Arthur R. Miller

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Arthur R. Miller

Born	1934
Occupation	Law Professor
Employers	New York University School of Law

Arthur R. Miller (born 1934) is University Professor at NYU School of Law. Formerly, Miller was the Bruce Bromley Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Miller is co-author, with Professors Jack H. Friedenthal, Mary Kay Kane, and Helen Hershkoff of the casebook Civil Procedure (West Publishing 1985). He is also a co-author of Federal Practice and Procedure (Wright & Miller), a federal procedure treatise that is a major reference work for lawyers and law students in the United States.

For the past several years, Miller was a visiting Professor at New York University School of Law, and has also been a Professor at Concord Law School, where his lectures on Civil Procedure and Intellectual Property are available online to its students. Miller was also a legal advisor for ABC's Good Morning America and Court TV^[1]^[2], and the host of a weekly television show titled Miller's Court on WCVB-TV. Professor Miller is also the host of a popular series of legal self help videos online at RocketLawyer.com.

Miller graduated from University of Rochester in 1955 and Harvard Law School in 1958. After graduating from law school, he worked for three years at the New York law firm Cleary Gottlieb before beginning his academic career. He has taught at the University of Minnesota, the University of Michigan, Harvard Law School, and has been an advisor and supplementary lecturer at Concord Law School [1] (online). In May 2007, Miller left Harvard Law School, where he had taught since 1972, and accepted a permanent appointment at New York University School of Law as a University Professor.^[3]

Miller has for years enlisted the help of some of his students as research assistants, a notoriously demanding position for first and second year law students. Similar to the relationship between a judge and his or her clerks, Miller has stayed in touch with his former research assistants and many have gone on to important positions as law professors, Supreme Court clerks, and as partners at prestigious law firms. NYU President John Sexton was one of Miller's research assistants at Harvard.

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[2] The National Data Center And Personal Privacy, The Atlantic, Nov, 1967

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Miller claims to be the infamous Rudolph Perini,^[4] a pseudonym author Scott Turow used in his autobiographical account of Harvard Law School, One L, to describe a particularly abrasive professor.^[5] It is also rumored that the movie "The Paper Chase" based its classroom scenes on Miller's Harvard classroom. This, however, is impossible, since The Paper Chase was written in 1970, and Miller did not start teaching there until 1972. Also, Miller would have only been age 46 at the time, while the main focus of The Paper Chase is a grizzled, famous old professor at Harvard.