Russell A. Miller

Russell A. Miller (* 1969 ) is an American lawyer , professor , author and editor .

Life

Miller grew up in the small towns Priest River ( Idaho on) and Salmon (Idaho) before the study of the subject English literature at the Washington State University went. There he graduated in 1991 with the grade cum laude . In 1994 , he received his JD law doctorate and a Master of Arts degree from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina .

From 1999 to 2000 Miller was a fellow of the Robert Bosch Foundation . In 2002 he obtained the academic degree LL at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . M. (Master of Laws) and was able to work as a trainee at the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe and at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg until 2002 .

After his studies, Miller worked at the eastern United States District Court in Washington state and then went to teach at the University of Idaho in Moscow (Idaho) . In 2008 he was appointed to the law school of the private Washington and Lee University in Lexington , Virginia . There he teaches comparative legal theories and methods, comparative constitutional law, international public law and German law.

In the winter semester 2009/2010 Miller received a residency and research grant as part of the Fulbright program for the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg . He is the founder and editor of the German Law Journal , founded in 1999, and was appointed a Fellow in the Competence Network for Civil Security Law at the University of Freiburg in 2013.

Publications

Miller is known for his articles in newspapers and magazines such as the Los Angeles Times , FAZ and Der Spiegel . His books include The Constitutional Jurisprudence of the Federal Republic of Germany , published in 2012 with Donald P. Kommers , the third edition of which was published in 2012 by Duke University Press.

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