Meredith R. Miller

Associate Professor of Law

B.A., cum laude, Union College; J.D., cum laude, Brooklyn Law School; LL.M. in Legal Education, Temple University School of Law

Room:  313A
Phone: 631 761-7133
Email:  MMiller@tourolaw.edu

Meredith R. Miller joined the Touro Law Center faculty in Fall 2006 after serving for two years as an Honorable Abraham L. Freedman Fellow and Lecturer in Law at Temple University School of Law in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Professor Miller teaches Contracts I, Contracts II, Business Organizations I, and Business Organizations II. The students voted her “Professor of the Year” for 2008-2009.

Prior to teaching, Professor Miller served as a law clerk to the New York Court of Appeals. She also worked as a litigation associate at Proskauer Rose LLP in New York City, where she litigated complex commercial and pro bono matters and served as a pro bono advisor to first year associates. Professor Miller has a varied legal background. She has worked in government and public interest organizations, at a small private practice, at a large national law firm, and on consulting projects with solo practitioners and small firms.

She received her J.D., cum laude, from Brooklyn Law School, where she was Executive Articles and Research Editor of the Brooklyn Law Review, an Edward V. Sparer Public Interest Fellow and a Richardson Merit Scholar. She earned an LL.M. in Legal Education from Temple University Law School.

Professor Miller’s most recent publications include:

-         Contract Law, Party Sophistication and the New Formalism, 75 Missouri L. Rev. (forthcoming).

-         Contracting Out of Process, Contracting Out of Corporate Accountability: An Argument Against Enforcement of Pre-Dispute Limits on Process, 75 Tenn. L. Rev. 365 (2008) (lead article);

-         A Picture of the New York Court of Appeals at the Time of Wood v. Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon, 28 Pace L. Rev. 357 (2008) (symposium);

-         Book Review, Bernard S. Meyer et al., The History of the New York Court of Appeals, 1923-2003, 24 Touro L. Rev. 163 (2008); and

-         Revisiting Austin v. Loral: A Study in Economic Duress, Contract Modification and Framing, 2 Hastings Bus. L. J. 357 (2006).

Her article on Austin v. Loral has been cited by some of the leading contracts casebooks. Professor Miller’s publications can be accessed on her Science Research Network (SSRN) author page.

Since 2005, Professor Miller has served as a Contributing Editor to ContractsProf Blog, the Official Blog of the AALS Section on Contracts.