Eric J. Miller teaches and writes in the areas of criminal law, criminal procedure, jurisprudence, and critical race theory. Professor Miller’s scholarship focuses the intersection of criminal justice with sociology and criminology; the study of problem-solving courts; and legal theory.

Professor Miller received an LL.B. from the University of Edinburgh, and an LL.M. from Harvard Law School, where he was also a Charles Hamilton Houston Fellow. He clerked for the Hon. Myron H. Thompson in the Middle District of Alabama and the Hon. Stephen Reinhardt of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

His publications include:

The Warren Court’s Regulatory Revolution in Criminal Procedure, 43 CONN. L. REV. 1 (2010)

Putting the Practice into Theory, 7 OHIO ST. J. CRIM. L. 31 (2009)

Drugs, Courts, and the New Penology, 20 STANFORD L. & POLICY REV. 417 (2009)

Judicial Preferences, 44 HOUSTON L. REV. 1275 (2008)

The Therapeutic Effects of Managerial Reentry Courts, 20 F. SENTENCING RPTR. 127 (2007)

Role-Based Policing: Restraining Police Conduct “Outside the Legitimate Investigative Sphere,” 94 CAL. L. REV. 617 (2006)

Embracing Addiction: Drug Courts and the False Promise of Judicial Interventionism, 65 OHIO STATE L.J. 1479 (2004)

“Sympathetic Exchange:” Adam Smith and Punishment, 9 Ratio Juris 182 (1996)