Marc L. Miller

Marc Miller served as Dean at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law between 2012 and January 2025. He is a graduate of the University of Chicago Law School (JD) and Pomona College (BA).

Miller writes and teaches about environmental law and policy and criminal law and policy. He is the author of more than 70 articles and essays on a wide range of environmental, criminal justice, immigration, and legal theory topics. He is editor of several casebooks on criminal procedure and sentencing and co-founded the Federal Sentencing Reporter, the leading journal on sentencing law and policy and a joint project of the Vera Institute of Justice and the University of California Press.

Miller's scholarship addresses the nature of law. On the criminal side, current work includes a series of articles on the role and regulation of prosecutorial discretion, including a multi-year empirical evaluation of prosecutorial decision-making. At a more general theoretical level, this work deals with policymaking within executive branch agencies, especially in those areas not readily amenable to external judicial or legislative review. His environmental work highlights topics at the intersection of environmental science, policy, and law with special attention to the concept of sustainability and to the relationship between science and environmental policymaking. Much of his environmental work is done in collaboration with natural and social scientists.

At Arizona, Miller is an active partner with other Colleges and programs and serves on various university committees.

Before coming to the University of Arizona, Miller taught for seventeen years at Emory University School of Law. Before teaching, Miller served as law clerk to Chief Judge John Godbold of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, as Attorney-Advisor in the Office of Legal Counsel of the U.S. Department of Justice, and as Special Counsel at the Vera Institute of Justice in New York. He has been a visiting professor at Stanford Law School and Duke Law School. Miller is a member of the American Law Institute (ALI), and an advisor to various criminal justice and environmental publications and organizations. 

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Representative Publications

• Criminal Procedures: Cases, Statutes & Executive Materials (7th ed. 2023) (co-author, with Ronald F. Wright, Jenia I. Turner, & Kay Levine).
• Criminal Procedures - The Police: Cases, Statutes & Executive Materials (7th ed. 2023).
• Criminal Procedures - Prosecution & Adjudication: Cases, Statutes & Executive Materials (7th ed. 2023).   
• Sentencing Law and Policy: Cases, Statutes, and Guidelines (5th ed. 2022) (co-author, with Nora Demleitner, Douglas Berman, & Ronald F. Wright).
• The Screening/Bargaining Tradeoff, 55 Stan. L. Rev. 29 (2002) (co-author, with Ronald Wright).
• Toward NEPA Performance: A Framework for Assessing EIA's, 97 Environmental Assessment Review. 106879 (2022) (co-author, with Kirk Emerson, Elizabeth Baldwin, Tyler Scott, Justin Pidot, Aaron Lien, Faiz Currim, Steven Bethard, Sudha Ram & Laura Lopez-Hoffman).
• Sharkfest and Databases: Crowdsourcing Plea Bargins, 6 Texas A&M L. Rev. 601 (2019) (co-author, with Kay Levine, Ronald Wright & Nancy King).
• The Worldwide Accountability Deficit of Prosecutors, 67 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 1587 (2010) (co-author, with Ronald F. Wright). 
• Climate Change and the Practice of Law, 47 Ariz. Atty. 30 (Oct. 2010) (co-author, with Jonathan T. Overpeck). 
• Harmful Invasive Species: Legal Responses (2004) (co-editor, with Robert N. Fabian).
• State Governance: Leadership on Climate Change, in Agenda for a Sustainable America 441 (John C. Dernbach ed., 2009) (co-author, with Kirsten H. Engel).
• The Black Box, 94 Iowa L. Rev. 125 (2008) (co-author, with Ronald F. Wright).
• Leaky Floors: State Law Below Federal Constitutional Limits, 50 Ariz. L. Rev. 227 (2008) (co-author, with Ronald F. Wright).
• A Map of Sentencing and A Compass for Judges: Sentencing Information Systems, Transparency, and the Next Generation of Reform, 105 Colum. L. Rev. 1351 (2005).
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