Robert T. Miller
Robert T. Miller is an adjunct fellow at the Manhattan Institute and holds an Allison and Dorothy Rouse Chair in Law at the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University. An elected member of the American Law Institute and a research member of the European Corporate Governance Institute, Miller is also the co-director of the Program on Organizations, Business and Markets at the Classical Liberal Institute at the New York University Law School. Prior to joining the faculty at George Mason in 2025, Miller was the F. Arnold Daum Chair in Corporate Finance and Law at the University of Iowa College of Law.
Miller’s research concerns corporate and securities law, the economic analysis of law, and the philosophy of law. He has written on the fiduciary duties of corporate directors, director oversight liability, the history and development of Delaware corporate law, shareholder governance versus stakeholder governance, corporate social responsibility and the ESG movement, the relation of welfare economics to corporate law, the valuation of businesses in Delaware appraisal proceedings, and other topics related to mergers and acquisitions and other complex commercial transactions. His articles have been cited by federal and state courts in the U.S., including the Delaware Supreme Court and the Delaware Court of Chancery, as well as commercial courts in United Kingdom and Canada. In particular, the Delaware courts have cited Miller’s articles on material adverse effects, an issue the Court of Chancery has described as “one of the most difficult issues under Delaware law,” more than 40 times.
Miller has been a visiting professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, a visiting assistant professor of law at the Cardozo Law School, and an Olin Fellow in Law and Economics at the Columbia Law School. Before entering academia, Miller was an associate with Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. He earned his J.D. from Yale Law School, his M.A. and M.Phil. degrees in philosophy from Columbia University, and his B.A. in philosophy and mathematics from Columbia College. He has also published a widely used English translation of De Ente et Essentia, the most important metaphysical work of Thomas Aquinas.
His articles and working papers are available on his SSRN page.