Meredith R. Miller

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. Professor Miller teaches Contracts I, Contracts II, Business Organizations I, Business Organizations II, Employment Law and Workplace Law in Global Context. Her teaching has twice been recognized by her students with a “Professor of the Year” award.

 

Prior to teaching, Professor Miller served as a law clerk to the New York Court of Appeals. She also worked as an 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 continues to consult and co-counsel with other attorneys on litigation, arbitration and appeals in corporate, commercial, employment and emplyment matters. She is trained as a mediator and serves as an arbitrator for FINRA. She also provides transactional representation to emerging and established businesses. 

 

Professor Miller is a past president of LeGaL, the LGBT Bar Association of Greater New York, where she served on the board for a decade. She is also a past president of the Network of Bar Leaders, where she continues to serve on its Leadership Advisory Council.  By appointment of the Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, she is a member of the Richard C. Failla LGBTQ Commission of the New York State Courts.

 

She received her J.D., cum laude, from Brooklyn Law School, where she was an 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 scholarly writing focuses on contract doctrine and theory, employment law and closely-held business law. Her scholarship has helped shape the path of the law, and has been cited in leading Contracts casebooks and by a number of courts, including the Maryland Supreme Court and the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts.   

 

From 2005-2014, Professor Miller served as a Contributing Editor to Contracts Prof Blog, the Official Blog of the AALS Section on Contracts.