Arthur R. Miller has taught at Harvard Law School since 1971, where he was named the Bruce Bromley Professor of Law. He has recently been appointed University Professor at New York University School of Law. Professor Miller earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Rochester and his law degree from Harvard Law School. 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, and copyright and unfair competition. He has worked for decades on the multivolume Wright & Miller treatise, Federal Practice & Procedure, of which he is now senior co-author. He has also worked for many years 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.

In recent years Professor Miller has taught courses on Civil Procedure, Copyright, and Complex Litigation. 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 and in the U.S. Supreme Court. 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 (by appointment of President Ford), reporter for and member of the Advisory Committee on Civil Rules of the Judicial Conference of the United States (by appointment of Chief Justices Burger and Rehnquist), and Reporter for the American Law Institute’s Project on Complex Litigation.

Professor Miller was host of the weekly television show Miller’s Court for eight years; he also wrote a book of the same name. He commented regularly on legal matters for Boston’s WCVB-TV for many years. Professor Miller has moderated numerous Socratic dialogues for several acclaimed PBS series, including The Constitution: That Delicate Balance, Managing Our Miracles: Health Care in America, and The Presidency; he won an Emmy award for The Sovereign Self. His broadcast Before I Die attracted considerable notice. Professor Miller has also conducted programs in the British Hypotheticals series for many years. For over twenty years he was the legal editor of ABC’s Good Morning America, and for several years he hosted a weekly program on the Courtroom Television Network and appeared frequently on other Court TV programs. Between 1987 and 1989 he moderated the nationally syndicated issues program Headlines on Trial. He has also written numerous articles on law for various legal and nonlegal periodicals.