Paul B. Miller

Associate Dean for International and Graduate Programs
Robert and Marion Short Professor of Law

Office: 2160 Eck Hall Of Law
Phone: 574-631-1516
Email: paul.miller@nd.edu
Staff Assistant: Alicia Cummins
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Paul B. Miller is the Robert and Marion Short Professor of Law and Associate Dean for International & Graduate Programs at Notre Dame Law School, where he also serves as Director of the Notre Dame Program on Private Law. Miller taught previously at McGill University in Montréal and has held visiting appointments at several leading law schools worldwide. Miller is a private law theorist whose work focuses on general jurisprudence as well as philosophical questions in equity, fiduciary law, trust law, agency, and corporate law. His books include Philosophical Foundations of Fiduciary Law, The Oxford Handbook of Fiduciary Law, and Civil Wrongs and Justice in Private Law, Interstitial Private Law, and Reinach and the Foundations of Private Law. Miller is an Elected Member of the American Law Institute He also serves (with John Oberdiek) as the Editor for Oxford Private Law Theory and the associated series, Oxford Studies in Private Law Theory, both published by Oxford University Press.

Scholarship

Upcoming and Recent Presentations

Analogical Legal Personhood, Workshop on Philosophical Foundations of Corporate Law, Notre Dame Rome, June 2027.

Focal Legal Personhood, Workshop on Philosophical Foundations of Legal Personhood, University of Helsinki Faculty of Law, June 2027.

Two Concepts of Legal Agency, Faculty Workshop, Tulane Law School, March 2027.

Focal Legal Personhood, Law and Philosophy Colloquium, Fordham Law School, February 2027.

The Nature of Fiduciary Relationships, The Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference, London UK (hosted by William and Mary Law School), October 2026.

Corporate Personality, Purpose, and Liability, Workshop on the Legal Personhood of Groups, UC Berkeley School of Law, September 2026.

Two Concepts of Legal Agency, Workshop on Theories of Agency Relationships, UC Irvine School of Law, April 2026.

Good Faith as Integrity, Private Law Workshop, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Facultad de Derecho, January 2026

What the Realists Got Right, Insper Faculty workshop; Julius Stone Institute Seminar, Sydney Law School; Legal Theory Workshop, University of Auckland, February & March 2026

Reinach on Personality and Representation, Yale-Toronto Private Law Theory Discussion Group, Yale Law School and University of Toronto Faculty of Law, March 2024.

Upcoming and Recent Events

Co-organizer, Philosophical Foundations of Corporate Law Workshop, Notre Dame Rome, June 2027 (co-organized with Andrew Gold and Amy Sepinwall).
In association with the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and the UC Irvine School of Law

Co-organizer, Workshop: What is Private Law For? Private Law for a World in Transition, Notre Dame Rome, June 2027 (co-organized with Marija Bartl and Ernest Lim).
In association with the University of Amsterdam and the National University of Singapore

Host, North American Workshop on Private Law Theory XIII (NAWPLT XIII), Notre Dame Law School, May 2027

Co-organizer, Workshop for Oxford Studies in Private Law Theory, Volume V, University of Cape Town, January 2027.
In association with Rutgers Law School and the University of Cape Town

Co-organizer, Workshop for Handbook on Equity and Trusts, Notre Dame Rome, November 2026
In association with King’s College London

Co-organizer, Complex Systems Theory Summit, Notre Dame Dublin, May 2026.
In association with Harvard Law School and UC Irvine Law School

Co-organizer, The Equity Workshop IV, Notre Dame Chicago, May 2026.
In collaboration with King’s College London, the University of Chicago Law School, and the University of Toronto Faculty of Law

Co-organizer, Theories of Agency Relationships Workshop, UC Irvine School of Law, April 2026.
In association with Duke Law School and UC Irvine Law School

Co-organizer, Legal Personhood in Private Law Workshop, Notre Dame Rome, November 2025.
In association with the London School of Economics and the University of Toronto Faculty of Law

Work in Progress

Oxford Studies in Private Law Theory, Vol. IV (Oxford UP, forthcoming) (edited with John Oberdiek).

Legal Personhood in Private Law (Cambridge UP, forthcoming) (edited with Christopher Essert and Eva Micheler).

Focal Legal Personhood, for Visa Kurki and Ela Leshem, eds., Philosophical Foundations of Legal Personhood

Analogical Legal Personhood, for Andrew S. Gold, Paul B. Miller and Amy Sepinwall, eds., Philosophical Foundations of Corporate Law

Areas of Expertise

• Agency
• Fiduciary Law
• Non-profit Organizations
• Trusts & Estates