Professor Darrell Miller began his teaching career with the College of Law following five years in the litigation department of Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease where he practiced in the areas of complex and appellate litigation. He received his JD cum laude from Harvard Law School and served as a Notes Editor for the Harvard Law Review. Professor Miller holds a BA from Anderson University as well as a BA and MA from Oxford University, having been chosen as a British Marshall Scholar. 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 newest article, Guns as Smut: Defending the Home-Bound Second Amendment is forthcoming in the Columbia Law Review. A short essay about Guns as Smut is here. He is also the author of two other works, White Cartels, the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the History of Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co., 77 Fordham L. Rev. 999 (2008) and State DOMAs, Neutral Principles and the Mobius of State Action, 81 Temple L. Rev. 967 (2008).
Articles, Essays & Book Reviews
Darrell published State Domas, Neutral Principles. and the Mobius of State Action, 81 Temple L. Rev. 967 (2009). He presented Iqbal and Empathy at the Enforcing Constitutional Rights in the 21st Century Symposium at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
Darrell was reappointed as Assistant Professor of Law for a term of three years.
Darrell presented Racial Retrenchment and the Thirteenth Amendment and The Thirteenth Amendment as Redemption as part of the 13th Annual UC Faculty Summer Scholarship Series.
Darrell participated in a meeting called by the Ohio State Bar Association on the topic of Judicial Selection/Public Financing for Ohio judges.
Darrell received the 2009 Goldman Award for Excellence in Law Teaching. His article, Guns as Smut: A First Amendment Framework for the Second Amendment, was accepted for publication in the Columbia Law Review. Darrell’s book chapter, A Thirteenth Amendment Agenda for the Twenty-First Century: Of Promises, Power and Precautions, was accepted for publication in Promises of Liberty: Thirteenth Amendment Abolitionism and its Contemporary Vitality (Alexander Tsesis ed.) (Columbia University Press 2009).
Darrell presented, White Cartels, the Civil Rights Act of 1866, and the History of Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co., 77 Fordham L. Rev. 999 (2008), at the University of Chicago’s conference, Slavery, Abolition, and Human Rights: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Thirteenth Amendment.
Darrell hosted a faculty-student brownbag lunch on his article, Guns as Smut: Defending the Home-Bound Second Amendment, 109 Colum. L. Rev. ___ (2009).
Darrell published White Cartels, the Civil Rights Act of 1866, and the History of Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co., 77 Fordham L. Rev. 999 (2008). He presented Guns as Smut: A First Amendment Framework for the Second Amendment at the Ohio Junior Scholars Workshop at Ohio State.
Darrell presented White Cartels, the Civil Rights Act of 1866, and the History of Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co., 77 Fordham L. Rev. 999 (2008), at Chicago-Kent as part of the UC-Chicago-Kent Scholar Exchange Program.
Darrell's article, State DOMAs, Neutral Principles, and the Mobius of State Action, was accepted for publication in the Temple Law Review. The paper was featured on Larry Solum's Legal Theory Blog.
Darrell presented White Cartels, the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the History of Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co., 77 Fordham L. Rev. ___ (2008), at the Northeast People of Color Conference at Boston University. The paper was featured on Larry Solum's Legal Theory Blog.
Darrell's article, White Cartels, the Civil Rights Act of 1866, and the History of Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co., was accepted for publication in the Fordham Law Review. He presented the article as part of the 12th Annual UC Faculty Summer Scholarship Series.
Darrell completed another article, State DOMAs, Neutral Principles, and the Mobius of State Action, which is under consideration at several law reviews.
Darrell joined the faculty as Assistant Professor of Law. He published The Stain of Slavery: Notes Toward an Attainder Theory of the Thirteenth Amendment, 38 U. Tol. L. Rev. 1011 (2007).
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