Visiting Professor of Law
Michael Berch is a professor at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University (ASU) and an honors disciplinary faculty member of Barrett, the honors college at ASU. After graduating from law school at Columbia University, Berch joined the attorney general's honors program with the U.S. Department of Justice and worked on a variety of high profile criminal cases. He also spent two years as an assistant United States attorney for the southern district of New York.
While in private practice in New York, he taught part-time at New York University School of Law. A popular teacher, he is a sought-after and highly acclaimed visiting law school professor. He has taught a wide variety of courses including federal courts, civil procedure and professional responsibility at numerous institutions. Berch received the ASU Alumni Association Distinguished Teacher Award in 1990, the Maricopa County Bar Association Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award for 1992-93 and was named the ASU Law Alumni Distinguished Professor of 2001.
Berch is the founder and director of the widely heralded Legal Process Institute at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law and is a coauthor of the Introduction to Legal Method and Process, currently in its fourth edition (2006). He has coached many of ASU's winning moot court teams and has also written several law review articles.
Berch recently coauthored Introduction to Legal Method and Process: Cases and Materials, (4th ed., West Group 2006) with Rebecca White Berch and Ralph Spitzer. Recent articles include “A Defense Plea for Leniency at the Mitigation Hearing – State v. Raskolnikov,” 38 Arizona State Law Journal (Summer 2006); "We've Only Just Begun: The Impact of Remand Orders from Higher to Lower Courts on American Jurisprudence," 36 Arizona State Law Journal (2004); and "Law Professor's Professionalism Creed", 16 The Professional Lawyer (2005). |
