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 The Oxford Handbook of Fiduciary Law, 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

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 collaboration with the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and the UC Irvine School of Law

Co-organizer, Quirky Private Law Workshop, Notre Dame Rome, June 2027 (co-organized with Marija Bartl and Ernest Lim).

• In collaboration 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 collaboration 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 collaboration with King’s College London

Co-organizer, Complex Systems Theory Summit, Notre Dame Dublin, May 2026.

• In collaboration 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 collaboration with Duke Law School and UC Irvine Law School

Co-organizer, Legal Personhood in Private Law Workshop, Notre Dame Rome, November 2025.

• In collaboration 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).

The Fragmentation of Legal Personhood, for Christopher Essert, Eva Micheler, and Paul B. Miller, eds., Legal Personhood in Private Law (Cambridge UP, forthcoming).

Good Faith as Integrity: Good Faith and the Nature of Voluntary Obligation, for Theoretical Inquiries in Law (forthcoming).

Areas of Expertise

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