Arthur R. Miller
Civil Litigation, Copyright, and Privacy
School of Law & SCPS
arthur.r.miller@nyu.edu
Arthur R. Miller - one of the nation's most distinguished legal scholars in the areas of civil litigation, copyright, and privacy, and a renowned commentator on the law and society - has been appointed as a University Professor to the faculty of the NYU School of Law and the NYU School of Continuing and Professional Studies. He will teach a course on complex litigation at the School of Law in spring 2008. Professor Miller was previously the Bruce Bromley Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where he has taught since 1971. Before joining the Harvard faculty, he practiced law in New York City and taught at the University of Minnesota and the University of Michigan. Among lawyers he is nationally known for his work on court procedure, a subject on which he has authored or co-authored more than forty books. The general public, however, knows him for his work in the field of the right of privacy, a subject on which he has written, testified, debated, and helped formulate legislation. His book, The Assault on Privacy: Computers, Data Banks, and Dossiers (1971), has been extremely influential.
Professor Miller also carries on an active law practice, particularly in the federal appellate courts. He has argued in all of the U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeal. He has worked in the public interest in the fields of privacy, computers, copyright, and the courts. Among the responsible positions he has held are those of Commissioner on the United States Commission on New Technological Uses of Copyrighted Works, reporter for and member of the Advisory Committee on Civil Rules of the Judicial Conference of the United States, and Reporter for the American Law Institute’s Project on Complex Litigation. Professor Miller is a critically acclaimed legal writer and commentator, having contributed to numerous media outlets, including ABC, PBS, Court TV, among others. For many years Professor Miller was the legal editor of ABC’s Good Morning America and hosted a program on the Courtroom Television Network. Professor Miller received his B.A. from the University of Rochester, where he was elected Phi Beta Kappa, in 1955, and his law degree from the Harvard Law School, magna cum laude, in 1958, where he was the articles editor of the Harvard Law Review.