Prof. Robert T. Miller

Professor Miller is the F. Arnold Daum Chair in Corporate Finance and Law and a Professor of Law at the University of Iowa, as well as a Fellow at the Classical Liberal Institute at the New York University Law School where he co-directs the institute’s Program on Organizations, Business and Markets. An elected member of the American Law Institute, he also holds research positions at the Law & Economics Center at the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University and the James Wilson Institute on Natural Rights and the American Founding.

Professor Miller’s research concerns corporate and securities law, the economic analysis of law, and the philosophy of law. His writings have been cited in commercial and corporate cases by federal and state courts in the United States, as well as courts in the United Kingdom and Canada. The Delaware courts have cited his works more than 40 times. He has written on material adverse effect clauses, prohibitions by employers on insider trading by their employees, the valuation of businesses in Delaware appraisal proceedings, pricing anomalies in the market for corporate control, the history and development of Delaware corporate law, the fiduciary duties of corporate directors, Rule 10b-5 securities fraud in connection with business combination transactions, risk transfers in securitization transactions, corporate social responsibility and the ESG movement, and shareholder governance versus stakeholder governance. His articles have appeared in Business Lawyer, the Journal of Corporation Law, the European Journal of Law & Economics, the William & Mary Law Review, the Southern California Law Review, the Notre Dame Law Review, the Supreme Court Economic Review, the Cardozo Law Review, the Review of Banking and Financial Law, the Journal of Morality and Markets, and the Journal of Catholic Social Thought, among others. Professor Miller is also the co-author of a casebook on mergers and acquisitions published by Foundation Press. His articles and working papers are available on his SSRN page.

Professor Miller teaches courses on business associations, mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, securities regulation, antitrust, economic analysis of law, and contracts, as well as seminars on capitalism and complex corporate transactions. Professor Miller is often quoted in the press in publications like The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg News, NPR, Law360, Yahoo Finance, and Business Insider.

Before joining the faculty at the University of Iowa College of Law, Professor Miller was a Professor of Law at the Villanova University School of Law and the Associate Director of the Matthew J. Ryan Center for the Study of Free Institutions and the Public Good at Villanova University. He has been a Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, a Visiting Assistant Professor of Law at the Cardozo Law School, and an Olin Fellow in Law and Economics at the Columbia Law School.

He earned his B.A., M.A., and M.Phil. degrees in philosophy from Columbia and his J.D. from Yale.