UW School of Law Professor Paul Steven Miller Professor Paul Steven Miller
will be featured on
Little People, Big World, a reality show produced by The Learning Channel, Saturday, April 15 at 8 p.m. In Saturday's episode, "Zach's Future",
Matt Roloff hopes to inspire his son, Zach, by introducing him to Professor
Miller, who served in the Clinton administration. Father and son also
attend a law class taught by Professor Miller.
An internationally renowned expert in disability law, Professor Miller
arrived at the UW School of Law in August 2004, after spending 12 years in
public service in Washington, D.C. He was one of the longest serving
commissioners of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC),
the federal agency which enforces this nation’s employment discrimination
laws. While at the EEOC, Professor Miller spearheaded the development of
the agency's successful mediation program. He has also served as the White
House liaison to the disability community and as deputy director of the
U.S. Office of Consumer Affairs.
Prior to joining the U.S. government, Professor Miller was the director of
litigation for the Western Law Center for Disability Rights. He has taught
disability and elderly rights, civil procedure, clinical litigation and
legal writing skills at Loyola Law School and at UCLA Law School. He began
his career as a litigation associate at a Los Angeles law firm.
Professor Miller has been active in many national and international
organizations and has served on several boards. Currently, he sits on the
ELSI (Ethics, Legal and Social Implications) Research Advisory Board of the
Human Genome Project at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), serves as
a member of the board of Mental Disability Rights International, and is a
fellow of the British American Project. He is a former trustee of the
University of Pennsylvania. Professor Miller is an active member of the
American Bar Association's Labor and Employment Section. In 2003, Professor
Miller received an honorary Doctor of Laws from CUNY Law School in New
York.
Little People, Big World follows the Roloffs, an extraordinary Oregon family comprised of both little and average-sized
people.