Thomas J. Miles | |
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| Education | Tufts University (BA) University of Chicago (PhD) Harvard University (JD) |
| Employer | University of Chicago Law School |
| Known for | Law and economics,criminal law,jurisprudence |
Thomas John Miles is an American legal scholar who is currently the Clifton R. Musser Professor of Law and Economics at theUniversity of Chicago Law School. He writes in the areas oflaw and economics,criminal law and judicial behavior.
Miles attendedTufts University as an undergraduate student in the late 1980s. He majored in political science and economics and graduatedsumma cum laude in 1990 as a member ofPhi Beta Kappa. He worked at theFederal Reserve Bank of Boston until 1993 before starting aPh.D. at theUniversity of Chicago, where he wrote on the economics of crime underGary Becker. After completing his Ph.D., he attendedHarvard Law School and earned a J.D.cum laude. He subsequently worked as a law clerk to JudgeJay Bybee on theUnited States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Miles began his career at theUniversity of Chicago Law School as an Olin Fellow of Law and Economics in 2004 and then as an assistant professor of law in 2005. In 2009, he was a visiting professor atColumbia Law School. Since 2013, Miles has been the Clifford R. Musser Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School,[1] a title previously held byWilliam Landes and, before him,Nobel laureate and former Chicago professorRonald Coase. Miles has published numerous journal articles in the areas oflaw and economics,criminal law and judicial behavior, often with an empirical focus. Together with economistSteven Levitt, he edited the bookEconomics of Criminal Law in 2008.[2] From 2005 to 2013, Miles was an editor of theJournal of Legal Studies. In 2015, he was appointed Dean of theUniversity of Chicago Law School.;[3] he was reappointed to a second term in 2020.[4] He co-teaches a seminar that discussescanonical ideas in American legal thought.[5]