rights Litigation, 30 U. Mich. J. of L. Reform 79 (1996), in Richard L. Hasen, Judges as Political Regulators: Evidence and Options for Institutional Change, in Race, Reform, and the Regulation of the Electoral Process: Recurring Puzzles in American Democracy(Charles, Gerken & Kang, eds., Cambridge U. Press 2011).

March 2011

Michael's article, State Amici, Collective Action, and the Development of Federalism Doctrine, will be published in the Georgia Law Review.

Michael testified before the Civil Justice Committee of the Ohio Senate in favor of S B 52, which recommends that the Ohio Supreme Court modify Ohio Rule of Civil Procedure 68, concerning offers of judgment.  Senator Eric Kearney ’89 is a sponsor of S B 52.

Michael previously addressed this topic in his article, State Court Regulation of Offers of Judgment and Its Lessons For Federal Practice, 13 Ohio St. J. Disp. Res. 51 (1997) (with Bryan Pacheco).

Michael served on a College-wide panel that discussed the Obamacare Mandate.  The discussion, moderated by Dean Lou Bilionis, also featured Professors Betsy Malloy and Michael Solimine, as well as local attorney Jack Painter, who is an advisory board member of the Cincinnati Tea Party and board member of the Ohio Liberty Council.

Several of Michael’s articles were cited:

•        Competitive Federalism and Interstate Recognition of Marriage, 32 Creighton L. Rev. 83 (1998), in Lynn D. Wardle, Who Decides? The Federal Architecture of DOMA and Comparative Marriage Recognition, 41 Cal. W. Int’l L.J. 143 (2010); 

•        Congress, Separation of Powers, and Standing, 59 Case W. Res. L. Rev. 1023 (2009), in Heather Elliott, Congress's Inability To Solve Standing Problems, 91 B.U. L. Rev. 159 (2011); 

•        Constitutional Litigation in Federal and State Courts: An Empirical Analysis of Judicial Parity, 10 Hastings Const’l L.Q. 213 (1983) (with James L. Walker), in James E. Pfander,Principles of Federal Jurisdiction (West, 2d ed. 2011); 

•        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, 2011 Supp.); 

•        Federalism, Liberty and State Constitutional Law, 23 Ohio N.U. L. Rev. 1457 (1997) (with James L. Walker), in Joseph Blocher, Reverse Incorporation Of State Constitutional Law, 84 S. Cal. L. Rev. 323 (2011); 

•        The Future of Parity, 46 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 1457 (2005), in Joseph Blocher, Reverse Incorporation Of State Constitutional Law, 84 S. Cal. L. Rev. 323 (2011); 

•        Judicial Influence: A Citation Analysis of Federal Courts of Appeals Judges, 27 J. Legal Stud. 271 (1998) (with William M. Landes & Lawrence Lessig), in Frank B. Cross & James F. Spriggs II, The Most Important (and Best) Supreme Court Opinions and Justices, 60 Emory L.J. 407 (2010), and Pamela C. Corley, et al., Lower Court Influence on U.S. Supreme Court Opinion Content, 73 J. Pol. 31 (2011); 

•        Judicial Stratification and the Reputations of the United States Courts of Appeals, 32 Fla. St. U.L. Rev. 1331 (2005), in Raymond J. McKosi, Actual Impartiality As the Fundamental Value of Judicial Ethics: Lessons from “Big Judge Davis,” 99 Ky. L.J. 959 (2010); and 

•        The Quiet Revolution in Personal Jurisdiction, 73 Tul. L. Rev. 1 (1998), in Christopher A. Whytock, The Evolving Forum Shopping System, 96 Cornell L. Rev. 481 (2011).

Michael was mentioned in UC Law Hosts Panel on Healthcare Mandate, Targeted News Service, Mar. 11, 2011

February 2011

Michael published Interstate Recognition of Same-Sex Marriage, the Public Policy Exception, and Clear Statements of Extraterritorial Effect, 41 Cal. W. Int’l L.J. 105 (2010), as part of a symposium on DOMA and Issues Concerning Federalism and Interstate Recognition of Same-Sex Relationships.

Michael was a featured speaker at a forum on What We Know About Selecting Judges, at Cleveland State College of Law, sponsored by the Task Force on Judicial Excellence, of the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association, on Feb. 24.  

Several of Michael’s publications were cited:

·    Congress, Separation of Powers, and Standing, 59 Case W. Res. L. Rev. 1023 (2009), in Heather Elliott, Congress’s Inability to Solve Standing Problems, 91 B.U. L. Rev. 159 (2011);

·    Diluting Justice on Appeal?: An Examination of the Use of District Court Judges Sitting by Designation on the United States Courts of Appeals, 28 U. Mich. J.L. Reform 351 (1995) (with Richard B. Saphire ), in Paul M. Collins, Jr. & Wendy L. Martinek, The Small Group Context: Designated District Court Judges in the U.S. Courts of Appeals, 8 J. Empirical Legal Stud. 177 (2011);

·     Ideology and En Banc Review, 67 N.C. L. Rev. 29 (1988), in Paul M. Collins, Jr. & Wendy L. Martinek, The Small Group Context: Designated District Court Judges in the U.S. Courts of Appeals, 8 J. Empirical Legal Stud. 177 (2011);

·    Judicial Influence: A Citation Analysis of Federal Courts of Appeals Judges, 27 J. Legal Stud. 271 (1998) (with William M. Landes & Lawrence Lessig), in G. Mitu Gulati & Eric A. Posner, Are Judges Overpaid? A Skeptical Response To The Judicial Salary Debate, 1 J. Legal Analysis 47 (2009);

·    Removal, Remands, and Reforming Federal Appellate Review, 58 Mo. L. Rev. 287 (1993), in James E. Pfander, Collateral Review Of Remand Orders: Reasserting The Supervisory Role Of The Supreme Court, 159 U. Pa. L. Rev. 493 (2011); and

·    Supreme Court Monitoring of State Courts in the Twenty-First Century, 35 Ind. L. Rev. 335 (2002), in Jason Mazzone, When the Supreme Court is Not Supreme, 104 Nw. U. L. Rev. 979 (2010).

Michael was quoted in:

·     6th Circuit On Losing Streak In Supreme Court Cases, Cincinnati Enquirer, Feb. 20, 2011, at B1; and

·    U.S. 6th Circuit Court Of Appeals On 0-15 Losing Streak, Cincinnati Enquirer, Feb. 22, 2011.

January 2011

The 2011 edition of Michael’s book, Anderson’s Ohio Civil Rules Practice with Forms (LexisNexis) (with John W. McCormac) has been published by LexisNexis.

Several of Michael’s articles were cited:

• Constitutional Litigation in Federal and State Courts: An Empirical Analysis of Judicial Parity, 10 Hastings Const’l L.Q. 213 (1983) (with James L. Walker), in Richard M. Esenberg, If You Speak Up, Must You Stand Down: Caperton and its Limits, 45 Wake Forest  L. Rev. 1287 (2010); 
• The Future of Parity, 46 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 1457 (2005), in Jason Mazzone, When the Supreme Court is Not Supreme, 104 Nw. U. L. Rev. 979 (2010);
• Recalibrating Justiciability in Ohio Courts,  51 Clev. St. L. Rev. 531 (2004), in Bradford Mank, Revisiting the Lyons Den: Summers v. Earth Island Institute’s Misuse of Lyons’ “Realistic Threat” of Harm Standing Test, 42 Ariz. St. L.J. 837 (2010);
• Respecting State Courts: The Inevitability of Judicial Federalism, (Greenwood 1999) (with James L. Walker), in Jason Mazzone, When the Supreme Court is Not Supreme, 104 Nw. U. L. Rev. 979 (2010); and
• Rethinking Exclusive Federal Jurisdiction, 52 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 383 (1991), in Michael L. Wells, et al., Cases and Materials on Federal Courts (West, 2d ed. 2010).

December 2010

Michael's article, Congress, Separation of Powers, and Standing, 59 Case W. Res. L. Rev. 1023 (2009), is now in print.

Several of Michael’s articles were cited:

• Diluting Justice on Appeal?: An Examination of the Use of District Court Judges Sitting by Designation on the United States Courts of Appeals, 28 U. Mich. J.L. Reform 351 (1995) (with Richard B. Saphire), in Ori Aronson, Out Of Many: Military Commissions, Religious Tribunals, And The Democratic Virtues Of Court Specialization, 51 Va. J. Int'l L. 231 (2011);
• Forum-Selection Clauses and the Privatization of Procedure, 25 Cornell Int'l L.J. 51 (1992), in Mark D. Mutschink, Facing The Future Of Oil In U.S. Courts: A Recommendation For Changing The Bremen Doctrine On Enforceability Of Forum Selection Clauses, 63 SMU L. Rev. 1343 (2010);
• Institutional Process, Agenda Setting, and the Development of Election Law on the Supreme Court, 68 Ohio St. L.J. 767 (2007), in Nihal S. Patel,Weighty Considerations: Facial Challenges And The Right To Vote, 104 Nw. U. L. Rev. 741 (2010); and
• The Quiet Revolution in Personal Jurisdiction, 73 Tul. L. Rev. 1 (1998), in Todd David Peterson, The Timing of Minimum Contacts, 79 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 101 (2010).

November 2010

Michael’s article, The Supreme Court and Sophisticated Use of DIGs, 18 Sup. Ct. Econ. Rev. 155 (2010) (with Rafael Gely), is now in print.

Several of Michael’s articles were cited:

• Forum-Selection Clauses and the Privatization of Procedure, 25 Cornell Int'l L.J. 51 (1992), in Allan Erbsen, Impersonal Jurisdiction, 60 Emory L.J. 1 (2010), and in J. Zak Ritchie, A Tie That Binds: Forum Selection Clause Enforceability in West Virginia, 113 W. Va. L. Rev. 95 (2010);
• Competitive Federalism and Interstate Recognition of Marriage, 32 Creighton L. Rev. 83 (1998),  in Lynn D. Wardle, Section Three of the Defense of Marriage Act: Deciding, Democracy, and the Constitution, 58 Drake L. Rev. 951 (2010);
• Congress, Ex Parte Young, and the Fate of the Three-Judge District Court
  70 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 101 (2008), in A. Christopher Bryant, The Pursuit of Perfection: Congressional Power to Enforce the Reconstruction Amendments, 47 Hous. L. Rev. 579 (2010);
• Judicial Influence: A Citation Analysis of Federal Courts of Appeals Judges, 27 J. Legal Stud. 271 (1998) (with William M. Landes & Lawrence Lessig), in Frank B. Cross, Determinants of Citations of Supreme Court Opinions (And the Remarkable Influence of Justice Scalia), 18 Sup. Ct. Econ. Rev. 177 (2010);
• The Impact of Babcock v. Jackson: An Empirical Note, 56 Alb. L. Rev. 773, 775 (1993), in Lynn D. Wardle, Section Three of the Defense of Marriage Act: Deciding, Democracy, and the Constitution, 58 Drake L. Rev. 951 (2010);
• The Next Word: Congressional Response to Supreme Court Statutory Decisions, 65 Temp. L. Rev. 425 (1992) (with James L. Walker), in Luke M. Milligan, Congressional End-Run: The Ignored Constraint On Judicial Review, 45 Ga. L. Rev. 211 (2010); and
• Supreme Court Monitoring of the United States Courts of Appeals En Banc, 9 Sup. Ct. Econ. Rev. 171 (2001)(with Tracey George), in Richard A. Nagareda, Common Answers For Class Certification, 63 Vand. L. Rev. En Banc 149 (2010).

October 2010

Michael presented a paper, State Amici, Collective Action, and the Development of Federalism Doctrine, at the Mauer School of Law, Indiana University-Bloomington, as part of the Scholar Exchange program.

Several of Michael’s articles were cited:

• 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 Alba Conte & Herbert B. Newberg, Newberg on Class Actions (Thomson/West, 4th ed. 2010 Supp.);
• Judicial Influence: A Citation Analysis of Federal Courts of Appeals Judges, 27 J. Legal Stud. 271 (1998) (with William M. Landes & Lawrence Lessig), in Robert Robertson, The Relative (Un)Importance of Rehnquist Court Decisions, 38 Pol. & Pol’y 907 (2010);
• The Quiet Revolution in Personal Jurisdiction, 73 Tul. L. Rev. 1 (1998), in James R. Pratt & Bruce J. McKee, ATLA's Litigating Tort Cases (Roxanne Barton Conlin & Gregory S. Cusimano, eds., Thomson-West, 2010 Supp.);
• Supreme Court Monitoring of State Courts in the Twenty-First Century, 35 Ind. L. Rev. 335 (2002), in Amanda L. Tyler, Setting the Supreme Court’s Agenda: Is There a Place for Certification?, 78 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1310 (2010), and Jeffrey Omar Usman, Good Enough for Government Work: The Interpretation of Positive Constitutional Rights in State Constitutions, 73 Alb. L. Rev. 1459 (2010);
• Recalibrating Justiciability in Ohio Courts, 51 Clev. St. L. Rev. 531 (2004), in Jeffrey Omar Usman, Good Enough for Government Work: The Interpretation of Positive Constitutional Rights in State Constitutions, 73 Alb. L. Rev. 1459 (2010); and
• \State Court Regulation of Offers of Judgment and Its Lessons For Federal Practice, 13 Ohio St. J. Disp. Res. 51 (1997) (with Bryan Pacheco), in Elaine A. Grafton Carlson & Roy McDonald, Texas Civil Practice (Lawyers CoOp. 2d ed., 2010 Supp.).

September 2010

Michael published Independence, Accountability, and the Case for State Judicial Elections, 9 Election Law Journal 215 (2010), reviewing Chris Bonneau & Melinda Gann Hall, In Defense of Judicial Elections (Routledge 2009).

Several of Michael’s articles were cited:

• 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 Baxter Dunaway, Distressed Real Estate (Clark Boardman Callaghan, 2010 Supp.).
• An Economic and Empirical Analysis of Choice of Law, 24 Ga. L. Rev. 49 (1989), in Jonathan Klick, Federalism, Variation, and State Regulation of Franchise Termination, 3 Entrepreneurial Bus. L.J. 355 (2009).
• State Court Regulation of Offers of Judgment and Its Lessons For Federal Practice, 13 Ohio St. J. Disp. Res. 51 (1997) (with Bryan Pacheco), in Steven H. Steinglass, Section 1983 Litigation in State Courts (Clark Boardman Callaghan, 2010).
• Supreme Court Monitoring of the United States Courts of Appeals En Banc, 9 Sup. Ct. Econ. Rev. 171 (2001)(with Tracey George), in Todd Collins, Is the Sum Greater than Its Parts? Circuit Court Composition and Judicial Behavior in the Courts of Appeals, 32 Law & Pol’y 435 (2010).

Summer 2010

Congratulations to Michael on the publication of his new casebook, Voting Rights and Election Law (Matthew Bender/LexisNexis 2010) (with Michael R. Domino, Sr. & Bradley A. Smith), and of his new article, State Judicial Elections and the Limits of Calibrating Access to the Federal Courts, 96 Va. L. Rev. In Brief 41 (2010).

Michael’s new article, Interstate Recognition of Same-Sex Marriage, the Public Policy Exception, and Clear Statements of Extraterritorial Effect, 41 Cal. W. Int’l L.J. ___ (forthcoming 2010), has been accepted for publication.

Michael presented his work-in-progress, State Amici, Collective Action, and the Development of Federalism Doctrine, to the UC Law faculty during its Summer 2010 Faculty Workshop series.

Several of Michael’s publications were cited:

• Congress, Ex Parte Young, and the Fate of the Three-Judge District Court
  70 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 101 (2008), in 2010 Supplement to Richard H. Fallon, et al., Hart and Wechsler’s The Federal Courts and the Federal System (Foundation Press 6th ed. 2009); and in Howard M. Wasserman, Civil Rights and Federal Courts: Creating a Two-Course Sequences, 54 St. Louis U. L.J. 821 (2010);
• Constitutional Litigation in Federal and State Courts: An Empirical Analysis of Judicial Parity, 10 Hastings Const’l L.Q. 213 (1983) (with James L. Walker), in Eric A. Lindberg, Multijurisdictionality and Federalism: Assessing San Reno Hotel’s Effect on Regulatory Takings, 57 UCLA L. Rev. 1819 (2010);
• 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 Laura J. Hines, Mirroring or Muscling: An Examination of State Class Action Appellate Rulemaking, 58 Kan. L. Rev. 1027 (2010);
• Due Process and En Banc Decision Making, 48 Ariz.L. Rev. 325 (2005), in Christopher J. Frankenfield, The Relationship between ERISA, State and Local Health Care Experimentation, and the Passage of National Health Care Reform, 13 J. Health Care L. & Pol’y 423 (2010);
• An Economic and Empirical Analysis of Choice of Law, 24 Ga. L. Rev. 49 (1989), in Rolf Michaels, After the Revolution—Decline and Return of U.S. Conflict of Laws, 11 Y.B. of Private Int’l L. 11 (2009); 
• Federal and State Judicial Selection in an Interest Group Perspective, 74 Mo. L. Rev. 531 (2009) (with Rafael Gely), in Neal Devins, How State Supreme Courts Take Consequences into Account: Toward a State-centered Understanding of State Constitutionalism, 62 Stan. L. Rev. 1629 (2010);
• Federalism, Liberty and State Constitutional Law, 23 Ohio N.U. L. Rev. 1457 (1997) (with James L. Walker), in Robert F. Williams, The Law of American State Constitutions (Oxford University Press 2009);
• Formalism, Pragmatism, and the Conservative Critique of the Eleventh Amendment, 101 Mich. L. Rev. 1463 (2003), in P. Edward French, Eleventh Amendment Immunity in Contemporary Practice: Revisiting the Legal Liability of Local Government in the United States, 37 Pol. & Pol’y 1215 (2009);
• Forum-Selection Clauses and the Privatization of Procedure, 25 Cornell Int'l L.J. 51 (1992), in Peter Hay et al., Conflict of Laws (West 5th ed. 2010);
• The Future of Parity, 46 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 1457 (2005), in Robert F. Williams, The Law of American State Constitutions (Oxford University Press 2009);
• Judicial Influence: A Citation Analysis of Federal Courts of Appeals Judges, 27 J. Legal Stud. 271 (1998) (with William M. Landes & Lawrence Lessig), in Daniel M. Katz & Derek K. Stafford, Hustle and Flow: A Social Network Analysis of the American Federal Judiciary, 71 Ohio St. L.J. 457 (2010); in Casey R. Fronk, The Cost of Judicial Citation: An Empirical Investigation of Citation Practices in the Federal Appellate Courts, 2010 Ill. J. L. Tech. & Pol’y 51; in Massimo Franceschet, Ten Good Reasons to Use the Eigenfactor™ Metrics, 46 Information Proc. & Mgt. 555 (2010); and in Susan Navarro Smelcer, Supreme Court Justices: Demographic Characteristics, Professional Experience, and Legal Education, 1789-2010 (Congressional Research Service 2010);
• Judicial Stratification and the Reputations of the United States Courts of Appeals, 32 Fla. St. U.L. Rev. 1331 (2005), in Daniel M. Katz & Derek K. Stafford, Hustle and Flow: A Social Network Analysis of the American Federal Judiciary, 71 Ohio St. L.J. 457 (2010);
• The Quiet Revolution in Personal Jurisdiction, 73 Tul. L. Rev. 1 (1998), in Elizabeth R. Sheyn, a Foothold for Real Democracy in Eastern Europe: How Instituting Jury Trials in Ukraine Can Bring about Meaningful Governmental and Juridical Reforms and Can Help Spread These Reforms Across Eastern Europe, 43 Vand. J. Transnat'l L. 649 (2010);
• Respecting State Courts: The Inevitability of Judicial Federalism, (Greenwood 1999) (with James L. Walker), in Eric A. Lindberg, Multijurisdictionality and Federalism: Assessing San Reno Hotel’s Effect on Regulatory Takings, 57 UCLA L. Rev. 1819 (2010);
• 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 Paul Diller, Habeas and (Non-)Delegation, 77 U. Chi. L. Rev. 585 (2010);
• State Court Regulation of Offers of Judgment and Its Lessons For Federal Practice, 13 Ohio St. J. Disp. Res. 51 (1997) (with Bryan Pacheco), in Steven C. Bennett, Are E-Discovery Costs Recoverable?, 20 Alb. L.J. Sci. & Tech. 537 (2010);
• Supreme Court Monitoring of State Courts in the Twenty-First Century, 35 Ind. L. Rev. 335 (2002), in Robert F. Williams, The Law of American State Constitutions (Oxford University Press 2009); and in Amanda Frost & Stefanie A. Lindquist, Countering the Majoritarian Difficulty, 96 Va. L. Rev. 719 (2010);
• Supreme Court Monitoring of the United States Courts of Appeals En Banc 9 Sup. Ct. Econ. Rev. 171 (2001) (with Tracey George), in Sara C. Benesh & Wendy L. Martinek, Context and Compliance: A Comparison of State Supreme Courts and the Circuits, 93 Marq. L. Rev. 795 (2009); and
• The Three-Judge District Court in Voting Rights Litigation, 30 U. Mich. J. of L. Reform 79 (1996), in Travis Crum, The Voting Rights Act's Secret Weapon: Pocket Trigger Litigation and Dynamic Preclearance, 119 Yale L.J. 1992 (2010).

June 2010

Several of Michael’s articles were cited:

• Choice of Law in the American Courts in 1991, 40 Am. J. Comp. L. 951 (1992), in Symeon C. Symeonides, Choice of Law in the American Courts in 2009: Twenty-Third Annual Survey, 58 Am. J. Comp. L. 227 (2010).
• 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 David F. Herr & Roger S. Haydock, Civil Rules Annotated (West, 4th ed. 2010 Supp.); and in Richard L. Marcus, Edward F. Sherman & Howard M. Erichson, Complex Litigation (West, 5th ed. 2010).
• 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 James E. Pfander & Theresa R. Wardon, Reclaiming the Immigration Constitution of the Early Republic: Prospectivity, Uniformity, and Transparency, 96 Va. L. Rev. 359 (2010).

May 2010

Several of Michael’s articles were cited:

• Choice of Law in the American Courts in 1991, 40 Am. J. Comp. L. 951 (1992), in Symeon C. Symeonides, Choice of Law in the American Courts in 2009: Twenty-Third Annual Survey, 58 Am. J. Comp. L. 227 (2010).
• Competitive Federalism and Interstate Recognition of Marriage, 32 Creighton L. Rev. 83 (1998), in Toni Marzal Yetano, The Constitutionalisation of Party Autonomy in European Family Law, 6 J. Private Int’l L. 155 (2010).
• 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 David F. Herr, Annotated Manual for Complex Litigation (Thomson-West, 2010 Supp.).
• Ideology and En Banc Review, 67 N.C. L. Rev. 29 (1988), in Paul G. Ulrich & Sidley Austin, Brown & Wood, Federal Appellate Practice Guide 9th Circuit (Lawyers Cooperative, 2nd ed., 2010 Supp.).
• The Quiet Revolution in Personal Jurisdiction, 73 Tul. L. Rev. 1 (1998), in Roxanne Barton Conlin & Gregory S. Cusimano, eds., ATLA's Litigating Tort Cases (Thomson- West, 2009 Supp.).
• 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 Troy A. McKenzie, Judicial Independence, Autonomy, and the Bankruptcy Courts, 62 Stan. L. Rev. 747 (2010).
• State Court Regulation of Offers of Judgment and Its Lessons For Federal Practice, 13 Ohio St. J. Disp. Res. 51 (1997) (with Bryan Pacheco), in Jay Horowitz, Rule 68: The Settlement Promotion Tool That Has Not Promoted Settlements, 87 Denv. U. L. Rev. 485 (2010).
• An Economic and Empirical Analysis of Choice of Law, 24 Ga. L. Rev. 49 (1989), in David P. Currie, et al., Conflict of Laws (West, 8th ed., 2010); Peter Hay, Russell J. Weintraub & Patrick J. Borchers, Conflict of Laws (Foundation Press, 13th ed., 2010); and Russell J. Weintraub, Commentary on the Conflict of Laws (Foundation Press, 6th ed., 2010).
• Forum-Selection Clauses and the Privatization of Procedure, 25 Cornell Int'l L.J. 51 (1992), in David P. Currie, et al., Conflict of Laws (West, 8th ed., 2010), and Robert L. Felix & Ralph U. Whitten, American Conflicts Law (LexisNexis, 5th ed, 2010).

April 2010

Several of Michael’s books and articles were cited.

• Appellate Practice and Procedure: Cases and Materials (Thomson-West, 2d ed. 2005) (with Robert Martineau, Kent Sinclair & Randy Holland), in Chad M. Oldfather, Error Correction, 85 Ind. L.J. 49 (2010).
• Respecting State Courts: The Inevitability of Judicial Federalism (Greenwood 1999) (with James L. Walker), in Laura E. Little, Federal Courts (Aspen, 2d ed. 2010).
• Constitutional Litigation in Federal and State Courts: An Empirical Analysis of Judicial Parity, 10 Hastings Const’l L.Q. 213 (1983) (with James L. Walker), in David Fautsch, The Tax Injunction Act and Federal Jurisdiction: Reasoning From the Underlying Goals of Federalism and Comity, 108 Mich. L. Rev. 795 (2010).
• 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, 2010 Supp.).
• Deregulating Voluntary Dismissals, 32 U. Mich. J. L. Reform 367 (2003) (with Amy Lippert), in S. Ben Barnes, Voluntary Dismissal in Ohio: A Tale of an Ancient Procedure in a Modern World, 57 Clev. St. L. Rev. 921 (2009).
• The False Promise of Judicial Elections in Ohio, 30 Cap. U. L. Rev. 559 (2002), in Jason D. Grimes, Aligning Judicial Elections with Our Constitutional Values: The Separation of Powers, Judicial Free Speech, and Due Process, 57 Clev. St. L. Rev. 863 (2009).
• Judicial Influence: A Citation Analysis of Federal Courts of Appeals Judges, 27 J. Legal Stud. 271 (1998) (with William M. Landes & Lawrence Lessig), in Frank B. Cross, et al., Citations in the U.S. Supreme Court: An Empirical Study of Their Use and Significance, 2010 U. Ill. L. Rev. 489; and Thomas J. Forr, Want Less Ideology on the Federal Bench? Pay Judges More, 158 U. Pa. L. Rev. 859 (2010).
• The Law and Economics of Conflict of Laws, 4 Am. Law & Eco. Rev. 208 (2002) (reviewing Michael J. Whincop & Mary Keyes, Policy and Pragmatism in the Conflict of Laws (2001), in Katharina Klingel, The Principles of European Law in Personal Security (Mohr Siebeck Tübinger: Max Planck Institute 2009).
• Nepotism in the Federal Judiciary, 71 U. Cin. L. Rev. 563 (2002), in James F. Ianelli, The Sound of Silence: Eligibility Qualifications and Article III, 6 Seton Hall Cir. Rev. 55 (2009).
• The Next Word: Congressional Response to Supreme Court Statutory Decisions, 65 Temp. L. Rev. 425 (1992) (with James L. Walker), in James J. Brudney, The Supreme Court as Interstitial Actor: Justice Ginsburg’s Eclectic Approach to Statutory Interpretation, 70 Ohio St. L.J. 889 (2009).
• Recalibrating Justiciability in Ohio Courts, 51 Clev. St. L. Rev. 531 (2004), in Bradford Mank, Summers v. Earth Island Institute Rejects Probabilistic Standing, But Laidlaw Still Leaves an Opening for Threatened Injuries, 40 Envtl. L. 89 (2010).
• State Court Protection of Federal Constitutional Rights, 12 Harv. J.L. Pub. Pol’y 127 (1989) (with James Walker), in Austin L. Parrish, Duplicative Foreign Litigation, 78 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 237 (2010).

March 2010

Michael joined in an amicus curiae brief of law professors filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Hepting v. AT&T Corp., No. 09-16676. The case concerns the constitutionality of federal legislation that gave retroactive immunity to telecommunications companies being sued for damages, for allegedly violating the constitutional rights of persons by aiding the government in electronic surveillance.

Several of his Michael’s were cited:

• Forum-Selection Clauses and the Privatization of Procedure, 25 Cornell Int'l L.J. 51 (1992), in Felix Sparks, Jurisdiction and Arbitration Clauses in Maritime Transport Documents: A Comparative Analysis (Hamburg Studies in Maritime Affairs, Springer-Heidelberg 2010).
• Judicial Influence: A Citation Analysis of Federal Courts of Appeals Judges, 27 J. Legal Stud. 271 (1998) (with William M. Landes & Lawrence Lessig), in Richard A. Posner, From the New Institutional Economics to Organization Economics: With Applications to Corporate Governance, Government Agencies, and Legal Institutions, 6 J. Institutional Econ. 1 (2010); and Christoph Knill, et al., All Higher Administrative Courts are Equal?, 42 Die Verwaltung 55 (2009).
• 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 Geoffrey Miller, Preliminary Judgments, 2010 U. Ill. L. Rev. 165.
• State Court Regulation of Offers of Judgment and Its Lessons For Federal Practice, 13 Ohio St. J. Disp. Res. 51 (1997) (with Bryan Pacheco), in William P. Lynch, Rule 68 Offers of Judgment: Lessons from the New Mexico Experience, 39 N.M. L. Rev. 349 (2009).

February 2010

Two of Michael’s articles were cited:

• Formalism, Pragmatism, and the Conservative Critique of the Eleventh Amendment, 101 Mich. L. Rev. 1463 (2003), in Ivan E. Bodensteiner, Scope of the Second Amendment-Post- Heller Standard of Review, 41 U. Tol. L. Rev. 43 (2009).
• Institutional Process, Agenda Setting, and the Development of Election Law on the Supreme Court, 68 Ohio St. L.J. 767 (2007), in Joshua Ney, Does the Kansas Supreme Court Selection Process Violate the One Person One Vote Doctrine?, 49 Washburn L.J. 143 (2009).

January 2010

Michael published Anderson’s Ohio Civil Rules Practice with Forms (LexisNexis Matthew Bender, 2010 edition), with John W. McCormac.

Several of Michael’s articles were cited:

• Congress, Ex Parte Young, and the Fate of the Three-Judge District Court, 70 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 101 (2008), in Marcia L. McCormick, Solving the Mystery of How Ex parte Young Escaped the Federalism Revolution, 40 U. Tol. L. Rev. 909 (2009); and Edward A. Purcell, Jr., Ex parte Young and the Transformation of the Federal Courts, 1890-1917, 40 U. Tol. L. Rev. 931 (2009).
• Constitutional Litigation in Federal and State Courts: An Empirical Analysis of Judicial Parity, 10 Hastings Const’l L.Q. 213 (1983) (with James L. Walker), in Dustin E. Buehler, Revisiting Rooker-Feldman: Extending the Doctrine to State Court Interlocutory Orders, 36 Fla. St. U. L. Rev. 373 (2009).
• An Economic and Empirical Analysis of Choice of Law, 24 Ga. L. Rev. 49 (1989), in Genevieve G. York-Erwin, Note, The Choice-of-Law Problem(s) in the Class Action Context, 84 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 1793 (2009).
• Ex parte Young: An Interbranch Perspective, 40 U. Tol. L. Rev. 999 (2009), in James Leonard, Ex parte Young and Hard Times, 40 U. Tol. L. Rev. 889 (2009).
• Federal and State Judicial Selection in an Interest Group Perspective, 74 Mo. L. Rev. 531 (2009) (with Rafael Gely), in Anthony Champagne, Parties, Interest Groups, and Systemic Change, 74 Mo. L. Rev. 555 (2009); and Lee Epstein, Shedding (Empirical) Light on Judicial Selection, 74 Mo. L. Rev. 563 (2009).
• The Next Word: Congressional Response to Supreme Court Statutory Decisions, 65 Temp. L. Rev. 425 (1992) (with James L. Walker), in Brendon Swedlow, Reason for Hope? The Spotted Owl Injunctions and Policy Change, 34 Law & Soc. Inquiry 825 (2009).
• Recovery of Economic Damages in Product Liability Actions and the Reemergence of Contractual Remedies, 51 Mo. L. Rev. 977 (1986), in Vicki Lawrence MacDougall, Oklahoma Product Liability Law (Thomson West, Oklahoma Practice Series, 2009 Supp.).
• State Court Regulation of Offers of Judgment and Its Lessons For Federal Practice, 13 Ohio St. J. Disp. Res. 51 (1997) (with Bryan Pacheco), in Elaine A. Grafton Carlson & Roy McDonald, Texas Civil Practice (Lawyers Coop. 2d ed., 2009 Supp.); and Steven H. Steinglass, Section 1983 Litigation in State Courts (Clark Boardman Callaghan, 2009).

December 2009

Michael published Ex parte Young: An Interbranch Approach, 40 U. Tol. L. Rev. 999 (2009), as part of the Symposium, Ex parte Young: The Font of Federal Rights Enforcement Celebrating the Centennial 1908-2008.

Several of Michael’s articles were cited.

• Congress, Ex Parte Young, and the Fate of the Three-Judge District Court, 70 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 101 (2008), in Barry Friedman, The Will of the People: How Public Opinion Has Influenced the Supreme Court and Shaped the Meaning of the Constitution (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009); Barry Friedman, The Story of Ex parte Young: Once Controversial, Now Canon, in Federal Courts Stories (Vicki C. Jackson & Judith Resnik, eds., Foundation Press, 2009); and Jeffrey J. Rachlinski, et al., Does Unconscious Racial Bias Affect Trial Judges?, 84 Notre Dame L. Rev. 1195 (2009).
• 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 Alba Conte & Herbert B. Newberg, Newberg on Class Actions (Thomson/West, 4th ed. 2009 Supp.).
• The Future of Parity, 46 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 1457 (2005), in Judith Resnik & Vicki C. Jackson, The Idea of a Jurisdiction, a Course, and a Canon: Introducing Federal Courts Stories, in Federal Courts Stories (Vicki C. Jackson & Judith Resnik, eds. Foundation Press, 2009); Jamison E. Colburn, Splitting the Atom of Property: Rights Experimentalism as Obligation to Future Generations, 77 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1411 (2009); Wayne A. Logan, Contingent Constitutionalism: State and Local Criminal Laws and the Applicability of Federal Constitutional Rights, 51 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 143 (2009); and Jack F. Preis, Constitutional Enforcement by Proxy, 95 Va. L. Rev. 1663 (2009).
• Judicial Influence: A Citation Analysis of Federal Courts of Appeals Judges, 27 J. Legal Stud. 271 (1998) (with William M. Landes & Lawrence Lessig), in Robert J. Hume, How Courts Impact Federal Administrative Behavior (Routledge, 2009); and Martin S. Masar III, Effects of the Federal Circuit Judges on Hatch-Waxman Litigation, 19 DePaul J. Art., Tech. & Intell. Prop. L. 315 (2009).
• Rethinking Feminist Judging, 70 Ind. L.J. 891 (1995) (with Susan E. Wheatley), in Dwight Aarons, A Nuts and Bolts Approach to Teaching for Social Change: A Blueprint and a Plan of Action, 76 Tenn. L. Rev. 405 (2009); and Beverly Baines, Contextualism, Feminism, and a Canadian Woman Judge, 17 Fem. Legal Stud. 27 (2009).
• Recalibrating Justiciability in Ohio Courts, 51 Clev. St. L. Rev. 531 (2004), in Bradford Mank, Standing and Statistical Persons: A Risk-Based Approach to Standing, 36 Ecology L. Q. 665 (2009).
• State Court Regulation of Offers of Judgment and Its Lessons For Federal Practice, 13 Ohio St. J. Disp. Res. 51 (1997) (with Bryan Pacheco), in Elaine A. Grafton Carlson & Roy McDonald, McDonald & Carlson Texas Civil Practice (Lawyers Coop. 2d ed. 2009 Supp.); and Steven H. Steinglass, Section 1983 Litigation in State Courts (Clark Boardman Callaghan, 2009 Supp.).

Michael was quoted on Maine’s recent repeal of legislation approving of same-sex marriage in Flash Mob Protests Maine Legislation, UC News Record, Nov. 10, 2009.

November 2009

Several of Michael’s publications were cited:

• Formalism, Pragmatism, and the Conservative Critique of the Eleventh Amendment, 101 Mich. L. Rev. 1463 (2003), in Thomas B. Colby, Living Originalism, 59 Duke L.J. 239 (2009).
• An Economic and Empirical Analysis of Choice of Law, 24 Ga. L. Rev. 49 (1989), in Jonathan Klick, Bruce Kobayashi, & Larry Ribstein, Federalism, Variation, and State Regulation of Franchise Termination, 3 Entrepren. Bus. L.J. 355 (2009).
• The False Promise of Judicial Elections in Ohio, 30 Cap. U. L. Rev. 559 (2002), in Jonathan Remy Nash, Evaluating the Potential for a Race to the Bottom, 64 N.Y.U. Ann. Surv. Am. L. 617 (2009).
• Revitalizing Interlocutory Appeals in the Federal Courts, 58 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1165 (1990); and Status Seeking and the Allure and Limits of Law School Rankings, 81 Ind. L.J. 299 (2006), in Ralf Michaels, Comparative Law by Numbers? Legal Origins Thesis, Doing Business Reports, and the Silence of Traditional Comparative Law, 57 Am. J. Comp. L. 765 (2009); and Robin Barnes, Drafting the Priests of Our Democracy to Serve the Diplomatic, Informational, Military & Economic Dimensions of Power, 27 Buff. Pub. Int. L.J. 131 (2008).

October 2009

Several of Michael’s publications were cited:

• 3 Anderson’s Ohio Civil Practice (Matthew Bender/LexisNexis 2008), in Epply v. Tri-Valley Local School Dist. Bd. of Edn., 122 Ohio St.3d 56, 908 N.E.2d 401 (2009).
• Congress, Ex Parte Young, and the Fate of the Three-Judge District Court, 70 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 101 (2008), in Peter W. Low, John C. Jeffries, Jr. & Curtis A. Bradley, Federal Courts and the Law of Federal-State Relations (Foundation Press, 2009 Supp.).
• 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 Baxter Dunaway, Distressed Real Estate (Clark Boardman Callaghan, 2009 Supp.)
• Judicial Stratification and the Reputations of the United States Courts of Appeals, 32 Fla. St. U. L. Rev. 1331 (2005); and The Supreme Court and the DIG: An Empirical and Institutional Analysis, 2005 Wis. L. Rev. 1421 (with Rafael Gely), in Frank B. Cross, Collegial Ideology in the Courts, 103 Nw. U. L. Rev. 1399 (2009).

Summer 2009

Several of Michael’s books and articles were cited:

• Respecting State Courts: The Inevitability of Judicial Federalism, (Greenwood Press, 1999) (with James L. Walker); Constitutional Litigation in Federal and State Courts: An Empirical Analysis of Judicial Parity, 10 Hastings Const. L.Q. 213 (1983) (with James Walker); Shoring up Article III: Legislative Court Doctrine in the Post CFTC v. Schor Era, 68 B.U. L. Rev. 85 (1988) (with Richard Saphire); Due Process and En Banc Decision Making, 48 Ariz.L. Rev. 325 (2005); Supreme Court Monitoring of State Courts in the Twenty-First Century, 35 Ind. L. Rev. 335 (2002); and The Supreme Court and the DIG: An Empirical and Institutional Analysis, 2005 Wis. L.Rev. 1421 (with Rafael Gely), in Richard H. Fallon, Jr., et al., Hart & Wechsler’s The Federal Courts and the Federal System (Foundation Press, 6th ed. 2009).
• The Quiet Revolution in Personal Jurisdiction, 73 Tul. L. Rev. 1 (1998); Deregulating Voluntary Dismissals, 32 U. Mich. J. L. Reform 367 (2003) (with Amy Lippert); Revitalizing Interlocutory Appeals in the Federal Courts, 58 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1165 (1990); and 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 Richard L. Marcus, et al., Civil Procedure: A Modern Approach (West, 5th ed. 2009).
• Removal, Remands, and Reforming Federal Appellate Review, 58 Mo. L. Rev. 287 (1993); The Quiet Revolution in Personal Jurisdiction, 73 Tul. L. Rev. 1 (1998); Forum-Selection Clauses and the Privatization of Procedure, 25 Cornell Int'l L.J. 51 (1992); 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); Deregulating Voluntary Dismissals, 32 U. Mich. J. L. Reform 367 (2003) (with Amy Lippert); and State Court Regulation of Offers of Judgment and Its Lessons For Federal Practice, 13 Ohio St. J. Disp. Res. 51 (1997) (with Bryan Pacheco), in Larry L. Teply & Ralph U. Whitten, Civil Procedure (Foundation Press 4th ed. 2009).
• Supreme Court Monitoring of State Courts in the Twenty-First Century, 35 Ind. L. Rev. 335 (2002); Forum-Selection Clauses and the Privatization of Procedure, 25 Cornell Int'l L.J. 51 (1992); Deregulating Voluntary Dismissals, 32 U. Mich. J. L. Reform 367 (2003) (with Amy Lippert); Rethinking Exclusive Federal Jurisdiction, 52 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 383 (1991); and 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 Jack H. Friedenthal, et al., Civil Procedure (West, 10th ed. 2009).
• The Future of Parity, 46 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 1457 (2005); 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); and Revitalizing Interlocutory Appeals in the Federal Courts, 58 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1165 (1990), in Linda J. Silberman, Allan R. Stein & Tobias Barrington Wolff, Civil Procedure Theory and Practice (Aspen 3d ed. 2009).
• Judicial Influence: A Citation Analysis of Federal Courts of Appeals Judges, 27 J. Legal Stud. 271 (1998) (with William M. Landes & Lawrence Lessig), in Robert J. Hume, Courting Multiple Audiences: The Strategic Selection of Legal Groundings by Judges on the U.S. Courts of Appeals, 30 Justice Sys. J. 14 (2009); Stephen J. Choi, Mitu Gulati & Eric A. Posner, Judicial Evaluations and Information Forcing: Ranking State High Courts and Their Judges, 58 Duke L.J. 1313 (2009); Frank B. Cross & Stefanie Lindquist, Judging the Judges, 58 Duke L.J. 1383 (2009); and Scott Baker, Adam Feibelman & William P. Marshall, The Continuing Search for a Meaningful Model of Judicial Rankings and Why it (Unfortunately) Matters, 58 Duke L.J. 1645 (2009).
• An Economic and Empirical Analysis of Choice of Law, 24 Ga. L. Rev. 49 (1989), in Robert C. Bird & John D. Knopf, Do Wrongful-Discharge Laws Impair Firm Performance?, 52 J. L. & Econ. 197 (2009); and Christopher A. Whytock, Myth of Mess? International Choice of Law in Action, 84 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 719 (2009).
• Diluting Justice on Appeal?: An Examination of the Use of District Court Judges Sitting by Designation on the United States Courts of Appeals, 28 U. Mich. J.L. Reform 351 (1995) (with Richard B. Saphire ); 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 James E. Pfander, One Supreme Court: Supremacy, Inferiority, and the Judicial Power of the United States (Oxford University Press, 2009).
• Appellate Practice and Procedure: Cases and Materials (Thomson-West, 2d ed. 2005) (with Robert Martineau, Kent Sinclair & Randy Holland); and 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 Thomas E. Baker, An Annotated Bibliography on Federal Appellate Practice and Procedure, 10 J. App. Prac. & Proc. 13 (2009).
• Supreme Court Monitoring of the United States Courts of Appeals En Banc, 9 Sup. Ct. Econ. Rev. 171 (2001) (with Tracey George); and Revitalizing Interlocutory Appeals in the Federal Courts, 58 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1165 (1990), in Pauline T. Kim, et al., How Should We Study District Judge Decision-Making?, 24 Wash. U. J. L. & Pol’y 83 (2009).
• Recalibrating Justiciability in Ohio Courts, 51 Clev. St. L. Rev. 531 (2004), in Bradford C. Mank, Standing and Future Generations: Does Massachusetts v. EPA Open Standing for the Unborn?, 34 Colum. J. Envtl. L. 1 (2009).
• Judicial Stratification and the Reputations of the United States Courts of Appeals, 32 Fla. St. U.L. Rev. 1331 (2005), in Nuno Garoupa & Tom Ginsburg, Judicial Audiences and Reputation: Perspectives from Comparative Law, 47 Colum. J. Trans. L. 451 (2009).
• Diluting Justice on Appeal?: An Examination of the Use of District Court Judges Sitting by Designation on the United States Courts of Appeals, 28 U. Mich. J.L. Reform 351 (1995) (with Richard B. Saphire ), in Samuel P. Jordan, Irregular Panels, 60 Ala. L. Rev. 547 (2009).
• Status Seeking and the Allure and Limits of Law School Rankings, 81 Ind. L.J. 299 (2006), in Robin Barnes, Drafting the Priests of Our Democracy to Serve the Diplomatic, Informational, Military and Economic Dimensions of Power, 27 Buff. Pub. Int’l L.J. 131 (2008-09).
• Deregulating Voluntary Dismissals, 32 U. Mich. J. L. Reform 367 (2003) (with Amy Lippert), in Anne Leigh Drushal, Free to Litigate or Free from Litigation: Balancing Plaintiffs’ Rights with Court Considerations and Defeandant’s Interests in Hudson v. City of Chicago, 40 Loy. U. Chi. L.J. 995 (2009).
• 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 Penelope Pether, Constitutional Solipsism: Toward a Thick Doctrine of Article III Duty; or Why the Federal Circuits' Nonprecedential Status Rules Are (Profoundly) Unconstitutional, 17 Wm. & Mary Bill Rts. J. 955 (2009).
• Judicial Stratification and the Reputations of the United States Courts of Appeals, 32 Fla. St. U.L. Rev. 1331 (2005), in Jacob Katz Cogan, Representation and Power in International Organization: The Operational Constitution and Its Critics, 103 Am. J. Int’l L. 209 (2009).
• Supreme Court Monitoring of State Courts in the Twenty-First Century, 35 Ind. L. Rev. 335 (2002), in Steven Andrew Smith & Adam Hansen, Federalism's False Hope: How State Civil Rights Laws Are Systematically Under-enforced in Federal Forums (And What Can Be Done about It), 26 Hofstra Lab. & Emp. L.J. 63 (2008).

June 2009

Michael participated in a meeting called by the Ohio State Bar Association on the topic of Judicial Selection/Public Financing for Ohio judges. Several of his publications were cited:

• 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 David F. Herr, Annotated Manual for Complex Litigation (Thomson-West, 2009 Supp.).
• Deregulating Voluntary Dismissals, 32 U. Mich. J. L. Reform 367 (2003) (with Amy Lippert), in Jeremy A. Blumenthal, Legal Claims as Private Property: Implications for Eminent Domain, 36 Hastings Const. L.Q. 373 (2009).
• The Future of Parity, 46 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 1457 (2005), in Robert A. Schapiro, Polyphonic Federalism: Toward the Protection of Fundamental Rights (University of Chicago Press, 2009).
• Ideology and En Banc Review, 67 N.C. L. Rev. 29 (1988), in Pauline T. Kim, Deliberation and Strategy on the United States Courts of Appeals: An Empirical Exploration of Panel Effects, 157 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1319 (2009).
• Supreme Court Monitoring of the United States Courts of Appeals En Banc, 9 Sup. Ct. Econ. Rev. 171 (2001)(with Tracey George), in Chris Guthrie & Tracey George, Remaking the United States Supreme Court in the Courts’ of Appeals Image, 58 Duke L.J. 1439 (2009).
• Removal, Remands, and Reforming Federal Appellate Review, 58 Mo. L. Rev. 287 (1993); The Quiet Revolution in Personal Jurisdiction, 73 Tulane L. Rev. 1 (1998); Forum-Selection Clauses and the Privatization of Procedure, 25 Cornell Int’l L. J. 51 (1992); 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); Deregulating Voluntary Dismissals, 36 U. Mich. J. L. Reform 367 (2003) (with Amy Lippert); State Court Regulation of Offers of Judgment and Its Lessons for Federal Practice, 13 Ohio St. J. on Disp. Resol. 51 (1997) (with Bryan Pacheco); and Revitalizing Interlocutory Appeals in the Federal Courts, 58 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1165 (1990), in Larry L. Teply & Ralph U. Whitten, Civil Procedure (Foundation Press 4th ed. 2009).
• Respecting State Courts: The Inevitability of Judicial Federalism (Greenwood, 1999) (with James L. Walker); Constitutional Litigation in Federal and State Courts: An Empirical Analysis of Judicial Parity, 10 Hastings Const’l L.Q. 213 (1983) (with James L. Walker); and State Court Protection of Federal Constitutional Rights, 12 Harv. J.L. Pub. Pol'y 127 (1989) (with James Walker), in Meredith Johnson Harbach, Is the Family a Federal Question?, 66 Wash. & Lee. L. Rev. 131 (2009).

May 2009

Several of Michael’s articles were cited.

• Choice of Law in the American Courts in 1991, 40 Am. J. Comp. L. 951 (1992), in Symeon C. Symeonides, Choice of Law in the American Courts in 2008: Twenty-second Annual Survey, 57 Am. J. Comp. L. 269 (2009).
• 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 Alan Ides & Christopher N. May, Civil Procedure (Aspen 3d ed. 2009), and Richard A. Nagareda, Class Certification in the Age of Aggregate Proof, 84 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 97 (2009).
• Judicial Influence: A Citation Analysis of Federal Courts of Appeals Judges, 27 J. Legal Stud. 271 (1998) (with William M. Landes & Lawrence Lessig), in Stephen J. Choi, G. Mitu Gulati & Eric A. Posner, Are Judges Overpaid? A Skeptical Response to the Judicial Salary Debate, 1 J. Legal Analysis 1 (2009).
• The False Promise of Judicial Elections in Ohio, 30 Cap. U.L. Rev. 559 (2002), in Bruce I. Petrie, Sr., Political Patronage in Ohio: Governor Taft’s Judicial Appointees, 77 U. Cin. L. Rev. 645 (2008), and Jonathan Remy Nash, Judicial Election Versus Judicial Appointment: Evaluating the Potential for a Race to the Bottom, 64 NYU Ann. Survey of Am. Law 617 (2009).
• An Economic and Empirical Analysis of Choice of Law, 24 Ga. L. Rev. 49 (1989), in Peter Hay, Russell J. Weintraub & Patrick J. Borchers, Conflict of Laws (Foundation Press, 13th ed. 2009).
• Ideology and En Banc Review, 67 N.C. L. Rev. 29 (1988), and Supreme Court Monitoring of the United States Courts of Appeals En Banc, 9 Sup. Ct. Econ. Rev. 171 (2001) (with Tracey George), in Tom S. Clark, A Principal-Agent Theory of En Banc Review, 25 J. L., Econ. & Org. 55 (2009).
• Status Seeking and the Allure and Limits of Law School Rankings, 81 Ind. L.J. 299 (2006), in Michael S. Kang, To Here from Theory in Election Law, 87 Texas L. Rev. 787 (2009).
• Revitalizing Interlocutory Appeals in the Federal Courts, 58 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1165 (1990), in Allan Ides & Christopher N. May, Civil Procedure (Aspen, 3d ed. 2009).

April 2009

Michael presented Ex parte Young: An Interbranch Perspective at the University of Toledo Law Review Symposium on Ex parte Young: The Font of Federal Rights Enforcement; Celebrating the Centennial 1908-2008. He hosted a faculty-student brownbag luncheon on his article, Congress, Separation of Powers, and Standing, 59 Case W. Res. L. Rev. ___ (2009).

Several of Michael’s publications were cited:

• Respecting State Courts: The Inevitability of Judicial Federalism (Greenwood 1999) (with James L. Walker); Constitutional Litigation in Federal and State Courts: An Empirical Analysis of Judicial Parity, 10 Hastings Const’l L.Q. 213 (1983) (with James L. Walker); Shoring up Article III: Legislative Court Doctrine in the Post CFTC v. Schor Era, 68 B.U. L. Rev. 85 (1988) (with Richard Saphire); The Supreme Court and the DIG: An Empirical and Institutional Analysis, 2005 Wis. L.Rev. 1421 (with Rafael Gely); Rethinking Exclusive Federal Jurisdiction, 52 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 383 (1991); Supreme Court Monitoring of State Courts in the Twenty-First Century, 35 Ind. L. Rev. 335 (2002); and The Three-Judge District Court in Voting Rights Litigation, 30 U. Mich. J. of L. Reform 79 (1996), in Larry W. Yackle, Federal Courts (Carolina Academic Press, 3d ed. 2009).
• Appellate Practice and Procedure: Cases and Materials (Thomson-West, 2d ed. 2005) (with Robert Martineau, Kent Sinclair & Randy Holland), in Thomas E. Baker, A Primer on the Jurisdiction of the U.S. Courts of Appeals (Federal Judicial Center, 2d ed. 2009).
• Rethinking Feminist Judging, 70 Ind. L.J. 891 (1995) (with Susan E. Wheatley), in Susan L. Miller & Shana L. Maier, Moving Beyond Numbers: What Female Judges Say about Different Judicial Voices, 29 J. Women, Politics & Poly 527 (2008).
• Recalibrating Justiciability in Ohio Courts, 51 Clev. St. L. Rev. 531 (2004), in Bradford C. Mank, Standing and Future Generations: Does Massachusetts v. EPA Open Standing for Generations to Come?, 34 Colum. J. Envtl. L. 1 (2009).
• Judicial Influence: A Citation Analysis of Federal Courts of Appeals Judges, 27 J. Legal Stud. 271 (1998) (with William M. Landes & Lawrence Lessig), in Robert J. Hume, The Impact of Judicial Opinion Language in the Transmission of Federal Circuit Court Precedents, 43 Law & Soc’y Rev. 127 (2009).
• 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, L. of Toxic Torts (Clark Boardman Callaghan, Environmental Law Series, 2009).
• The Supreme Court and the DIG: An Empirical and Institutional Analysis, 2005 Wis. L. Rev. 1421 (with Rafael Gely), in Aaron-Andrew P. Bruhl, The Supreme Court's Controversial GVRS--and an Alternative, 107 Mich. L. Rev. 711 (2009); and Carolyn Shapiro, Coding Complexity: Bringing Law to the Empirical Analysis of the Supreme Court, 60 Hastings L.J. 477 (2009).

March 2009

Michael presented his paper, Federal and State Judicial Selection in an Interest Group Prospective (with Rafael Gely), at a symposium at the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law on Mulling over the Missouri Plan: A Review of State Judicial Selection and Retention Systems. The symposium papers will be published in the Missouri Law Review. He moderated a panel discussion at the College on Governor Strickland's Judicial Appointments Recommendation Panels.

Several of Michael’s articles were cited:

• An Economic and Empirical Analysis of Choice of Law, 24 Ga. L. Rev. 49 (1989), The Quiet Revolution in Personal Jurisdiction , 73 Tul. L. Rev. 1 (1998); and Forum-Selection Clauses and the Privatization of Procedure, 25 Cornell Int'l L.J. 51 (1992), in Erin A. O' Hara & Larry E. Ribstein, The Law Market (Oxford University Press 2009).
• The False Promise of Judicial Elections in Ohio, 30 Cap. U.L. Rev. 559 (2002), in Norman L. Greene, Perspectives from the Rule of Law and International Economic Development: Are There Lessons for the Reform of Judicial Selection in the United States? 86 Denv. U.L. Rev. 53 (2008).
• Judicial Influence: A Citation Analysis of Federal Courts of Appeals Judges, 27 J. Legal Stud. 271 (1998) (with William M. Landes and Lawrence Lessig), in Daniel M. Katz, Derek K. Stafford, & Eric Provins, Social Architecture, Judicial Peer Effects and the “Evolution” of the Law: Toward a Positive Theory of Judicial Social Structure, 24 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. 977 (2008).
• Rethinking Exclusive Federal Jurisdiction, 52 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 383 (1991), in Gil Seinfeld, The Federal Courts as a Franchise: Rethinking the Justifications for Federal Question Jurisdiction, 97 Cal. L. Rev. 95 (2009).

February 2009

Michael presented his latest paper, Congress, Separation of Powers, and Standing, at Case Western as part of the Case Western Reserve Law Review Symposium on Access to Courts in the Roberts Era. Michael spoke as part of a panel (with Jessie Hill & Jonathan Adler) on Standing Rights. You can view the webcast here.

Several of Michael’s articles were cited:

• Deregulating Voluntary Dismissals, 32 U. Mich. J. L. Reform 367 (2003) (with Amy Lippert), in Vangelis Economou, Sacking Super Sack: Using Existing Rules to Prevent Patentees from Fleeing an Improvident Patent Infringement Lawsuit, 8 J. Marshall Rev. Intell. Prop. L. 90 (2008).
• An Economic and Empirical Analysis of Choice of Law, 24 Ga. L. Rev. 49 (1989), in Joel P. Trachtman, The Economic Structure of International Law (Harvard University Press 2008).
• The Future of Parity, 46 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 1457 (2005), in Carissa Byrne Hessick & F. Andrew Hessick, Appellate Review of Sentencing Decisions, 60 Ala. L. Rev. 1 (2008).
• Judicial Influence: A Citation Analysis of Federal Courts of Appeals Judges, 27 J. Legal Stud. 271 (1998) (with William M. Landes & Lawrence Lessig), in Richard A. Posner, How Judges Think (Harvard University Press 2008).
• The Next Word: Congressional Response to Supreme Court Statutory Decisions, 65 Temp. L. Rev. 425 (1992) (with James L. Walker), in Frank B. Cross, The Theory and Practice of Statutory Interpretation (Stanford University Press 2009).

January 2009

Michael published:

• Anderson's Ohio Civil Rules Practice with Forms (LexisNexis, 2009 ed.) (with John W. McCormac).
• Congress, Ex Parte Young, and the Fate of the Three-Judge District Court, 70 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 101 (2008).

Michael joined as a signatory in an amicus curiae brief of law professors filed in the case of In re National Security Agency Telecommunications Records Litigation (N.D. Cal.), concerning the constitutionality of 2008 amendments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

Several of Michael’s publications were cited:

• Competitive Federalism and Interstate Recognition of Marriage, 32 Creighton L. Rev. 83 (1998), in Marc R. Poirier, The Cultural Property Claim within the Same-sex Marriage Controversy, 17 Colum. J. Gender & L. 343 (2008).
• An Economic and Empirical Analysis of Choice of Law, 24 Ga. L. Rev. 49 (1989), in Aaron E. Hankel, On the Road to the Merits in Our Federal System: Is the "Forum Defendant Rule" a Procedural Speed Bump or a Jurisdictional Road Block?, 28 Wash. U. J.L. & Pol'y 427 (2008); and Karen Knop, et al., Transdisciplinary Conflict of Laws, 71 Law & Contemp. Prob. 1 (2008).
• Forum-Selection Clauses and the Privatization of Procedure, 25 Cornell Int'l L.J. 51 (1992), in Georgios I. Zekos, Maritime Arbitration and the Rule of Law, 39 J. Mar. L. & Com. 523 (2008).
• Rethinking Feminist Judging, 70 Ind. L.J. 891 (1995) (with Susan E. Wheatley), in Julie Graves Krishnaswami, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor: A Selected Annotated Bibliography, 57 Cath. U. L. Rev. 1099 (2008).
• Revitalizing Interlocutory Appeals in the Federal Courts, 58 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1165 (1990), in Kevin Clermont, Principles of Civil Procedure (Thomson/West, 2d ed. 2009).
• Supreme Court Monitoring of State Courts in the Twenty-First Century, 35 Ind. L. Rev. 335 (2002), in the Honorable Edwin H. Stern, Frustrations of an Intermediate Appellate Judge (And the Benefits of Being One in New Jersey) 60 Rutgers L. Rev. 971 (2008); and Aaron-Andrew P. Bruhl, The Unconscionability Game: Strategic Judging and the Evolution of Federal Arbitration Law, 83 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 1420 (2008).

December 2008

Michael, along with other federal courts professors, filed an amicus curiae brief in the In re National Security Agency Telecommunications Records Litigation (U.S. District Court, N.D. Cal.), on the issue of the constitutionality of the Congressional amendments in 2008 to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, which retroactively extended immunity to several of the defendants in the case.

Several of Michael’s publications were cited:

• 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 Alba Conte & Herbert B. Newberg, Newberg on Class Actions (Thomson/West, 4th ed. 2008 Supp.).
• An Economic and Empirical Analysis of Choice of Law, 24 Ga. L. Rev. 49 (1989), in Karen Knop, Ralf Michaels & Annelise Riles, Forward: Transdisciplinary Conflict of Laws, 71 L. & Contemp. Probs. 1 (2008).
• Judicial Influence: A Citation Analysis of Federal Courts of Appeals Judges, 27 J. Legal Stud. 271 (1998) (with William M. Landes and Lawrence Lessig), in Jonathan Remy Nash & Rafael I. Pardo, An Empirical Investigation into Appellate Structure and the Perceived Quality of Appellate Review, 61 Vand. L. Rev. 1745 (2008).
• The Law and Economics of Conflict of Laws, 4 Am. L. & Econ. Rev. 208 (2002) (reviewing Michael J. Whincop & Mary Keyes, Policy and Pragmatism in the Conflict of Laws (2001)) and An Economic and Empirical Analysis of Choice of Law, 24 Ga. L. Rev. 49 (1989), in Ralf Michaels, Economics of Law as Choice of Law, 71 L. & Contemp. Probs. 73 (2008).
• Recovery of Economic Damages in Product Liability Actions and the Reemergence of Contractual Remedies, 51 Mo. L. Rev. 977 (1986), in Vicki Lawrence MacDougall, Oklahoma Product Liability Law (Thomson West, Oklahoma Practice Series, 2008 Supp.).
• Respecting State Courts: The Inevitability of Judicial Federalism, (Greenwood 1999) (with James L. Walker) and The Future of Parity, 46 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 1457 (2005), in Amanda Frost, Overvaluing Uniformity, 94 Va. L. Rev. 1567 (2008).
• Respecting State Courts: The Inevitability of Judicial Federalism, (Greenwood 1999) (with James L. Walker) and Supreme Court Monitoring of State Courts in the Twenty-First Century, 35 Ind. L. Rev. 335 (2002), in Aaron-Andrew P. Bruhl, The Unconscionability Game: Strategic Judging and the Evolution of Federal Arbitration Law, 83 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 1420 (2008).
• State Court Regulation of Offers of Judgment and Its Lessons For Federal Practice, 13 Ohio St. J. Disp. Res. 51 (1997) (with Bryan Pacheco), in Robert G. Bone, “To Encourage Settlement”: Rule 68, Offers of Judgment, and the History of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, 102 Nw. U. L. Rev. 1561 (2008).
• Supreme Court Monitoring of the United States Courts of Appeals En Banc 9 Sup. Ct. Econ. Rev. 171 (2001) (with Tracey George), in Roger P. Alford, Lower Courts and Constitutional Comparativism, 77 Fordham L. Rev. 647 (2008) and in Tracey E. George & Chris Guthrie, "The Threes": Re-Imagining Supreme Court Decisionmaking, 61 Vand. L. Rev. 1825 (2008).

November 2008

Michael was a signatory to an amicus curiae brief filed by federal procedure scholars in a case to be decided in the 2008 Term by the U.S. Supreme Court, Philip Morris USA Inc. v. Williams, No. 07-1216.

Several of his articles were cited.

• 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 Daniel R. Higginbotham, Buyer Beware: Why the Class Arbitration Waiver Clause Presents a Gloomy Future for Consumers, 58 Duke L.J. 103 (2008); and Michael E. & Jane B. Tigar, Federal Appeals: Jurisdiction & Practice, (Lawyers Cooperative, 3rd ed. 2007 Supp.).
• An Economic and Empirical Analysis of Choice of Law, 24 Ga. L. Rev. 49 (1989), in Daniel P. Kessler & Daniel P. Rubinfeld, Empirical Study of the Civil Justice System, in Handbook of Law and Economics (A. Mitchell Polinsky & Steven Shavell, eds., North-Holland/Elsevier 2007).
• Forum-Selection Clauses and the Privatization of Procedure, 25 Cornell Int'l L.J. 51 (1992), in J. Zachary Courson, Survey: Yavuz v. 61 Mm, Ltd.: A New Federal Standard—Applying Contracting Parties' Choice of Law to the Analysis of Forum Selection Agreements, 85 Denv. U.L. Rev. 597 (2008).
• Judicial Federalism after Bush v. Gore: Some Observations, 23 Just. Sys. J. 45 (2002), in Steven J. Wulf, A Philosophical Theory of Citizenship: Obligation, Authority, and Membership (Lexington Books 2008).
• The Next Word: Congressional Response to Supreme Court Statutory Decisions, 65 Temp. L. Rev. 425 (1992) (with James L. Walker), in Thomas R. Marshall, Public Opinion and the Rehnquist Court (St. U. N.Y. Press 2008).
• Respecting State Courts: The Inevitability of Judicial Federalism (Greenwood 1999) (with James L. Walker), and Congress, Ex parte Young, and the Fate of the Three-Judge District Court, 70 U. Pitt. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2008), in Edward A. Purcell, Jr., The Class Action Fairness Act in Perspective: The Old and the New in Federal Jurisdiction Reform, 156 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1823 (2008).
• Supreme Court Monitoring of State Courts in the Twenty-First Century, 35 Ind. L. Rev. 335 (2002), in Ryan C. Black & James F. Spriggs II, An Empirical Analysis of the Length of U.S. Supreme Court Decisions, 45 Hous. L. Rev . 621 (2008).

October 2008

Several of Michael's articles were cited:

• Diluting Justice on Appeal?: An Examination of the Use of District Court Judges Sitting by Designation on the United States Courts of Appeals, 28 U. Mich. J.L. Reform 351 (1995) (with Richard B. Saphire), in Rochelle Cooper Dreyfuss, In Search of Institutional Identity: The Federal Circuit Comes of Age, 23 Berkeley Tech. L.J. 787 (2008).
• An Economic and Empirical Analysis of Choice of Law, 24 Ga. L. Rev. 49 (1989), in Andrew Eckert, et al., Environmental Liability in Transboundary Harms: Law and Forum Choice, 24 J. L. Econ. & Org. 434 (2008), and Alan O. Sykes, Transnational Forum Shopping as a Trade and Investment Issue, 37 J. Legal Stud. 339 (2008).
• Judicial Influence: A Citation Analysis of Federal Courts of Appeals Judges, 27 J. Legal Stud. 271 (1998) (with William M. Landes & Lawrence Lessig), in Joel N. Shapiro, Mediation in the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, 32 S. Ill. U. L.J. 569 (2008), and in Frank B. Cross, Thomas A. Smith & Antonio Tomarchio, The Reagan Revolution in the Network of Law, 57 Emory L.J. 1227 (2008).
• State Court Protection of Federal Constitutional Rights, 12 Harv. J.L. Pub. Pol'y 127 (1989) (with James Walker), in Risa E. Kaufman, Access to the Courts as a Privilege or Immunity of National Citizenship, 40 Conn. L. Rev. 1477 (2008).
• State Court Regulation of Offers of Judgment and Its Lessons For Federal Practice, 13 Ohio St. J. Disp. Resol. 51 (1997) (with Bryan Pacheco), in Jay M. Feinman, Incentives for Litigation or Settlement in Large Tort Cases: Responding to Insurance Company Intransigence, 13 Roger Williams U. L. Rev. 189 (2008).
• Supreme Court Monitoring of the United States Courts of Appeals En Banc, 9 Sup. Ct. Econ. Rev. 171 (2001) (with Tracey George), in Jonathan P. Kastellec & Jeffrey R. Lax, Case Selection and the Study of Judicial Politics, 5 J. Empirical Legal Stud. 407 (2008).

Summer 2008

Michael's article, The Supreme Court and the Sophisticated Use of DIGs (with Rafael Gely), was accepted for publication in the Supreme Court Economic Review.

Several of Michael's publications were cited:

• Judicial Reputation: A Citation Analysis of Federal Courts of Appeals Judges, 27 J. Legal Stud. 271 (1998) (with William M. Landes and Lawrence Lessig), in Stephen J. Choi & G. Mitu Gulati, Bias in Judicial Citations: A Window into the Behavior of Judges?, 37 J. Legal Stud. 87 (2008); Stephen J. Choi & G. Mitu Gulati, Trading Votes for Reasoning: Covering in Judicial Opinions, 81 S. Cal. L. Rev. 735 (2008); Christopher Zorn, et al., Working Class Judges, 88 B.U. L. Rev. 829 (2008); and Frank B. Cross, et al., The Reagan Revolution in the Network of Law, 57 Emory L.J. 1227 (2008).
• The Three-Judge District Court in Voting Rights Litigation, 30 U. Mich. J.L. Reform 79 (1996), in Samuel Issacharoff, et al., The Law of Democracy: Legal Structure of the Political Process (Foundation Press, 3d ed. 2007); Daniel Hays Lowenstein, et al., Election Law: Cases and Materials (Carolina Academic Press, 4th ed. 2008); and Charles Alan Wright, et al., Federal Courts (Foundation Press, 12th ed. 2008).
• The Future of Parity, 46 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 1457 (2005), in Richard B. Saphire & Paul Moke, The Ideologies of Judicial Selection: Empiricism and the Transformation of the Judicial Selection Debate, 39 U. Tol. L. Rev. 551 (2008); Steven M. Shepard, The Case Against Automatic Reversal of Structural Errors, 117 Yale L.J. 1180 (2008).
• The False Promise of Judicial Elections in Ohio, 30 Cap. U.L. Rev. 559 (2002), in Richard B. Saphire & Paul Moke, The Ideologies of Judicial Selection: Empiricism and the Transformation of the Judicial Selection Debate, 39 U. Tol. L. Rev. 551 (2008).
• Constitutional Litigation in Federal and State Courts: An Empirical Analysis of Judicial Parity, 10 Hastings Const'l L.Q. 213 (1983) (with James L. Walker), in Erwin Chemerinsky, Enhancing Government: Federalism for the 21st Century (Stanford University Press 2008); and Richard B. Saphire & Paul Moke, The Ideologies of Judicial Selection: Empiricism and the Transformation of the Judicial Selection Debate, 39 U. Tol. L. Rev. 551 (2008).
• 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 Linda S. Mullenix, Mass Tort Litigation (Thomson/West, 2d ed. 2008); and Jack H. Friedenthal, et al., Civil Procedure: Cases and Materials (Thomson/West, rev. 9th ed. 2008).
• The Next Word: Congressional Response to Supreme Court Statutory Decisions, 65 Temple L. Rev. 425 (1992) (with James L. Walker), in Alexander Volokh, Choosing Interpretative Methods: A Positive Theory of Judges and Everyone Else, 83 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 769 (2008); and Leslie Reed, Is a Free Public Education Really Free? How the Denial of Expert Witness Fees Will Adversely Impact Children with Autism, 45 San Diego L. Rev. 251 (2008).
• The Supreme Court and the DIG: An Empirical and Institutional Analysis, 2005 Wis. L.Rev. 1421 (with Rafael Gely), in Susan Low Bloch, et al., Inside the Supreme Court: The Institution and Its Procedures (Thomson/West, 2d ed. 2008); and Henry M. Hart & Herbert Wechsler, The Federal Courts and the Federal System (Foundation Press, 5th ed. 2008 Supp.).
• Supreme Court Monitoring of State Courts in the Twenty-First Century, 35 Ind. L. Rev. 335 (2002), in Susan Low Bloch, et al., Inside the Supreme Court: The Institution and Its Procedures (Thomson/West 2d ed. 2008); and Jack H. Friedenthal, et al., Civil Procedure: Cases and Materials (Thomson/West, rev. 9th ed. 2008).
• Revitalizing Interlocutory Appeals in the Federal Courts, 58 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1165 (1990), in Stephen C. Yeazell, Civil Procedure (Aspen, 7th ed. 2008); and Richard D. Freer, et al., Civil Procedure: Cases, Materials, and Questions (MatthewBender/LexisNexis, 5th ed. 2008).
• Forum-Selection Clauses and the Privatization of Procedure, 25 Cornell Int'l L.J. 51 (1992), in Jack H. Friedenthal, et al., Civil Procedure: Cases and Materials (Thomson/West, rev. 9th ed. 2008); and Patrick J. Borchers, Categorical Exceptions to Party Autonomy in Private International Law, 82 Tul. L. Rev. 1645 (2008).
• Deregulating Voluntary Dismissals, 32 U. Mich. J. L. Reform 367 (2003) (with Amy Lippert), in Jack H. Friedenthal, et al., Civil Procedure: Cases and Materials (Thomson/West, rev. 9th ed. 2008); Stephen N. Subrin, et al., Civil Procedure: Doctrine, Practice and Context (Aspen, 3d ed. 2008); and Richard D. Freer, et al., Civil Procedure: Cases, Materials, and Questions (MatthewBender/LexisNexis, 5th ed. 2008).
• Formalism, Pragmatism, and the Conservative Critique of the Eleventh Amendment, 101 Mich. L. Rev. 1463 (2003), in Henry M. Hart & Herbert Wechsler, The Federal Courts and the Federal System (Foundation Press, 5th ed. 2008 Supp.).
• The Quiet Revolution in Personal Jurisdiction, 73 Tul. L. Rev. 1 (1998), in Richard D. Freer, et al., Civil Procedure: Cases, Materials, and Questions (MatthewBender/LexisNexis, 5th ed. 2008).
• Status Seeking and the Allure and Limits of Law School Rankings, 81 Ind. L.J. 299 (2006), in Andrew P. Morriss & William D. Henderson, Measured Outcomes: Post-Graduation Measures of Success in the U.S. News & World Report School Rankings, 83 Ind. L.J. 791 (2008).
• Recalibrating Justiciability in Ohio Courts, 51 Clev. St. L. Rev. 531 (2004), in Kimberly Breedon, Remedial Problems at the Intersection of the Political Question Doctrine, the Standing Doctrine, and the Doctrine of Equitable Discretion, 34 Ohio N.U. L. Rev. 523 (2008).
• State Court Regulation of Offers of Judgment and Its Lessons For Federal Practice, 13 Ohio St. J. Disp. Res. 51 (1997) (with Bryan Pacheco), in Jay M. Feinman, Responding to Insurance Company Intransigence, 13 Roger Williams U. L. Rev. 189 (2008).
• An Economic and Empirical Analysis of Choice of Law, 24 Ga. L. Rev. 49 (1989), in Russell J. Weintraub, The Choice-of-Law Rules of the European Community Regulation on the Law Applicable to Non-Contractual Obligations: Simple and Predictable, Consequences-Based, or Neither?, 43 Tex. Intl. L.J. 401 (2008).
• Congress, Ex Parte Young, and the Fate of the Three-Judge District Court, 70 U. Pitt. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2008), in Charles Alan Wright, et al., Federal Courts (Foundation Press, 12th ed. 2008).

June 2008

Michael published Institutional Process, Agenda Setting, and the Development of Election Law on the Supreme Court, 68 Ohio St. L.J. 767 (2007). He spoke at a forum in Cincinnati Judicial Independence in Ohio, sponsored by Common Cause and the Ohio League of Woman Voters.

Several of Michael's articles were cited:

• Constitutional Litigation in Federal and State Courts: An Empirical Analysis of Judicial Parity, 10 Hastings Const'l L.Q. 213 (1983) (with James L. Walker), in George D. Brown, Political Judges and Popular Justice: A Conservative Victory or a Conservative Dilemma?, 49 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 1543 (2008).
• 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 Richard D. Freer, Interlocutory Review of Class Action Certification Decisions: a Preliminary Empirical Study of Federal and State Experience, 35 W. St. U. L. Rev. 13 (2007); and David F. Herr & Roger S. Haydock , Civil Rules Annotated (Thomson West, 4th ed., 2008 Supp.).
• Deregulating Voluntary Dismissals, 32 U. Mich. J. L. Reform 367 (2003) (with Amy Lippert), in Lance P. McMillan, The Nuisance Settlement "Problem": The Elusive Truth and a Clarifying Proposal, 31 Am. J. Trial Advoc. 221 (2007).
• Forum-Selection Clauses and the Privatization of Procedure, 25 Cornell Int'l L.J. 51 (1992), in David Marcus, The Perils of Contract Procedure: A Revised History of Forum Selection Clauses in the Federal Courts, 82 Tul. L. Rev. 973 (2008).
• Judicial Influence: A Citation Analysis of Federal Courts of Appeals Judges, 27 J. Legal Stud. 271 (1998) (with William M. Landes & Lawrence Lessig), in Dietrich Fausten, Ingrid Nielsen & Russell Smyth, A Century of Citation Practice on the Supreme Court of Victoria, 31 Melb. U. L. Rev. 733 (2007).
• The Quiet Revolution in Personal Jurisdiction, 73 Tul. L. Rev. 1 (1998), in Mark A. Hall & Ronald F. Wright, Systematic Content Analysis of Judicial Opinions, 96 Cal. L. Rev. 63 (2008).
• Recalibrating Justiciability in Ohio Courts, 51 Clev. St. L. Rev. 531 (2004), in Bradford Mank, Should States Have Greater Standing Rights Than Ordinary Citizens?: Massachusetts v. EPA's New Standing Test for States, 49 Wm & Mary L. Rev. 1701 (2008); and James W. Doggett, "Trickle Down" Constitutional Interpretation: Should Federal Limits on Legislative Conferral of Standing Be Imported into State Constitutional Law?, 108 Colum. L. Rev. 839 (2008).
• Rethinking Exclusive Federal Jurisdiction, 52 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 383 (1991), in Thomas O. Main, Reconsidering Procedural Conformity Statutes, 35 W. St. U. L. Rev. 75 (2007).
• Rethinking Feminist Judging, 70 Ind. L.J. 891 (1995) (with Susan E. Wheatley), in Gregory C. Sisk, The Quantitative Moment and the Qualitative Opportunity: Legal Studies of Judicial Decision Making, 93 Cornell L. Rev. 873 (2008).
• 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 Mark C. Rahdert, Double-checking Executive Emergency Power: Lessons from Hamdi and Hamdan, 80 Temp. L. Rev. 451 (2007).

May 2008

Michael presented Congress, Ex Parte Young, and the Fate of the Three-Judge District Court, 70 U. Pitt. L. Rev. ___ (2008), at a panel on Changing Conceptions of Rights at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association in Chicago.

Several of Michael's articles were cited:

• Choice of Law in the American Courts in 1991, 40 Am. J. Comp. L. 951 (1992), in Symeon C. Symeonides, Choice of Law in the American Courts in 2007: Twenty-first Annual Survey, 56 Am. J. Comp. L. 243 (2008).
• 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 David A. Hoffman et al., Docketology, District Courts, and Doctrine, 85 Wash. U. L. Rev. 681 (2007).
• Federalism, Liberty and State Constitutional Law, 23 Ohio N.U. L. Rev. 1457 (1997) (with James L. Walker), in Thomas B. McAfee et al., The Automobile Exception in Nevada: A Critique of the Harnisch Cases, 8 Nev. L.J. 622 (2008).
• Ideology and En Banc Review, 67 N.C. L. Rev. 29 (1988), in Paul G. Ulrich, P.C. and Sidley Austin, Brown & Wood, LLP, Federal Appellate Practice Guide 9th Circuit (Lawyers Cooperative, 2nd ed., 2008 Supp.); and in Wendy L. Martinek, Appellate Workhorses of the Federal Judiciary: The U.S. Court of Appeals in Exploring Judicial Politics (Mark C. Miller, ed., Oxford University Press, 2009).
• The Next Word: Congressional Response to Supreme Court Statutory Decisions, 65 Temple L. Rev. 425 (1992) (with James L. Walker), in Einer Elhauge, Statutory Default Rules: How to Interpret Unclear Legislation (Harvard, 2008).
• Respecting State Courts: The Inevitability of Judicial Federalism, (Greenwood Press, 1999) (with James L. Walker), in Frederick M. Bloom, State Courts Unbound, 93 Cornell L. Rev. 501 (2008); and in Adam Benforado & Jon Hanson, The Great Attributional Divide: How Divergent Views of Human Behavior Are Shaping Legal Policy, 57 Emory L.J. 311 (2008).
• Rethinking Exclusive Federal Jurisdiction, 52 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 383 (1991), in Daniel A. Crane, Antitrust Antifederalism, 96 Cal. L. Rev. 1 (2008).
• Supreme Court Monitoring of State Courts in the Twenty-First Century, 35 Ind. L. Rev. 335 (2002), in Matthew L. M. Fletcher, The Supreme Court's Indian Problem, 59 Hastings L.J. 579 (2008); and in Timothy S. Bishop et al., Tips on Petitioning for and Opposing Certiorari in the U.S. Supreme Court, 34 Litigation 26 (2008).

April 2008

Michael's article, Congress, Ex parte Young, and the Fate of the Three-Judge District Court, was accepted for publication in the University of Pittsburgh Law Review.

Several of Michael's publications were cited:

• Constitutional Litigation in Federal and State Courts: An Empirical Analysis of Judicial Parity, 10 Hastings Const'l L.Q. 213 (1983) (with James L. Walker), in Michael H. LeRoy, Misguided Fairness? Regulating Arbitration by Statute: Empirical Evidence of Declining Award Finality, 83 Notre Dame L. Rev. 551 (2008).
• 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, Environmental Law Series, 2008 Supp.).
• The Future of Parity, 46 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 1457 (2005) and Respecting State Courts: The Inevitability of Judicial Federalism (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Publishing, 1999) (with James L. Walker), in John F. Preis, Alternative State Remedies in Constitutional Torts, 40 Conn. L. Rev. 723 (2008).
• The Next Word: Congressional Response to Supreme Court Statutory Decisions, 65 Temp. L. Rev. 425 (1992) (with James L. Walker), in Howard M. Wasserman, Jurisdiction, Merits, and Non-extant Rights, 56 U. Kan. L. Rev. 227 (2008).
• The Quiet Revolution in Personal Jurisdiction, 73 Tul. L. Rev. 1 (1998), in Larry E. Ribstein & Erin Ann O'Hara, Corporations and the Market for Law, 2008 U. Ill. L. Rev. 661.
• Supreme Court Monitoring of the United States Court of Appeals En Banc, 9 Sup. Ct. Econ. Rev. 171 (2001) (with Tracey George), in Tracey E. George, Chief Judges: The Limits of Attitudinal Theory and Possible Paradox of Managerial Judging, 61 Vand. L. Rev. 1 (2008).

March 2008

Several of Michael's articles were cited:

• 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), and The Future of Parity, 46 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 1457 (2005), in Charles R. Flores, Appealing Class Action Certification Decisions Under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(f), 4 Seton Hall Cir. Rev. 27 (2007); and Barry Sullivan & Amy Kobelski Trueblood, Rule 23(f): A Note on the Law and Discretion in the Courts of Appeals, 246 F.R.D. 277 (2008).
• Judicial Influence: A Citation Analysis of Federal Courts of Appeals Judges, 27 J. Legal Stud. 271 (1998) (with William M. Landes & Lawrence Lessig), in James H. Fowler & Sangick Jeon, The Authority of Supreme Court Precedent, 30 Social Networks 16 (2008).
• An Economic and Empirical Analysis of Choice of Law, 24 Ga. L. Rev. 49 (1989), in Charles W. �Rocky� Rhodes, Liberty, Substantive Due Process, and Personal Jurisdiction, 82 Tul. L. Rev. 567 (2007).
• Respecting State Courts: The Inevitability of Judicial Federalism, (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Publishing, 1999) (with James L. Walker), in J. Mitchell Pickerill & Paul Chen, Medical Marijuana Policy and the Virtues of Federalism, 38 Publius J. Fed. 22 (2008).

February 2008

Michael presented his paper, Congress, Ex parte Young, and the Fate of the Three-Judge District Court, at a faculty workshop at Villanova as part of the Scholar Exchange Program.

Several of his books and articles were cited:

• Supreme Court Monitoring of the United States Court of Appeals En Banc, 9 Sup. Ct. Econ. Rev. 171 (2001) (with Tracey George), and The Supreme Court and the DIG: An Empirical and Institutional Analysis, 2005 Wis. L.Rev. 1421(with Rafael Gely), in Eugene Gressman, et al., Supreme Court Practice (BNA Books, 9th ed. 2007).
• Formalism, Pragmatism, and the Conservative Critique of the Eleventh Amendment, 101 Mich. L. Rev.1463 (2003) (reviewing John T. Noonan, Narrowing the Court's Power: The Supreme Court Sides with the States (2002)), Removal, Remands, and Reforming Federal Appellate Review, 58 Mo. L. Rev. 287 (1993), Rethinking Exclusive Federal Jurisdiction, 52 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 383 (1991), Supreme Court Monitoring of State Courts in the Twenty-First Century, 35 Ind. L. Rev. 335 (2002), Constitutional Litigation in Federal and State Courts: An Empirical Analysis of Judicial Parity, 10 Hastings Const'l L.Q. 213 (1983) (with James L. Walker), and 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 Peter W. Low & John C. Jeffries, Jr., Federal Courts and the Law of Federal-State Relations (Foundation Press, 6th ed. 2007).
• Supreme Court Monitoring of State Courts in the Twenty-First Century, 35 Ind. L. Rev. 335 (2002), in Robert J. Pushaw, Jr., A Neo-Federalist Analysis of Federal Question Jurisdiction, 95 Cal. L. Rev. 1515 (2007).
• The Future of Parity, 46 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 1457 (2005), in Kermit Roosevelt, III, A Retroactivity Retrospective, with Thoughts for the Future: What the Supreme Court Learned from Paul Mishkin, and What it Might, 95 Cal. L. Rev. 1677 (2007).
• The Impact of Babcock v. Jackson: An Empirical Note, 56 Alb. L. Rev. 773 (1993), and Judicial Influence: A Citation Analysis of Federal Courts of Appeals Judges,, 27 J. Legal Stud. 271 (1998) (with William Landes & Lawrence Lessig), in Jake Dear & Edward W. Jessen, “Followed Rates” and Leading State Cases, 1940-2005, 41 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 683 (2007).

January 2008

His article, The Law and Economics of Conflict of Laws, 4 Am. L. & Econ. Rev. 208 (2002), was reprinted in 1 Economics of Conflict of Laws (Edward Elgar, Erin A. O'Hara, ed., 2007). He was referenced in Paul Edelman & Tracey George, Six Degrees of Cass Sunstein: Collaboration Networks in Legal Scholarship, 11 Green Bag.2d 19 (2007).

Several of Michael's articles were cited:

• 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 David F. Herr, Annotated Manual for Complex Litigation (Thomson West, 4th ed., 2007) and in David F. Herr & Roger S. Haydock , Civil Rules Annotated (West, 4th ed. Minnesota Practice Series, 2007 Supp.).
• Enforcement and Interpretation of Settlements of Federal Civil Rights Actions, 19 Rutgers L.J. 295 (1988), in Rhonda Wasserman, The Curious Complications with Back-end Opt-out Rights, 49 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 373 (2007).
• Institutional Process, Agenda Setting, and the Development of Election Law on the Supreme Court, 68 Ohio St. L.J. 767 (2007), in Edward B. Foley, The Future of Bush v. Gore? 68 Ohio St. L.J. 925 (2007) and in Daniel P. Tokaji, Leave It to the Lower Courts: On Judicial Intervention in Election Administration, 68 Ohio St. L. J. 1065 (2007).
• Recovery of Economic Damages in Product Liability Actions and the Reemergence of Contractual Remedies, 51 Mo. L. Rev. 977 (1986), in Vicki Lawrence MacDougall, Oklahoma Product Liability Law (Thomson West, Oklahoma Practice Series, 2007).
• Revitalizing Interlocutory Appeals in the Federal Courts, 58 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1165 (1990), Removal, Remands, and Reforming Federal Appellate Review, 58 Mo. L. Rev. 287 (1993), and 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 Adam M. Steinman, Reinventing Appellate Jurisdiction, 48 B.C. L. Rev. 1237 (2007).
• The Supreme Court and the DIG: An Empirical and Institutional Analysis, 2005 Wis. L.Rev. 1421(with Rafael Gely), in Megan Martha Reed, RICO at the Border: Interpreting Anza v. Ideal Steel Supply Corp. and its Effect on Immigration Enforcement, 64 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 1243 (2007).
• Respecting State Courts: The Inevitability of Judicial Federalism (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Pub., 1999) (with James L. Walker), Supreme Court Monitoring of State Courts in the Twenty-First Century, 35 Ind. L. Rev. 335 (2002), The Future of Parity, 46 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 1457 (2005), and State Court Protection of Federal Constitutional Rights, 12 Harv. J.L. Pub. Pol'y 127 (1989), in Jason Mazzone, The Bill of Rights in the Early State Courts, 92 Minn. L. Rev. 1 (2007).

December 2007

Michael posted Congress, Ex Parte Young, and the Fate of the Three-Judge District Court on SSRN and presented the paper at the Ohio State Legal History Seminar. The paper was featured on the Legal History Blog, edited by Mary L. Dudziak (USC).

Several of Michael's books and articles were cited:

• Respecting State Courts: The Inevitability of Judicial Federalism (Greenwood Publishing, 1999) (with James L. Walker) in Marcia L. McCormick, When Worlds Collide: Federal Construction of State Institutional Competence, 9 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 1167 (2007); and Craig A. Nard & John F. Duffy, Rethinking Patent Law's Uniformity Principle, 101 Nw. U. L. Rev. 1619 (2007).
• 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 E. & Jane B. Tigar, Federal Appeals: Jurisdiction & Practice, (Lawyers Cooperative, 3rd ed. 2007 Supp.).
• Judicial Federalism After Bush v. Gore: Some Observations, 23 Just. Sys. J. 45 (2002), in Paul M. Collins, Towards an Integrated Model of the U.S. Supreme Court's Federalism Decision Making, 37 Publius: The Journal of Federalism 505 (2007).
• 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 Timothy C. Hodits, The Fatal Flaw of Standing: A Proposal for an Article I Tribunal for Environmental Claims, 84 Wash. U. L. Rev. 1907 (2006).
• State Court Regulation of Offers of Judgment and Its Lessons For Federal Practice, 13 Ohio St. J. Disp. Res. 51 (1997) (with Bryan Pacheco), in Elaine A. Grafton Carlson & Roy McDonald, McDonald & Carlson Texas Civil Practice, (Lawyers Cooperative, 2nd ed., 2007 Supp.).
• Supreme Court Monitoring of State Courts in the Twenty-First Century, 35 Ind. L. Rev. 335 (2002); Constitutional Litigation in Federal and State Courts: An Empirical Analysis of Judicial Parity, 10 Hastings Const'l L.Q. 213 (1983) (with James L. Walker); The Future of Parity, 46 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 1457 (2005); and Rethinking Exclusive Federal Jurisdiction, 52 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 383 (1991), in Marcia L. McCormick, When Worlds Collide: Federal Construction of State Institutional Competence, 9 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 1167 (2007).

November 2007

Several of Michael's articles were cited:

• Judicial Influence: A Citation Analysis of Federal Courts of Appeals Judges, 27 J. Legal Stud. 271 (1998) (with William M. Landes & Lawrence Lessig), in Thomas A. Smith, The Web of Law, 44 San Diego L. Rev. 309 (2007).
• The Next Word: Congressional Response to Supreme Court Statutory Decisions, 65 Temple L. Rev. 425 (1992) (with James L. Walker), in Edward A. Fitzgerald, Dysfunctional Downlisting Defeated: Defenders of Wildlife v. Secretary, U.S. Department of the Interior, 34 B.C. Envtl. Aff. L. Rev. 37 (2007); and Nancy C. Staudt, Rene Lindstadt & Jason O'Connor, Judicial Decisions as Legislation: Congressional Oversight of Supreme Court Tax Cases, 1954-2005, 82 N.Y.U.L. Rev. 1340 (2007).
• The Quiet Revolution in Personal Jurisdiction, 73 Tul. L. Rev. 1 (1998), in John A. E. Pottow, The Myth (and Realities) of Forum Shopping in Transnational Insolvency, 32 Brook. J. Int'l L. 785 (2007).
• The Supreme Court and the DIG: An Empirical and Institutional Analysis, 2005 Wis. L.Rev. 1421(with Rafael Gely), in Stephen L. Wasby & Jolly A. Emrey, Of Note, 28 Just. Sys. J. 117 (2007).

October 2007

Several of Michael's articles were cited:

• Constitutional Litigation in Federal and State Courts: An Empirical Analysis of Judicial Parity, 10 Hastings Const. L.Q. 213 (1983) (with James L. Walker), in Erwin Chemerinsky, Federal Jurisdiction (Aspen, 7th ed., 2007), and Gary S. Gildin, The Sanctity of Religious Liberty of Minority Faiths under State Constitutions: Three Hypotheses, 6 U. Md. L.J. Race, Religion, Gender & Class 21 (2006).
• An Economic and Empirical Analysis of Choice of Law, 24 Ga. L. Rev. 49 (1989), in Keith N. Hylton, Torts and Choice of Law: Searching for Principles, 56 J. Legal Educ. 551 (2006).
• Enforcement and Interpretation of Settlements of Federal Civil Rights Actions, 19 Rutgers L.J. 295 (1988), in John C. Jeffries, et al., Civil Rights Actions: Enforcing the Constitution (Foundation Press, 2d ed., 2007).
• Formalism, Pragmatism, and the Conservative Critique of the Eleventh Amendment, 101 Mich. L. Rev. 1463 (2003), and The Supreme Court and the DIG: An Empirical and Institutional Analysis, 2005 Wis. L. Rev. 1421 (with Rafael Gely), in Richard H. Fallon, et al., Hart and Wechsler's The Federal Courts and the Federal System (Foundation Press, 2007 Supp.).
• Ideology and En Banc Review, 67 N.C. L. Rev. 29 (1988), and Supreme Court Monitoring of the United States Courts of Appeals En Banc, 9 Sup. Ct. Econ. Rev. 171 (2001) (with Tracey George), in Micheal W. Giles, et al., The Etiology of the Occurrence of En Banc Review in the U.S. Court of Appeals, 51 Am. J. Pol. Sci. 449 (2007).
• Judicial Influence: A Citation Analysis of Federal Courts of Appeals Judges, 27 J. Legal Stud. 271 (1998) (with William M. Landes & Lawrence Lessig), in Frank B. Cross, Decision Making in the U.S. Courts of Appeals (Stanford University Press 2007); James H. Fowler, et al., Network Analysis and the Law: Measuring the Legal Importance of Precedents at the U.S. Supreme Court, 15 Pol. Analysis 324 (2007); and Leigh Anne Williams, Measuring Internal Influence on the Rehnquist Court: An Analysis of Non-Majority Opinion Joining Behavior, 68 Ohio St. L.J. 679 (2007).
• The Quiet Revolution in Personal Jurisdiction, 73 Tul. L. Rev. 1 (1998), in Roxanne Barton Conlin & Gregory S. Cusimano, eds., ATLA's Litigating Tort Cases (Thomson West, 2007 Supp.).
• Nepotism in the Federal Judiciary, 71 U. Cin. L. Rev. 563 (2002), in Aaron-Andrew P. Bruhl, If the Judicial Confirmation Process is Broken, Can a Statute Fix It?, 85 Neb. L. Rev. 960 (2007).
• The Next Word: Congressional Response to Supreme Court Statutory Decisions, 65 Temp. L. Rev. 425 (1992) (with James L. Walker), in Michelle Schuld, Statutory Misinterpretation: Small v. United States Darkens the Already Murky Waters of Statutory Interpretation, 40 Akron L. Rev. 751 (2007).
• Recalibrating Justiciability in Ohio Courts, 51 Clev. St. L. Rev. 531 (2004), in Jonathan L. Entin & Shadya Y. Yazback, City Governments and Predatory Lending, 34 Fordham Urban L.J. 757 (2007), and in Brinkman v. Miami University, No. CA2006-12-313, 2007 Ohio App. LEXIS 3910 (OH 12th App. Dist. August 27, 2007).
• Removal, Remands, and Reforming Federal Appellate Review, 58 Mo. L. Rev. 287 (1993), in Adam N. Steinman, “Less” is “More”? Textualism, Intentionalism, and a Better Solution to the Class Action Reform Act's Appellate Deadline Riddle, 92 Iowa L. Rev. 1183 (2007).
• Respecting State Courts: The Inevitability of Judicial Federalism (Greenwood Press 1999) (with James L. Walker), in Erwin Chemerinsky, Federal Jurisdiction (Aspen, 7th ed. 2007), and in Laura E. Little, Federal Courts: Examples and Explanations (Aspen 2007).
• Rethinking Exclusive Federal Jurisdiction, 52 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 383 (1991); Constitutional Litigation in Federal and State Courts: An Empirical Analysis of Judicial Parity, 10 Hastings Const'l L.Q. 213 (1983) (with James L. Walker); and State Court Protection of Federal Constitutional Rights, 12 Harv. J.L. Pub. Pol'y 127 (1989), in Catherine M. Sharkey, Federalism in Action: FDA Regulatory Preemption in Pharmaceutical Cases in State Versus Federal Courts, 15 J.L. & Pol'y 1013 (2007).
• Rethinking Feminist Judging, 70 Ind. L.J. 891 (1995) (with Susan E. Wheatley), in Theresa M. Beiner, Diversity on the Bench and the Quest for Justice for All, 33 Ohio N.U. L. Rev. 481 (2007); and Erika Rackley, From Arachone to Charlotte: An Imaginative Revisiting of Gilligan's In a Different Voice, 13 Wm. & Mary J. Women & L. 751 (2007).
• Status Seeking and the Allure and Limits of Law School Rankings, 81 Ind. L.J. 299 (2006), in Theodore P. Seto, Understanding the U.S. News Law School Rankings, 60 SMU L. Rev. 493 (2007).
• Supreme Court Monitoring of the United States Court of Appeals En Banc, 9 Sup. Ct. Econ. Rev. 171 (2001) (with Tracey George), in Tonja Jacobi & Emerson H. Tiller, Legal Doctrine and Political Control, 23 J. L. Econ. & Org. 326 (2007).
• The Three-Judge District Court in Voting Rights Litigation, 30 U. Mich. J. L. Reform 67 (1996), in Samuel Issacharoff et al., The Law of Democracy: Legal Structure of the Political Process (Foundation Press, 3d ed., 2007).

Summer 2007

Michael published Institutional Process, Agenda Setting, and the Development of Election Law on the Supreme Court, 68 Ohio St. L.J 767 (2007), as part of a Symposium on Election Law and the Roberts Court.

Several of Michael's books and articles were cited:

• Respecting State Courts: The Inevitability of Judicial Federalism (Greenwood Press, 1999) (with James L. Walker), in Erwin Chemerinsky, Federal Jurisdiction (Aspen, 7th ed. 2007); and Laura E. Little, Federal Courts: Examples and Explanations (Aspen, 2007).
• Competitive Federalism and Interstate Recognition of Marriage, 32 Creighton L. Rev. 83 (1998), in Kerry Abrams, Immigration Law and the Regulation of Marriage, 91 Minn. L. Rev. 1625 (2007).
• 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, 2007 Supp.); and David F. Herr, Annotated Manual For Complex Litigation (Thomson-West, 2007).
• Diluting Justice on Appeal?: An Examination of the Use of District Court Judges Sitting by Designation on the United States Courts of Appeals, 28 U. Mich. J.L. Reform 351 (1995) (with Richard B. Saphire ), in David R. Stras, Why Supreme Court Justices Should Ride Circuit Again, 91 Minn. L. Rev. 1710 (2007).
• The False Promise of Judicial Elections in Ohio, 30 Cap. U.L. Rev. 559 (2002), in Leita Walker, Protecting Judges from White's Aftermath: How the Public-Employee Speech Doctrine Might Help Judges and the Courts in Which They Work, 20 Geo. J. Legal Ethics 371 (2007).
• Forum-Selection Clauses and the Privatization of Procedure, 25 Cornell Int'l L.J. 51 (1992), in Michael L. Moffitt, Customized Litigation: The Case for Making Civil Procedure Negotiable, 75 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 461 (2007).
• Institutional Process, Agenda Setting, and the Development of Election Law on the Supreme Court, 68 Ohio St. L.J 767 (2007), in Edward B. Foley, Election Law and the Roberts Court: An Introduction, 68 Ohio St. L.J. 733 (2007); Michael J. Pitts, Defining “Partisan” Law Enforcement, 18 Stan. L. & Pol'y Rev. 324 (2007); and Pamela S. Karlan, New Beginnings and Dead Ends in the Law of Democracy, 68 Ohio St. L.J. 743 (2007).
• Judicial Influence: A Citation Analysis of Federal Courts of Appeals Judges, 27 J. Legal Stud. 271 (1998) (with William M. Landes & Lawrence Lessig), in Leigh Anne Williams, Measuring Internal Influence on the Rehnquist Court: An Analysis of Non-Majority Opinion Joining Behavior, 68 Ohio St. L.J. 679 (2007).
• Nepotism in the Federal Judiciary, 71 U. Cin. L. Rev. 563 (2002), in Vicki C. Jackson, Packages of Judicial Independence: The Selection and Tenure of Article III Judges, 95 Geo. L.J. 965 (2007).
• The Quiet Revolution in Personal Jurisdiction, 73 Tul. L. Rev. 1 (1998), in James R. Pratt & Bruce J. McKee, ATLA's Litigating Tort Cases (Roxanne Barton Conlin & Gregory S. Cusimano, eds, Thomson-West, 2007 Supp.)

June 2007

Several of Michael's articles were cited:

• The Supreme Court and the DIG: An Institutional and Empirical Analysis, 2005 Wis. L. Rev. 1421 (with Rafael Gely), in Peter B. Rutledge, Clerks, 74 U. Chi. L. Rev. 369 (2007); and Stefanie A. Lindquist, Bureaucratization and Balkanization: The Origins and Effects of Decision-Making Norms in the Federal Appellate Courts, 41 U. Richmond L. Rev. 659 (2007).
• The False Promise of Judicial Elections in Ohio, 30 Cap. U. L. Rev. 559 (2002), in Brian F. Schaffner & Jennifer Segal Diascro, Judicial Elections in the News, in Running for Judge: The Rising Political, Financial and Legal Stakes of Judicial Elections (Matthew J. Streb, ed.) (NYU Press, 2007); and Herbert M. Kritzer, Law is the Mere Continuation of Politics by Different Means: American Judicial Selection in the Twenty-First Century, 56 DePaul L. Rev. 423 (2007).
• Nepotism in the Federal Judiciary, 71 U. Cin. L. Rev. 563 (2002), in Vicki C. Jackson, Packages of Judicial Independence: The Selection and Tenure of Article III Judges, 95 Geo. L.J. 965 (2007).
• Judicial Reputation: A Citation Analysis of Federal Courts of Appeals Judges, 27 J. Legal. Stud. 271 (1998) (with William Landes & Lawrence Lessig), in Christine Hurt, The Bluebook at Eighteen: Reflecting and Ratifying Current Trends in Legal Scholarship, 82 Ind. L.J. 49 (2007); Stephen J. Choi & G. Mitu Gulati, Ranking Judges According to Citation Bias (As a Means to Reduce Bias), 82 Notre Dame L. Rev. 1279 (2007); and Joshua C. Teitelbaum, Age and Tenure of the Justices and Productivity of the Supreme Court: Are Term Limits Necessary?, 34 Fla. St. U. L. Rev. 161 (2006).
• Constitutional Restrictions on the Partisan Appointment of Federal and State Judges, 61 U. Cin. L. Rev. 955 (1993), in Joseph A. Colquitt, Rethinking Judicial Nominating Commissions: Independence, Accountability, and Public Support, 34 Fordham Urb. L.J. 73 (2007).
• Forum-Selection Clauses and the Privatization of Procedure, 25 Cornell Int'l L.J. 51 (1992), in Henry S. Noyes, If You (Re)build It, They Will Come: Contracts to Remake the Rules of Litigation in Arbitration's Image, 30 Harv. J.L. & Pub. Pol'y 579 (2007).
• Revitalizing Interlocutory Appeals in the Federal Courts, 58 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1165 (1990), in Pauline T. Kim, Lower Court Discretion, 82 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 383 (2007).
• An Economic and Empirical Analysis of Choice of Law, 24 Ga. L. Rev. 49 (1989), in Richard A. Posner, Economic Analysis of Law (Aspen, 7th ed. 2007); Giesela Ruhl, Methods and Approaches in Choice of Law: An Economic Analysis, 24 Berkeley J. Int'l L. 801 (2006); and Henry van Egteren, et al., Environmental Liability and Harmonization in the Presence of Transboundary Effects and Hidden Assets, 22 European J. L. & Econ. 143 (2006).

May 2007

Michael was a contributor to, and signatory of an, Amicus Curiae brief of law professors in the U.S. Supreme Court case of Powerex Corp. v. Reliant Energy Services, Inc., No. 05-85, argued on April 16, 2007. The case involves, among other things, the right to appeal a U.S. District Court decision remanding a case to state court. Other signatories include his UC colleague Adam Steinman and Harvard Law School professor Arthur Miller, the first Stanley M. Chesley Distinguished Visiting Professor at the College of Law in the Spring 2007 semester.

Several of Michael's articles were cited:

• Choice of Law in the American Courts in 1991, 40 Am. J. Comp. L. 951 (1992), in Symeon C. Symeonides, Choice of Law in the American Courts in 2006: Twentieth Annual Survey, 54 Am. J. Comp. L. 697 (2006).
• 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 David F. Herr, Annotated Manual For Complex Litigation, (Thomson-West, 4th ed., 2006).
• An Economic and Empirical Analysis of Choice of Law, 24 Ga. L. Rev. 49 (1989), in Richard A. Posner, Economic Analysis of Law (7th ed. 2007).
• The Future of Parity, 46 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 1457 (2005); Rethinking Exclusive Federal Jurisdiction, 52 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 383 (1991); and Supreme Court Monitoring of State Courts in the Twenty-First Century, 35 Ind. L. Rev. 335 (2002), in John F. Preis, Reassessing the Purposes of Federal Question Jurisdiction, 42 Wake Forest L. Rev. 247 (2007).
• Ideology and En Banc Review, 67 N.C. L. Rev. 29 (1988), in Paul G. Ulrich & Sidley, Austin, Brown & Wood, Federal Appellate Practice Guide 9th Circuit (Lawyers Coop., 2nd ed., 2007 Supp.).
• The Next Word: Congressional Response to Supreme Court Statutory Decisions, 65 Temp. L. Rev. 425 (1992) (with James L. Walker), in Edward A. Fitzgerald, Dysfunctional Downlisting Defeated: Defenders of Wildlife v. Secretary, U.S. Department of the Interior, 34 B.C. Envtl. Aff. L. Rev. 37 (2007).
• Rethinking Feminist Judging, 70 Ind. L.J. 891 (1995) (with Susan E. Wheatley), in Madhavi McCall & Michael A. McCall, How Far Does the Gender Gap Exceed? Decision Making in State Supreme Courts in Fourth Amendment Cases, 1980-2000, 44 Social Science J. 67 (2007).
• 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 Caleb Nelson, Adjudication in the Political Branches, 107 Colum. L. Rev. 559 (2007).
• The Supreme Court and the DIG: An Empirical and Institutional Analysis, 2005 Wis. L. Rev. 1421 (with Rafael Gely), in Stephen L. Wasby & Jolly A. Emrey, Review Section, 28 Just. Sys. J. 117 (2007).

April 2007

Several of Michael's articles were cited:

• 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, Environmental Law Series, 2007 Supp.) and in David F. Herr & Roger S. Haydock, Civil Rules Annotated, (4th (West, 4th ed., Minnesota Practice Series, 2007 Supp.).
• An Economic and Empirical Analysis of Choice of Law, 24 Ga. L. Rev. 49 (1989), in Jack L. Goldsmith & Alan O. Sykes, Lex Loci Delictus and Global Economic Welfare: Spinozzi v. ITT Sheraton Corp., 120 Harv. L. Rev. 1137 (2007).
• Judicial Influence: A Citation Analysis of Federal Courts of Appeals Judges, 27 J. Legal Stud. 271 (1988) (with William M. Landes and Lawrence lessig), in Steven Shavell, On the Proper Magnitude of Punitive Damages: Mathias v. Accor Economy Lodging, Inc., 120 Harv. L. Rev. 1223 (2007).
• Nepotism in the Federal Judiciary, 71 U. Cin. L. Rev. (2002), in David R. Stras & Ryan W. Scott, Are Senior Judges Unconstitutional? 92 Cornell L. Rev. 453 (2007).
• The Next Word: Congressional Response to Supreme Court Statutory Decisions, 65 Tenn. L. Rev. 425 (1992) (with James L. Walker), in Jonathan T. Molot, Ambivalence about Formalism, 93 Va. L. Rev. 1 (2007).

March 2007

Michael published Judges Followed Law in Franklin Case, Cincinnati Enquirer, Feb. 21, 2007. The op-ed discusses Franklin v. Anderson, 267 F. Supp.2d 768 (S.D. Ohio 2003), aff'd, 434 F.3d 412 (6th Cir. 2006), cert. denied, 127 S. Ct. ___(2007)

Several of Michael's articles were cited:

• Due Process and En Banc Decision Making, 48 Ariz. L. Rev. 325 (2006), and Supreme Court Monitoring of the United States Courts of Appeals En Banc, 9 Sup. Ct. Econ. Rev. 171 (2001) (with Tracey George), in Indraneel Sur, How Far Do Voices Carry: Dissents from Denial of Rehearing En Banc, 2006 Wis. L. Rev. 1315.
• The Future of Parity, 46 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 1457 (2005), and Respecting State Courts: The Inevitability of Judicial Federalism (Greenwood, 1999) (with James L. Walker), in Lonny S. Hoffman, Intersections of State and Federal Power: State Judges, Federal Law, and the "Reliance Principle," 81 Tul. L. Rev. 283 (2006).
• Judicial Influence: A Citation Analysis of Federal Courts of Appeals Judges, 27 J. Legal Stud. 271 (1998) (with William M. Landes & Lawrence Lessig), in Christine Hurt, The Bluebook at Eighteen: Reflecting and Ratifying Current Trends in Legal Scholarship, 82 Ind. L.J. 49 (2007).
• The Quiet Revolution in Personal Jurisdiction, 73 Tul. L. Rev. 1 (1998), in Ralf Michaels, Two Paradigms of Jurisdiction, 27 Mich. J. Int'l L. 1003 (2006).
• Status Seeking and the Allure and Limits of Law School Rankings, 81 Ind. L.J. 299 (2006), in Ronen Perry, The Relative Value of American Law Reviews: Refinement and Implementation, 39 Conn. L. Rev. 1 (2006), and Alfred L. Brophy, The Relationship Between Law Review Citations and Law School Rankings, 39 Conn. L. Rev. 43 (2006).

February 2007

Michael attended the AALS Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. His article, Supreme Court Monitoring of State Courts in the Twenty-First Century, 35 Ind. L. Rev. 335 (2002), was reprinted in Inside the Judicial Process: A Contemporary Reader in Law, Politics, and the Courts (Houghton Mifflin, Jennifer Segal Diascro & Gregg Ivers, eds., 2006).

Several of Michael's works were cited:

• Respecting State Courts: The Inevitability of Judicial Federalism (Greenwood Press 1999) (with James L. Walker), in Bruce G. Peabody, Congress, the Court, and the "Service Constitution": Article III Jurisdiction Controls as a Case Study of the Separation of Powers, 2006 Mich. St. L. Rev. 269.
• Forum Selection-Clauses and the Privatization of Procedure, 25 Cornell Int'l L.J. 51 (1992), in Gary B. Born & Peter B. Rutledge, International Civil Litigation in United States Courts (Aspen Publishers, 4th ed., 2007).
• Newsmagazine Coverage of the Supreme Court, 57 Journalism Q. 661 (1980), in Terri L. Towner et al., Media Coverage of the University of Michigan Affirmative Action Decisions, 90 Judicature 120 (2006).

January 2007

Michael published Commemorating Seventy-Five Years of the University of Cincinnati Law Review, 75 U. Cin. L. Rev. 1 (2006) (with Lou Bilionis).

Several of Michael's articles were cited:

• 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 James M. Gaitis, The Federal Arbitration Act: Risks and Incongruities Relating to the Issuance of Interim and Partial Awards in Domestic and International Arbitrations, 16 Am. Rev. Int'l Arb. 1 (2005).
• Forum-Selection Clauses and the Privatization of Procedure, 25 Cornell Int'l L.J. 51 (1992), in Frederick Tung, Before Competition: Origins of the Internal Affairs Doctrine, 32 J. Corp. L. 33 (2006).
• The Future of Parity, 46 Wm & Mary L. Rev. 1457 (2005), in James E. Moliterno, The Administrative Judiciary's Independence Myth, 41 Wake Forest L. Rev. 1191 (2006), and in Kevin M. Clermont, Reverse-Erie, 82 Notre Dame L. Rev. 1 (2006).
• Ideology and En Banc Review, 67 N.C. L. Rev. 29 (1988), in Paul G. Ulrich, Federal Appellate Practice Guide 9th Circuit, 2d (Lawyers Cooperative, 2006 Supp.).
• Judicial Influence: A Citation Analysis of Federal Courts of Appeals Judges, 27 J. Legal Stud. 271 (1998) (with William M. Landes & Lawrence Lessig), in William K. Ford, Judging Expertise in Copyright Law, 14 J. Intell. Prop. L. 1 (2006).
• Revitalizing Interlocutory Appeals in the Federal Courts, 58 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1165 (1990), in Cassandra Burke Robertson, Appellate Review of Discovery Orders in Federal Court: A Suggested Approach for Handling Privilege Claims, 81 Wash. L. Rev. 733 (2006).
• Supreme Court Monitoring of State Courts in the Twenty-First Century, 35 Ind. L. Rev. 335 (2002), in Robert M. Howard, Scott E. Graves, & Julianne Flowers, State Courts, the U.S. Supreme Court, and the Protection of Civil Liberties, 40 Law & Soc'y Rev. 845 (2006).
• Constitutional Litigation in Federal and State Courts: An Empirical Analysis of Judicial Parity, 10 Hastings Const. L.Q. 213 (1983) (with Walker), in Rebecca E. Zeitlow, Enforcing Equality: Congress, the Constitution, and the Protection of Human Rights (New York University Press, 2006), and in John F. Preis, Jurisdiction and Discretion in Hybrid Law Cases, 75 U. Cin. L. Rev. 145 (2006).
• The Three-Judge District Court in Voting Rights Litigation, 30 U. Mich. J. Of Law Reform 79 (1996), in Daniel P. Tokaji, If It's Broke, Fix It: Improving Voting Rights Preclearance, 49 Howard L.J. 785 (2006).
• Forum-Selection Clauses and the Privatization of Procedure, 25 Cornell Int'l L.J. 51 (1992), in Frederick Tung, Before Competition: Origins of the Internal Affairs Doctrine, 32 Iowa J. Corp. L. 33 (2006).
• Supreme Court Monitoring of the U.S. Court of Appeals En Banc, 9 Sup, Ct. Econ. Rev. 171 (2001) (with George), and Ideology and En Banc Review, 67 N.C. L. Rev. 29 (1988), in Wendy L. Martinek, Amici Curiae in the U.S. Courts of Appeals, 34 Am. Pol. Q. 803 (2006).

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