Faculty Scholarship Repository
The Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law Faculty Scholarship Repository is a service of the Ross-Blakley Law Library that provides information, and where available access to, the scholarly work of the College of Law’s current full-time, emeritus, and retired faculty. Questions about the repository can be submitted to Ask a Law Librarian.
Publications For Michael Berch
BOOKS
- Introduction to Legal Method and Process: Cases and Materials (5th ed., West Academic 2010) (co-author with Jessica J. Berch et al.)
- Introduction to Legal Method and Process: Cases and Materials (4th ed., Thomson/West 2006) (co-author with Rebecca Berch et al.)
- Introduction to Legal Method and Process (3rd ed., West Group 2002) (co-author with Ralph Spritzer)
- Introduction to Legal Method and Process Teacher’s Manual (3d ed., West Group 2002) (co-author with Ralph Spritzer)
- Introduction to Legal Method and Process: Cases and Materials (3d ed., West Group 2002) (co-author with Rebecca Berch et al.)
- Introduction to Legal Method and Process: Cases and Materials (2nd ed., West Publishing Company 1992) (co-author with Rebecca Berch et al.)
- Handling Complex Litigation in Arizona (CES Inc 1986)
- Introduction to Legal Method and Process : Cases and Materials (West Publishing Company 1985) (co-author with Rebecca Berch)
- Teacher's Manual for Berch and Berch's Introduction to Legal Method and Process : Cases and Materials (West Publishing Company 1985) (co-author with Rebecca Berch)
- Res Judicata in Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States (David Spinoza Tanenhaus, ed., Macmillan Reference USA 2008)
- Removal Act of 1789 in Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States (David Spinoza Tanenhaus, ed., Macmillan Reference USA 2008)
- Worst of the Worst: Which, If Any Circle of Hell: Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment 405 in Screening Justice--The Cinema of Law: Significant Films of Law, Order, and Social Justice (Rennard Strickland, et al. eds., W.S. Hein 2005)
- The Bankruptcy Appellate Panel and Its Implications for Adoption of Specialist Panels in the Courts of Appeals in Restructuring Justice (Arthur Hellman ed., Cornell University Press 1990)
- The Courts in Action in The Adequacy of Arizona's Court System (Phoenix, Arizona Academy 1973)
- May I Have a Word with You: Oops, Have I Already Violated the No-Contact Rule?, 6 Phoenix L. Rev. 433 (2013) (co-author with Jessica J. Berch)
- Introduction: The Impact of Remand Orders from Higher to Lower Courts on American Jurisprudence, 44 Ariz. St. L. J. 1017 (2012)
- Reflections on the Role of State Courts in the Vindication of State Constitutional Rights: A Plea for State Appellate Courts to Consider Unraised Issues of State Constitutional Law in Criminal Cases, 59 Kan. L. Rev. 833 (2011)
- Sentencing, Prosecutorial Discretion, and the Criminal Injustice System, Defender (2008)
- A Defense Plea for Leniency at the Mitigation Hearing – State v. Raskolnikov, 38 Ariz. St. L. J. 469 (2006)
- Law Professors' Professionalism Creed, 16 Prof. Lawyer 26 (2005)
- We’ve Only Just Begun: The Impact of Remand & Orders from Higher to Lower Courts on American Jurisprudence, 36 Ariz. St. L. J. 493 (2004)
- Analysis of Arizona’s Depublication Rule and Practice, 32 Ariz. St. L. J. 175 (2000)
- An Essay Regarding Gasperini v. Center for Humanities, Inc. and the Demise of the Uniform Application of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, 69 Miss. L .J. 715 (1999) (co-author with Rebecca Berch)
- Proposals to Amend the Civil Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1983, 29 McGeorge L. Rev. 825 (1998) (co-author with Rebecca Berch)
- The Power of the Judiciary to Dismiss Criminal Charges After Several Hung Juries: a Proposed Rule to Control Judicial Discretion, 30 Loy. L.A. L . Rev. 535 (1997) (co-author with Rebecca Berch)
- Insurer, Insurer-retained Counsel, Insured: a Reexamination of Conflict of Interest in the Tripartite Relationship, 54 J. Air L. & Com 689 (1988) (co-author with Rebecca Berch)
- Will the Real Counsel for the Insured Please Rise?, 19 Ariz. St. L. J. 27 (1987) (co-author with Rebecca Berch)
- An Essay on the Role of the Supreme Court in the Adjudication of Constitutional Rights, 1984 Ariz. St. L. J. 283 (1984)
- A Proposal to Permit Collateral Estoppel of Nonparties Seeking Affirmative Relief, 1979 Ariz. St. L. J. 511 (1979)
- The Erection of a Barrier Against Assertion of Ancillary Claims: an Examination of Owen Equipment and Erection Company v. Koger, 1979 Ariz. St. L. J. 253 (1979)
- Unchain the Courts – An Essay on the Role of the Federal Courts in the Vindication of Social Rights, 1976 Ariz St. L.J. 437 (1976)
- Money Damages for Fourth Amendment Violations by Federal Officials: an Explanation of Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal, 1971 Law & Soc. Order 43 (1971)
- The Riddle of Harmless Error, 1970 Law & Soc.Order 509 (1970)
- Vesting and Portability of Pension Plans, 17 Ariz. Bus. Bulletin 3 (1970) (co-author with Lester I. Tenney)