Professor Robert T. Miller

Robert T. Miller is the F. Arnold Daum Chair in Corporate Finance and Law and a Professor of Law at the University of Iowa College of Law, 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.

Professor Miller’s research concerns corporate and securities law, the economic analysis of law, and the philosophy of law. He is particularly interested in applying economic concepts and methods to understand contractual agreements between sophisticated commercial parties. He has written on material adverse effect clauses under Delaware law, insider trading law, the valuation of businesses in Delaware appraisal proceedings, 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, and corporate social responsibility. 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 Journal of Morality and Markets, and the Journal of Catholic Social Thought, among others. He aims to make his research relevant to the business community and practicing lawyers, and he has presented his work to members of the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association, the New York City Bar Association, and the California Society of Certified Public Accountants.

Professor Miller’s articles have been cited by federal and state courts in the United States and by the Commercial Court of the United Kingdom. In particular, the Delaware Court of Chancery has cited four of Professor Miller’s articles a combined forty-two times in four separate cases. Professor Miller has taught courses on mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, securities regulation, law and economics, antitrust, business associations, contracts, capitalism and deals. Professor Miller is a member of the Committee on Mergers, Acquisitions & Corporate Control Contests of the New York City Bar Association and a past chair of the association’s Corporation Law Committee.

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.

Before entering academia, Professor Miller was an associate at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. He earned his J.D. from the Yale Law School where he was a Senior Editor of the Yale Law Journal and an Olin Fellow in Law, Economics and Public Policy. He earned his M.A. and M.Phil. degrees in philosophy from Columbia University, where he held a Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation and a Western Civilization Fellowship from the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, and where he twice taught Literature Humanities, Columbia College’s course in great books for first-year students. He earned his B.A. in philosophy and mathematics from Columbia College.

Professor Miller writes for popular audiences at Public Discourse and First Things. He has also published a widely-used English translation of De Ente et Essentia, the most important metaphysical work of Thomas Aquinas.