Paul Steven Miller

Paul Steven Miller is the Henry M. Jackson Professor of Law and is regarded as an internationally renowned expert in disability and employment discrimination law. Professor Miller has spent his legal career moving between academia, public service, and law practice. Most recently, Professor Miller spent the first nine months of the Obama Administration as a Special Assistant to the President in The White House where he managed the Presidential appointments and nominations process for U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Department of Education, and many of the Independent Regulatory Agencies within the federal government. He also served on the Obama Transition Team as a member of the Department of Labor and the U.S Equal Employment Opportunity Commission agency review teams.

From 2006 to 2009, Professor Miller was the director of the University of Washington's Disability Studies Program, an interdisciplinary program that examines the social, cultural, historical and personal experience of disability. He is also a member of the UW Graduate School faculty, a Faculty Associate of the UW Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies, and a faculty advisor to the UW School of Law Health Law Concentration Track.

Prior to joining the law faculty, Professor Miller had been one of the longest serving commissioners of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency which enforces employment discrimination laws. While at the EEOC, Professor Miller spearheaded the development of the agency's successful mediation program. He also served in The White House as Liaison to the Disability Community and as Deputy Director of the U.S. Office of Consumer Affairs during the Clinton Administration. Earlier in his career, Professor Miller was the Director of Litigation for the Western Law Center for Disability Rights (now the Disability Law Center) and taught at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles and UCLA School of Law. He began his career as a litigation associate at a Los Angeles law firm.

Professor Miller is an active member of the American Bar Association's (ABA) Labor and Employment Section, and is a Fellow of the ABA Foundation. He was also elected to be a Fellow in the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers. He is a Fellow of the British American Project. In 2003, Professor Miller received an honorary Doctor of Laws from CUNY Law School. He is a former trustee of the University of Pennsylvania.

Professor Miller is a frequent speaker and lecturer in the area of equal employment opportunity, workplace diversity, disability issues, and the legal, social and ethical issues of the Human Genome Project, and he is a prolific writer on these topics. Professor Miller's expert insights on the topics of the workplace, disability, genetics and the law often appear in the national media, in print, television and radio. He has also testified before committees of the U.S. Congress and the British Parliament. He has received grant funding for his research and work in the areas of disability human rights, genomics and health equality, and bioethics. He has been the convener and chair of several national and international symposia, including Framing Legal and Human Rights Strategies for Change: A Case Study of Disability Rights in Asia (2008); and The Ethics and Policy of Limiting Growth in Children with Severe Disabilities: Issues of Decision Making, Benefits and Social Impact (2007).

In 2006, Professor Miller reprised his lead role as Don Baklava, in the revival production of the musical comedy Ring Job by The Mask and Wig Club.