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 Bucerius Law School, the University of Melbourne, Université Paris II – Panthéon-Assas, Peking University, and Tel Aviv University. 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. Miller is a member of the Editorial Board of the American Journal of Jurisprudence and 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

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

The Concept of Personality in Private Law, Private Law Hub, London School of Economics, London, UK, October 2023.

Political Trust, Public Justification, and the Judicial Role, Workshop: What is Good Government? Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, MA, November 2022.

The Morality of Fiduciary Law, Distinguished Global Faculty Lecture Series, Peking University Law School, Beijing, China, November 2022.

Formalism, Legality, and the Rule of Law, Legal Theory Seminar, USC Gould School of Law, Los Angeles, CA, April 2022.

Getting into Equity, Notre Dame Law Review Federal Courts Symposium, Notre Dame Law School, Notre Dame, IN, February 2022 (w/ Samuel Bray).

Upcoming and Recent Events

Co-organizer, Workshop for Oxford Studies in Private Law Theory, Volume IV, National University of Singapore School of Law, Singapore, Summer 2025 (with John Oberdiek and James Penner).

Co-organizer, Fiduciary Law Workshop IX, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, June 2024 (with Deborah DeMott, Andrew Gold, Sung Hui Kim, Gordon Smith, Julian Velasco, and with Robert Sitkoff as host).

Co-organizer, The Equity Workshop, King’s College London School of Law, London, UK, December 2023 (with Samuel Bray, Larissa Katz, and Irit Samet).

• A collaboration between the Notre Dame Program on Private Law, King’s College London, and the University of Toronto Faculty of Law

Co-organizer, North American Workshop on Private Law Theory X, Rutgers Law School, Camden, NJ, November 2023 (with Aditi Bagchi, Molly Brady, Andrew Gold, John Goldberg, Felipe Jiménez, Larissa Katz, Zoë Sinel, Henry Smith, Stephen Smith, and Rebecca Stone).

Co-organizer, Workshop on Reinach and Private Law Theory, Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, Frankfurt, Germany, August 2023 (with Marietta Auer, Henry Smith and James Toomey).

• A collaboration between the Notre Dame Program on Private Law, Harvard Law School’s Project on the Foundations of Private Law, and the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory

Co-organizer, Workshop for Oxford Studies in Private Law Theory, Volume III, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg, Germany, June 2023 (with Ralf Michaels and John Oberdiek).

• A collaboration between the Notre Dame Program on Private Law and the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law

Work in Progress

McClintock’s Handbook of the Principles of Equity, 3rd Ed. (Foundation Press, in progress) (with Samuel Bray).

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

Reinach on Personality and Representation, for Marietta Auer, Paul B. Miller, Henry Smith, and James Toomey, eds. Reinach and the Foundations of Private Law (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).

Political Trust, Public Justification, and Judicial Office, in What is Good Government? (Nikolas Kirby, ed.) (Oxford University Press).

Areas of Expertise

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