Professor Darrell Miller began his teaching career with the College of Law after five years of litigating complex and appellate matters with a large firm in Columbus, Ohio. He is a cum laude graduate of the Harvard Law School where he served as Notes Editor for the Harvard Law Review. In addition to his J.D., Professor Miller holds degrees from Oxford University, where he studied as a British Marshall Scholar, and from Anderson University, where he was honored with the Distinguished Young Alumni Award in 2004. Following law school, Professor Miller clerked for the Honorable R. Guy Cole, Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
Professor Miller's scholarship focuses on issues of civil rights, constitutional law, and civil procedure. Among his works areText, History, and Tradition: What the Seventh Amendment Can Teach Us About the Second, 122 Yale L. J. 852 (2013); The Thirteenth Amendment and the Regulation of Custom, 112 Colum. L. Rev. 1811 (2012); Guns as Smut: Defending the Home-Bound Second Amendment, 109 Colum. L. Rev. 1278 (2009), which was cited by Justice John Paul Stevens in dissent in McDonald v. City of Chicago; Guns Inc.: Citizens United, McDonald, and the Future of Corporate Constitutional Rights, 86 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 887 (2011); White Cartels, the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the History of Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co., 77 Fordham L. Rev. 999 (2008).