Marc L. Miller

Dean & Ralph W. Bilby Professor of Law

Marc L. Miller is the Dean & Ralph W. Bilby Professor of Law at the University of Arizona College of Law. Dean Miller taught at Emory University Law School from 1988-2005, where he served as Associate Dean for Faculty and Scholarship (2003-2005). He is a graduate of the University of Chicago Law School and Pomona College, and grew up in Los Angeles.

Dean 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.

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

Before teaching, Dean 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. Dean Miller has been a visiting professor at Stanford Law School and Duke Law School. Dean 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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Curriculum Vitae

SSRN Published Papers

Representative Publications

Education

  • J.D. University of Chicago Law School
    1984
    Managing & Book Review Editor, Chicago Law Review
  • B.A. Politics, Philosophy & Economics Pomona College
    1981

Work Experience

  • Dean & Ralph W. Bilby Professor of Law
    James E. Rogers College of Law
    2013 - present
  • Interim Dean & Ralph W. Bilby Professor of Law
    James E. Rogers College of Law
    2012 - 2013
  • Vice Dean
    James E. Rogers College of Law
    2011 - 2012
  • Ralph W. Bilby Professor of Law
    James E. Rogers College of Law
    2006 - present
  • Ralph W. Bilby Visiting Professor of Law
    James E. Rogers College of Law
    2005 - 2006
  • Associate Dean for Faculty and Scholarship
    Emory University School of Law
    2003 - 2005
  • Visiting Associate Professor
    Duke Law School
    Spring 1998
  • Visiting Scholar
    Stanford Law School
    1995 - 1996
  • Special Counsel
    Vera Institute of Justice, New York
    1987 - 1988
  • Professor of Law
    Emory University School of Law
    1988 - 2005
  • Attorney-Advisor
    Office of Legal Counsel, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.
    1985 - 1987
  • Law Clerk
    Chief Judge John C. Godbold, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, Montgomery, Ala.
    1984 - 1985

Organizations

  • American Law Institute
    Member
    Elected May 2002
  • Galapagos Coalition
    Co-founder, with Dr. Gregory Aplet & Dr Matthew James (see www.galapagoscoalitiong.org)
    1995 - present
  • The Edge book series (volumes on Environmental Science, Law & Policy), a joint project of the Institute for the Environment & Society, the James E. Rogers College of Law, the Biosphere 2 Institute, and the University of Arizona Press
    Series Editor
    2007 - present
  • University of Arizona Institute for the Environment and Society (IES)
    Associated Faculty
    2007 - present
  • Max Planck Institute, Concepts for a European Criminal Justice System Project
    Member
    2006 - 2008
  • World Association of International Studies (California Institute of International Studies)
    Fellow
    Elected 1996

Public & Institutional Service

  • Board member, Turner Environmental Law Clinic
    1998 - 2006 Advisor, Cumberland Island project
  • Division Chair (Sentencing), American Society of Criminology, Atlanta, Georgia
    Nov. 7 - 10, 2001
  • Lead counsel, United States v. Charlie Liteky (11th Cir.)
    2000 - 2001
  • Co-Chair (non-federal), Policy & Regulation Working Group, National Invasive Species Council
    2000
  • Clinton-Gore Transition Team
    Justice & Civil Rights Cluster, Sentencing and Punishment Policy Group, Principal Drafter (December 1992).
  • Federal Sentencing Reporter
    Founding Editor, 1988 - 1995; Senior Advisor/Editor Emeritus, 1996 - present
  • Advisory Board, Ohio State Journal Of Criminal Law
Leadership
Faculty
Admin/Staff
Criminal Law & Justice (including Juvenile Justice)
Environmental Law
Legal Design & Access to Justice
Legal Education
Water & Natural Resources Law