Arthur R. Miller

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fields = Civil procedure
workplaces = New York University School of Law
alma_mater = University of Rochester
Harvard Law School
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Arthur R. Miller (born 1934) is this nation’s leading scholar in the field of civil procedure and is coauthor with the late Charles Wright of Federal Practice and Procedure, the legendary treatise in the field. This multi-volume series is an essential reference for judges and lawyers. Miller is also one of the nation’s most distinguished legal scholars in the areas of civil litigation, copyright and unfair competition, and privacy, authoring more than 40 books and numerous articles, including The Assault on Privacy: Computers, Data Banks, and Dossiers (1971), the first book warning of the threat to privacy posed by modern information technology; Civil Procedure: Cases and Materials, (with J.H. Friedenthal, J. Sexton, and H. Hershkoff; 1967-2008 (nine editions)); Federal Practice and Procedure (with C.A. Wright, some with E.H. Cooper, M.K. Kane, and R. Marcus; 1968-2008, West Publishing Co. (more than thirty-five volumes)); Intellectual Property: Patents, Trademarks and Copyright in a Nutshell (with M.H. Davis, 1998-2008, West Publishing Co. (four editions)), among many others.

Miller is currently a University Professor at NYU School of Law and the NYU School of Continuing and Professional Studies. Previously, Miller was the Bruce Bromley Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where he earned his law degree and taught for 36 years. Miller is the recipient of numerous awards, including five honorary doctorates, three American Bar Association Gavel Awards and a Special Recognition Gavel Award for promoting public understanding of the law. He is a renowned commentator on law and society, He won an Emmy for his work on “The Constitution: That Delicate Balance,” one of the several acclaimed PBS series which he has moderated as well as served for two decades as the legal editor for ABC's Good Morning America and as the host of a weekly television show titled "Miller's Court" on WCVB-TV.

Miller has argued cases in all of the U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeal and several before the U.S. Supreme Court. He has worked in the public interest in the areas of privacy, computers, copyright, and the courts and has served as a member and reporter of the Advisory Committee of Civil Rules of the Judicial Conference of the U.S. by appointment of two Chief Justices of the United States, as Reporter and Advisor to the American Law Institute, a member of a special advisory group to the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, and as a member of various American Bar Association committees, among others. Miller was also appointed as commissioner on the United States Commission on New Technological Uses of Copyrighted Work by President Ford.

External links

* [http://www.nyu.edu/provost/faculty/law.miller.html NYU Faculty Biography]