Marc Miller

Marc L. Miller is Dean Emeritus of the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law, where he served as dean from 2012 to January 2025. He previously taught for 17 years at Emory University School of Law and has been a visiting professor at Stanford Law School and Duke Law School.

Professor Miller teaches and writes in the areas of environmental law and policy and criminal law and policy. He has authored more than 70 articles and essays addressing environmental law, criminal justice, immigration, and legal theory. He is also an editor of several casebooks on criminal procedure and sentencing and co-founded the Federal Sentencing Reporter, a leading journal on sentencing law and policy published as a joint project of the Vera Institute of Justice and the University of California Press.

His criminal law scholarship examines prosecutorial discretion, policymaking within executive branch agencies, and areas of government decision-making that are not readily subject to judicial or legislative review. His environmental scholarship focuses on the intersection of science, policy, and law, with particular attention to sustainability and the role of science in environmental policymaking. Much of this work is conducted in collaboration with natural and social scientists.

Before entering academia, Professor Miller served as a law clerk to Chief Judge John Godbold of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, as an Attorney-Advisor in the Office of Legal Counsel at the U.S. Department of Justice, and as Special Counsel at the Vera Institute of Justice in New York.

Professor Miller is a member of the American Law Institute and has served as an advisor to criminal justice and environmental publications and organizations. He earned his J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School and his B.A. from Pomona College.