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Marc L. Miller is the Dean & Ralph W. Bilby Professor of Law at the University of Arizona College of Law. Dean Miller taught at Emory University Law School from 1988-2005, where he served as Associate Dean for Faculty and Scholarship (2003-2005). He is a graduate of the University of Chicago Law School and Pomona College, and grew up in Los Angeles. Dean Miller writes and teaches about environmental law and policy and criminal law and policy. He is the author of more than 70 articles and essays on a wide range of environmental, criminal justice, immigration and legal theory topics. He is editor of several casebooks on criminal procedure and sentencing, and co-founded the Federal Sentencing Reporter, the leading journal on sentencing law and policy and a joint project of the Vera Institute of Justice and the University of California Press. He currently serves as a series editor for Summits - books focused on the intersection of environmental science, law, and policy. Dean Miller's scholarship addresses the nature of law. On the criminal side, current work includes a series of articles on the role and regulation of prosecutorial discretion, including a multi-year empirical evaluation of prosecutorial decision-making. At a more general theoretical level, this work deals with policymaking within executive branch agencies, especially in those areas not readily amenable to external judicial or legislative review. His environmental work highlights topics at the intersection of environmental science, policy, and law with special attention to the concept of sustainability and to the relationship between science and environmental policy-making. Much of his environmental work is done in collaboration with natural and social scientists. At Arizona, Dean Miller serves as co-director of the Arizona Law Program in Criminal Law and Policy, and has joint and affiliated appointments with the University of Arizona Institute of the Environment, the Environmental Health Sciences Program of the University of Arizona Zuckerman School of Public Health, and with the Global Change PhD minor, among other programs and institutes. He serves on various university committees, including a workgroup through the McGuire Center for Entrepreneurship at the Eller College of Management to create a new Masters program focusing on capitalizing ventures. He also serves on the steering committee developing a new graduate degree certificate program in American Indian natural resource, and as Associate Director for Interdisciplinary Education for the Arizona Telemedicine Program. Before teaching, Dean Miller served as law clerk to Chief Judge John Godbold of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, as Attorney-Advisor in the Office of Legal Counsel of the U.S. Department of Justice, and as Special Counsel at the Vera Institute of Justice in New York. Dean Miller has been a visiting professor at Stanford Law School and Duke Law School. Dean Miller is a member of the American Law Institute (ALI), and an advisor to various criminal justice and environmental publications and organizations.

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Courses
  • SEP
    Sustainability and Environmental Policy

  • CP
    Criminal Procedure

  • EDN
    Executive Discretion: Norms

  • PA
    Prosecution and Adjudication

  • AAGC
    Arizona Attorney General Clinic

Grants
  • Funding agency logo
    RIDIR: Collaborative Research: A Data Science Platform and Mechanisms for Its Sustainability

    Co-Investigator (COI)

    2018

    $1.5M
    Active
  • Funding agency logo
    Measuring Ecosystem Services and Socio-Economic Benefits Provided by Adaptive Management on Southwestern Rangelands

    Co-Investigator (COI)

    2016

    $439.1K
Books
  • Criminal Procedures: Cases, Statutes & Executive Materials, 5th edition

    2015

News
  • UArizona to Host DC Center for Outreach & Collaboration's Inaugural Event

    2021

  • $1M Gift to University of Arizona Law Launches Fundraising Effort to Transform Advocacy Program

    2021

  • The University of Arizona Global Campus Approved by Accreditor; Board Appointed

    2020

  • Mexican Public Law, Policy Focus of New Certificate

    2019

  • Inaugural UA Micro-Campus Class Graduates

    2019

  • UA Law Launches Natural Resource Management Clinic

    2018

  • UA Partners with Mexican Foreign Ministry to Teach US Law

    2018

  • Nation's First B.A. in Law Now a Model

    2017

  • UA Law School Opens Admissions to GRE Test Takers

    2016

  • UA Launches First Dual Degree Law Program in China

    2016

  • Justice Kagan Discusses Inner Workings of Supreme Court

    2016

  • UA Names Paulo Goes as Dean of Eller College of Management

    2015

  • 2 UA Colleges Collaborate to Form Law and Policy Center

    2015

  • Giffords, Kelly to Speak at Law School Graduation

    2015

  • Alumnus and Ex-Governor Raúl Castro Has Died

    2015

  • UA Announces Creation of Global Mining Law Center

    2015

  • University of Arizona to Offer Nation’s First Bachelor of Arts in Law

    2014

  • UA Alumnus and Longtime Benefactor James E. Rogers Dies

    2014

  • A Tribute: Giving Thanks to Student Veteran Advocates

    2013

  • Marc L. Miller Named Dean of James E. Rogers College of Law

    2013

  • UA Informs Former Law Students of Computer Security Incident

    2013

  • UA Law College Expands Global Partnerships

    2013

  • Marc L. Miller Named Dean of UA College of Law

    2012

  • Law Journal Hosting Symposium on Political Discourse

    2012

  • Arizona to Let Law Students Take Bar Exam Before Graduation

    2012

  • Law School Signs Agreement With University in India

    2012

  • Custodial Team Wins Law School Praise

    2010

  • New Book Examines U.S.-Mexico Border Conservation Challenges

    2010

  • UA Press Celebrates 50 Years

    2009

  • Law Dean Finalists Named

    2009

  • Arizona Law Recognized for Excellence in Three National Surveys

    2007

Publications (124)
Recent
  • Updates from Arizona's Law Schools

    2020

  • Criminal Procedures: The Police: Cases, Statutes, and Executive Materials, Sixth Edition

    2019

  • Sharkfests and Databases: Crowdsourcing Plea Bargains

    2019

  • Criminal Procedures: Prosecution and Adjudication: Cases, Statutes, and Executive Materials, Sixth Edition

    2019

  • Cells vs. Cops vs. Classrooms

    2019

  • Criminal Procedures: Cases, Statutes, and Executive Materials, Sixth Edition

    2019

  • Sentencing Law and Policy: Cases, Statutes, and Guidelines (Aspen Casebook) 4th Edition

    2018

  • Working Landscapes: The Future of Land Use Policy

    2015

  • Adding ecosystem services to environmental impact analyses: More sequins on a “bloated Elvis” or rockin' idea?

    2015

  • Adding Ecosystem Services to Environmental Impact Assessments: More sequins on a Bloated Elvis or Rockin Idea?

    2015

  • There Ought to be a Law! The Peculiar Absence of Broad Federal Harmful Nonindigenous Species Legislation

    2015

  • Adding Ecosystem Services to Environmental Impact Analyses: More Sequins on a “ Bloated Elvis ” or Rockin' Idea?

    2015

  • The Many Faces of Prosecution

    2014

  • Recent Court Cases Have Added Clarity to the Trader vs. Investor Designation for Market Participants

    2014

  • Key landscape ecology metrics for assessing climate change adaptation options: rate of change and patchiness of impacts

    2013

  • The 3L February Bar Exam: An Experiment Under Way in Arizona,

    2013

  • Reporting for Duty: The Prosecutorial Accountability Puzzle and An Experimental Transparency Alternative

    2012

  • Arizona Senate Bill 1070: Politics Through Immigration Law

    2012

  • Prosecution in Arizona: Practical Problems, Prosecutorial Accountability, and Local Solutions

    2012

  • Biological Invasions: Federal and States Law

    2011

  • The Criminal Justice System in the USA.

    2011

  • Global Climate Change as a Local Phenomenon

    2011

  • The Unconstitutionality of State Regulation of Immigration Through Criminal Law

    2011

  • Here Comes the Sun: Solar Power Parity with Fossil Fuels

    2011

  • Climate Change and the Practice of Law

    2010

  • Letter to the Editor

    2010

  • How to Take Climate Change Into Account: A Guidance Document for Judges Adjudicating Water Disputes

    2010

  • The Worldwide Accountability Deficit for Prosecutors

    2010

  • Can the Deepwater Horizon Trust Take Account of Ecosystem Services and Fund Restoration of the Gulf

    2010

  • State Governance: Leadership on Climate Change

    2009

  • Shaping Modern Sentencing: Three Giants

    2009

  • Subjective and Objective Discretion of Prosecutors

    2009

  • The Black Box

    2008

  • The Black Box: The Reasons Behind Procecutors' Declination Choices

    2008

  • Dead Wrong

    2008

  • Leaky Floors: State Law Below Federal Constitutional Limits

    2008

  • Sentencing Lessons

    2005

  • The Paradox of U.S. Alien Species Law

    2005

  • The Wisdom We have Lost: Sentencing Information and Its Uses

    2005

  • Secret Police and the Mysterious Case of the Missing Tort Claims

    2004

  • Norval Morris

    2004

  • The Paradox of United States Alien Species Law

    2004

  • Biological and Cultural Camouflage: The Challenges of Seeing the Harmful Invasive Species Problem and Doing Something About It

    2004

  • Sentencing Equality Pathology

    2004

  • Domination and Dissatisfaction: Prosecutors as Sentencers

    2004

  • NIS, WTO, SPS, WIR - Does the WTO Substantially Limit the Ability of Countries to Regulate Harmful Nonindigenous Species

    2003

  • Honesty and Opacity in Charge Bargains

    2003

  • Public Lands for the Public's Health

    2003

  • Immigration Law: Assessing New Immigration Enforcement Strategies and the Criminalization of Migration

    2002

  • Editor's Notes

    2002

  • The Screening/Bargaining Tradeoff

    2002

  • Immigration Law: Assessing New Immigration Enforcement Strategies and the Criminalization of Migration - Introduction

    2002

  • Sentencing "Reform Reform" Through Sentencing Information Systems

    2002

  • Pardon Us: Systematic Presidential Pardons Pardon Power and Sentencing Policy: A: Guidance for Pardons

    2001

  • Cumberland Island: Constructing and Deconstructing Wilderness and History

    2001

  • Pardon Us: Systematic Presidential Pardons

    2000

  • Interim Report, Policy Regulation Working Group of the National Invasive Species Advisory Council

    2000

  • Wise Masters

    1999

  • Empty Heart, Vibrant Corpus

    1999

  • Teaching Holistic Sentencing

    1998

  • Rehabilitating the Federal Sentencing Guidelines

    1995

  • The Sentencing Guidelines as a Criminal Code

    1994

  • Splits

    1994

  • The Uncontrolled Growth of the Federal Prison Population

    1994

  • The Disproportionate Imprisonment of Low-Level Drug Offenders

    1994

  • Guiding the Discretion of U.S. Attorneys: Department of Justice Policies, 1980-1994

    1994

  • Charging and Plea Policies

    1994

  • Getting a Grip on Three Strikes

    1994

  • The Unfulfilled Potential for Independent Federal Sentencing Research

    1993

  • Contrasting Approaches toward Guidelines and Departures in Six Circuits Contrasts among Circuits

    1993

  • Contrasting Approaches toward Guidelines and Departures in Six Circuits

    1993

  • Unfulfilled Potential for Independent Federal Sentencing Research, The Independent Research on Federal Sentencing

    1993

  • Biological Control: A Little Knowledge Is a Dangerous Thing

    1993

  • The Role of Appellate Courts

    1993

  • Local Sentence Variations

    1993

  • Suggestions for the President and the 103rd Congress on the Guidline Sentencing System (continued)

    1993

  • The Chasm between the Judiciary and Congress over Mandatory Minimum Sentences

    1993

  • Chasm between the Judiciary and Congress over Mandatory Minimum Sentences,

    1993

  • Departures Visible and Invisible: Perpetuating Variation in Federal Sentences Developments in the Use of Departures

    1992

  • Amending the Guidelines

    1992

  • True Grid: Revealing Sentencing Policy

    1992

  • Amending the Guidelines The Amendment Process and Guidelines Reform

    1992

  • Suggestions for the President and the 103rd Congress on the Guideline Sentencing System

    1992

  • Purposes at Sentencing

    1992

  • Departures Visible and Invisible: Perpetuating Variation in Federal Sentences

    1992

  • Editor's Observations - Plea Bargained Sentences, Disparity and Guideline Justice

    1991

  • Editors' Observations - Honoring Judicial Discretion under the Sentencing Reform Act

    1991

  • Editors' Observations - Taking Purposes Seriously: The Neglected Requirement of Guideline Sentencing

    1991

  • Plea Bargained Sentences, Disparity and Guideline Justice Plea Bargaining under the Guidelines

    1991

  • Honoring Judicial Discretion under the Sentencing Reform Act Reexamining the Statute

    1991

  • Taking Purposes Seriously: The Neglected Requirement of Guideline Sentencing Purposes at Sentencing

    1991

  • Developing Intermediate Sanctions Intermediate Sanctions

    1991

  • Perspectives on Disparity in Guideline Research Perspectives on Disparity in Guideline Research

    1991

  • Developing Intermediate Sanctions

    1991

  • Perspectives on Disparity in Guideline Research

    1991

  • Editors' Observations - Taking Purposes Seriously: The Neglected Requirement of Guideline Sentencing (continued)

    1991

  • Pretrial Detention and Punishment

    1990

  • The Emerging Proportionality Law for Measuring Departures

    1990

  • Georgia's Historical Law Schools - Part III: Emory: The Creation of a National Law School

    1990

  • The Commission Under Fire: Constructive Advice or Destructive Attack?

    1990

  • Emerging Proportionality Law for Measuring Departures, The

    1990

  • Offender Characteristics and Victim Vulnerability: The Differences between Policy Statements and Guidelines

    1990

  • Editors' Note

    1989

  • Editor's Observations - Handcuffing the Sentencing Judge: Are Offender Characteristics Becoming Irrelevant - Are Congressionally Mandated Sentences Displacing Judicial Discretion

    1989

  • Guidelines are not enough: The need for written sentencing opinions

    1989

  • Handcuffing the Sentencing Judge: Are offender characteristics becoming irrelevant? Are Congressionally mandated sentences displacing judicial discretion

    1989

  • The Relevant Conduct Controversy

    1989

  • Editors' Notes (continued)

    1988

  • Editors' Notes

    1988

  • Invitation for Commentary

    1988

  • Predictions of Dangerousness: An Argument for Limited Use

    1988

  • In Your Court: State Judicial Federalism in Capital Cases

    1986

  • Predictions of Dangerousness: Ethical Concerns and Proposed Limits

    1986

  • Predictions of Dangerousness

    1985

  • Diversity Jurisdiction over Alien Corporations

    1983

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