Professor Miller is the Allison and Dorothy Rouse Chair in Law at the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute and a research member of the European Corporate Governance Institute, as well as an Adjunct Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and an Affiliated Scholar at the James Wilson Institute on Natural Rights and the American Founding. At the Classical Liberal Institute, he co-directs the Program on Organizations, Business and Markets.
Professor Miller’s research concerns corporate and securities law, the economic analysis of law, and the philosophy of law. His writings have been cited in commercial and corporate cases by federal and state courts in the United States, as well as courts in the United Kingdom and Canada. The Delaware courts have cited his works more than40 times. He has written on material adverse effect clauses, prohibitions by employers on insider trading by their employees, the valuation of businesses in Delaware appraisal proceedings, pricing anomalies in the market for corporate control, the history and development of Delaware corporate law, the fiduciary duties of corporate directors, Rule 10b-5 securities fraud in connection with business combination transactions, risk transfers in securitization transactions, corporate social responsibility and the ESG movement, and shareholder governance versus stakeholder governance. His articles have appeared in Business Lawyer, the Journal of Corporation Law, the European Journal of Law & Economics, the William & Mary Law Review, the Southern California Law Review, the Notre Dame Law Review, the Supreme Court Economic Review, the Cardozo Law Review, the Review of Banking and Financial Law, the Journal of Morality and Markets, and the Journal of Catholic Social Thought, among others. Professor Miller is also the co-author of a casebook on mergers and acquisitions published by Foundation Press. His articles and working papers are available on his SSRN page.
Before joining the faculty at George Mason University, Professor Miller was the F. Arnold Daum Chair in Corporate Finance and Law at the University of Iowa College of Law, where he also served as Associate Dean for Faculty Development. Before that, he was a Professor of Law at the Villanova University School of Law and the Associate Director of the Matthew J. Ryan Center for the Study of Free Institutions and the Public Good at Villanova University. He has been a Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, a Visiting Assistant Professor of Law at the Cardozo Law School, and an Olin Fellow in Law and Economics at the Columbia Law School. He earned his B.A., M.A., and M.Phil. degrees in philosophy from Columbia and his J.D. from Yale.
Professor Miller writes for popular audiences at Public Discourse, First Things and Anchoring Truths. He has also published a widely-used English translation of De Ente et Essentia, the most important metaphysical work of Thomas Aquinas.