Marc L. Miller

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. He currently serves as a series editor for Summits - books focused on the intersection of environmental science, law, and policy.

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 policy-making. Much of his environmental work is done in collaboration with natural and social scientists.

At Arizona, Dean Miller serves as co-director of the Arizona Law Program in Criminal Law and Policy, and has joint and affiliated appointments with the University of Arizona Institute of the Environment, the Environmental Health Sciences Program of the University of Arizona Zuckerman School of Public Health, and with the Global Change PhD minor, among other programs and institutes. He serves on various university committees, including a workgroup through the McGuire Center for Entrepreneurship at the Eller College of Management to create a new Masters program focusing on capitalizing ventures. He also serves on the steering committee developing a new graduate degree certificate program in American Indian natural resource, and as Associate Director for Interdisciplinary Education for the Arizona Telemedicine Program.

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.

Curriculum Vitae

SSRN Published Papers

• Criminal Procedures:  Cases, Statutes & Executive Materials (6th ed. 2019) (co-author, with Ronald F. Wright, Jenia I. Turner, & Kay Levine).
• Sentencing Law and Policy:  Cases, Statutes, and Guidelines (4th ed. 2018) (co-author, with Nora Demleitner, Douglas Berman, & Ronald F. Wright).
• The Worldwide Accountability Deficit of Prosecutors, 67 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 1587 (2010) (co-author, with Ronald F. Wright). http://law.wlu.edu/deptimages/Law%20Review/67-4WrightMiller.pdf
• Climate Change and the Practice of Law, 47 Ariz. Atty. 30 (Oct. 2010) (co-author, with Jonathan T. Overpeck). http://www.myazbar.org/AZAttorney/PDF_Articles/1010ClimChangeAuthor.pdf
• Sentencing Law and Policy:  Cases, Statutes, and Guidelines (2d ed. 2007) (co-author, with Nora V. Demleitner, Douglas A. Berman, & Ronald F. Wright).
• 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).
• Dead Wrong, 2008 Utah L. Rev. 89 (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).
• Complete List of 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