MARK CARLTON MILLER June 2015
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CURRENT Professor of Political Science, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts.
POSITION: Assistant Professor, 1990-1996; Associate Professor 1996-2009.
Adjunct Professor of History, 2008-present.
Director, Law & Society Program, 1997-99, 2000-16.
Chair of the Department of Government and International Relations, 2001-2006.
Acing Chair of the Department of Political Science, spring 2012.
EDUCATION: B.A. with high distinction in Political Science and Public Administration,
Ohio Northern University, 1980.
M.A. in Political Science, The Ohio State University, 1989.
J.D. with honors, George Washington University, 1983. (Admitted to D.C. Bar 1983).
Ph.D. in American Politics, The Ohio State University, 1990.
Major: American Politics (Judicial, Legislative, Policy). Minor: Western Europe.
OTHER Fulbright Distinguished Bicentennial Chair, Fulbright scholar to the North American
EMPLOYMENT: Studies Program at the University of Helsinki, Finland, academic year 2014-2015.
Fulbright Thomas Jefferson Distinguished Chair, Fulbright scholar to the American Studies and History Programs at Leiden University, the Netherlands, spring 2008.
Visiting Scholar, American Political Science Association’s Centennial Center for Political Science and Public Policy, 2006-07.
Judicial Fellow. Supreme Court of the United States. August 1999-August 2000.
Research and speech writing for the Chief Justice, explaining the Court and the American legal system to foreign visitors, other research duties, and supervising college interns in the Office of the Administrative Assistant to the Chief Justice.
Congressional Fellow. U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone (D-MN). January-August 1995.
Advised him on budget, tax, foreign affairs, constitutional issues, and general domestic policy issues; wrote speeches; legislative drafting.
Ohio Attorney General Anthony Celebrezze's Office. June-September 1988.
Transportation Section (represented Ohio Dept of Transportation in all legal matters).
Legal Researcher/Assistant for Case Preparation, for a variety of civil cases.
U.S. Representative John F. Seiberling (D-Ohio). October 1983-September 1986.
Legislative Assistant/Staff Attorney. Responsible for Interior and Judiciary Committees.
Also intern supervision, press relations, speeches, letters, and advice on variety of issues.
EMPLOYMENT: U.S. Comptroller of the Currency, Office of Legislative Counsel. May 1982-May 1983. Legislative Law Clerk. Legal research and writing, drafting proposed legislation, and monitoring state and federal legislation affecting national banks.
U.S. Representative Bob Shamansky (D-Ohio). August 1981-December 1981.
Legislative Aide, (part-time). Handled foreign affairs, tax, and agriculture issues.
NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C. May-August 1981. Law Clerk.
Assistant to Chief of Employee Relations. Helped prepare grievance manual.
U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee. Intern. May-August 1979.
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS: Mark C. Miller. Judicial Politics in the United States. Boulder, CO: Westview Press (2014).
Mark C. Miller. The View of the Courts from the Hill: Interactions between Congress and the Federal Judiciary. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press (2009).
Mark C. Miller, editor. Exploring Judicial Politics. New York: Oxford University Press (2008).
Mark C. Miller and Jeb Barnes, editors. Making Policy, Making Law: An Interbranch Perspective. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press (2004).
Mark C. Miller. The High Priests of American Politics: The Role of Lawyers in American Political Institutions. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press (1995).
ARTICLES: Finnish Judges and the European Union: An American Perspective (in progress).
Law Clerks and their Influence at the U.S. Supreme Court: Comments on Recent Works by Peppers and Ward. Law & Social Inquiry, 39:741-57 (2014).
Constitutional Interpretation and Policy-Making: The Governance as Dialogue Movement.
Ohio Northern University Law Review. 40:337-57 (2014).
The Supreme Court as an Issue in Presidential Campaigns in the United States. Leidschrift Historisch Tijdschrift. 27:23-39 (2012).
The View of the Courts from the Hill: Governance as Dialogue. PS: Political Science & Politics, 40:179 (2007).
When Congress Attacks the Federal Courts. Case Western Reserve Law Review, 56:1015-1030 (2006).
Conflicts between the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and the Legislature: Campaign Finance Reform and Same-Sex Marriage. Pierce Law Review, 4:279-316 (2006).
Court-Legislative Interactions in Massachusetts. Judicature, 88:97-99 (2004).
Interactions between Legislatures and Courts. Judicature, 87:213-218 (2004).
ARTICLES: A Comparison of the Judicial Role in the United States and in Canada. Suffolk Transnational Law Review, 22:1-26 (1999).
A Comparison of Two Evolving Courts: The Canadian Supreme Court and the European Court of Justice. University of California-Davis Journal of International Law and Policy, 5:27-58 (1999).
Judicial Activism in Canada and the U.S. Judicature, 81:262-265 (1998).
A Legislative Perspective on the Ohio, Massachusetts, and Federal Courts. Ohio State Law Journal, 56:235-258 (1995).
Courts, Agencies, and Congressional Committees: A Neo-Institutional Perspective. The Review of Politics, 55:471-489 (1993).
Lawyers in Congress: What Difference Does It Make? Congress and the Presidency,
20:1-24 (1993).
Lawmaker Attitudes toward Court Reform in Massachusetts. Judicature, 77:34-40 (1993).
Congress and the Constitution: A Tale of Two Committees. Seton Hall Constitutional Law Journal, 3:317-362 (1993).
Congressional Committees and the Federal Courts: A Neo-Institutional Perspective. Western Political Quarterly, 45:949-970 (1992).
Note: The Diversion of U.S. Cargo Through Canadian Ports: An Evaluation of the Need for Regulation, George Washington Journal of International Law and Economics, 17:167-204 (1983) (with Peter J. Plocki).
CHAPTERS: Mark C. Miller. The Role of the Courts in the New European Constitution and in the U.S. Constitution: A Comparative Perspective. In Gary Overvold, Philippe Poirier and Lukas Sosoe, editors. Regards Croisés sur la Constitution Avorté de l’UE. Les Editions Romaines (2011), pp. 313-331.
Mark C. Miller. The Separation of Powers and Threats to Judicial Independence in the United States. In Leny E. deGroot-van Leeuwen and Wannes Rombouts , editors. Separation of Powers in a Comparative Perspective. Wolf Legal Publishers (2010), pp 81-99.
Mark C. Miller. Neoinstitutionalism. In John Ishiyama and Marijke Breuning, editors, 21st Century Political Science: A Reference Handbook. Sage (2010), pp. 22-28.
Mark C. Miller. Introduction: The Study of Judicial Politics. In Mark C. Miller, editor. Exploring Judicial Politics. New York: Oxford University Press (2008), pp. 1-9.
Mark C. Miller. Interactions between the Federal Courts and the Other Branches. In Mark C. Miller, editor. Exploring Judicial Politics. New York: Oxford University Press (2008), pp 274-293.
Mark C. Miller. Multidisciplinary Publishing: Reaching Those in Other Disciplines. In Stephen Yoder, editor. Publishing Political Science: APSA Guide to Writing and Publishing. Washington, D.C.: The American Political Science Association (2008), pp. 169-179.
Mark C. Miller. Interactions between Legislatures and Courts. In Elliot E. Slotnick, editor. Judicial Politics: Readings From Judicature, 3rd edition. Wash., D.C.: CQ Press (2005), 516-519.
CHAPTERS: Mark C. Miller. The View of the Courts from the Hill: A Neo-Institutional Perspective. In Mark C. Miller and Jeb Barnes, editors. Making Policy, Making Law: An Interbranch Perspective. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press (2004), pp. 53-71.
Jeb Barnes and Mark C. Miller. Governance as Dialogue. In Mark C. Miller and Jeb Barnes, editors. Making Policy, Making Law: An Interbranch Perspective. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press (2004), pp. 202-207.
Jeb Barnes and Mark C. Miller. Putting the Pieces Together: Lawmaking from an Interbranch Perspective. In Mark C. Miller and Jeb Barnes, editors. Making Policy, Making Law: An Interbranch Perspective. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press (2004), pp. 3-12.
Stephen G. Bragnaw and Mark C. Miller. The City of Boerne: Two Tales of One City. In Mark C. Miller and Jeb Barnes, editors. Making Policy, Making Law: An Interbranch Perspective. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press (2004), pp. 140-149.
ENCYCLOPEDIA
ENTRIES: Powell v. McCormack. In Stephen L. Schecter, ed. American Governance. New York: Macmillan (forthcoming).
Plessy v. Ferguson. In Stephen L. Schecter, ed. American Governance. New York: Macmillan (forthcoming).
Departmentalism. In Stephen L. Schecter, ed. American Governance. New York: Macmillan (forthcoming).
Legislature-Court Relations. In George Kurian, ed. International Encyclopedia of Political
Science. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press (2010).
The Legal Profession. In George Kurian, ed. International Encyclopedia of Political
Science. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press (2010).
State Judges. In Michael Genovese and Lori Han, eds. The Encyclopedia of American
Government and Civics. Facts-on-File (2008).
Lawyers as Politicians. In David S. Clark, ed. Encyclopedia of Law and Society: American
and Global Perspectives. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications (2007).
Bush v. Gore. In Ellis Katz, Joseph Marbach, and Troy Smith, eds. Federalism in America. Greenwood Press. (2005).
Luxembourg. In Neal Tate, editor. Governments of the World. Thompson Gale. (2005).
Norway. In Herbert M. Kritzer, editor, Legal Systems of the World: A Political, Social, and Cultural Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO (2002).
Luxembourg. In Herbert M. Kritzer, editor, Legal Systems of the World: A Political, Social, and Cultural Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO (2002).
Citizenship. In David Schultz, editor, Encyclopedia of American Law. Facts on File, Inc. (2002).
House Un-American Activities Committee. In David Schultz, editor, Encyclopedia of American Law. Facts on File, Inc. (2002).
ENTRIES: Hurtado vs. California. In David Schultz, ed. Encyclopedia of American Law. Facts on File (2002).
Advisory Opinions. In Thomas L. Lewis and Richard L. Wilson, eds., The Supreme Court. Salem Press. (2000).
The Senate Judiciary Committee. In Thomas L. Lewis and Richard L. Wilson, editors. The Supreme Court. Salem Press. (2000).
The Speech and Debate Clause. In Thomas L. Lewis and R. L. Wilson, eds. The Supreme Court. Salem Press. (2000).
The House Judiciary Committee. In Donald C. Bacon, Roger H. Davidson, and Morton Keller, eds. The Encyclopedia of the United States Congress. Simon and Schuster (1994).
REVIEWS: Review of What Do Lawyers Do? An Ethnology of a Corporate Law Firm, by John Flood. In the Law and Politics Book Review, an electronic publication of the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association. (December 2014).
Review of Lawyers in Practice: Ethical Decision Making in Context, edited by Leslie Levin and Lynn Mather. In the Law and Politics Book Review, an electronic publication of the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association. (June 2012).
Review of Citizens, Courts, and Confirmations by James Gibson and Gregory Caldeira and Law, Politics and Perception by Eileen Braman. In Political Psychology, (August 2011), pp 724-28.
Review of Private Lawyers and the Public Interest: The Evolving Role of Pro Bono in the Legal Profession, edited by Robert Granfield and Lynn Mather. In the Law and Politics Book Review, an electronic publication of the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association. (June 2011).
Review of Understanding Law and Society, by Max Travers. In the Law and Politics Book Review, an electronic publication of the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association. (June 2010).
Review of The End of Lawyers?: Rethinking the Nature of Legal Services, by Richard Susskind. In the Law and Politics Book Review, an electronic publication of the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association. (May 2009).
Review of The Importance of Being Honest: How Lying, Secrecy, and Hypocrisy Collide with Truth in Law, by Steven Lubet. In the Law and Politics Book Review, an electronic publication of the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association. (August 2008).
Review of Pro Bono in Principle and in Practice, by Deborah Rhode. In the Law and Politics Book Review, an electronic publication of the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association. (September 2005).
“Scholars Examine the Interactions between Congress and the Courts.” Review of Constitutional Deliberation in Congress: The Impact of Judicial Review in a Separated System, by J. Mitchell Pickerill and of Separation of Powers in Practice by Tom Campbell. In Judicature 88:141-142 (November-December, 2004).
Review of Something to Believe In: Politics, Professionalism & Cause Lawyering,
by Stuart Scheingold and Austin Sarat. In the Law and Politics Book Review, an electronic publication of the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Assoc. (Aug 2004).
REVIEWS: Review of Overruling Democracy: The Supreme Court vs. The America People, by Jamin B. Raskin. In the Law and Politics Book Review, an electronic publication of the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association (August 2003).
Review of Freedom of Speech: Rights and Liberties Under the Law by Ken I. Kersch. In the Law and Politics Book Review, an electronic publication of the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association (June 2003).
Review of Policing Hatred: Law Enforcement, Civil Rights, and Hate Crime by Jeannine Bell. In the Law and Politics Book Review, an electronic publication of the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association (October 2002).
Review of various books on BUSH V. GORE, including Dershowitz’s Supreme Injustice, Posner’s Breaking the Deadlock, Greene’s Understanding the 2000 Election, Sunstein and Epstein’s The Vote, and Gillman’s The Votes That Counted. In the Law and Politics Book Review, an electronic publication of the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Assoc. (Dec 2001).
Review of Freedom of Expression and the Criticism of Judges: A Comparative Study of European Legal Standards by Michael K. Addo. In the Law and Politics Book Review, electronic publication of the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association, 11:525-527 (November 2001).
Review of Designing Judicial Review: Interest Groups, Congress, and Communications Policy, by Charles R. Shipan. University of Michigan Press. In the American Political Science Review, 93:982-83 (1999).
Review of Conservative Reformers: The Republican Freshmen and the Lessons of the 104th Congress, by Nicol C. Rae. M.E. Sharpe. In the Political Science Educator published by the Undergraduate Education Section of the American Political Science Association. September 1998.
Review of The Supreme Court and American Constitutionalism, edited by Bradford P. Wilson and Ken Masugi. Rowman & Littlefield. Published online by the H-Net Reviews for Humanities & Social Sciences. June 1998.
Review of Animal Rights: The Changing Debate, edited by Robert Garner. NYU Press. In the Political Science Educator published by the Undergraduate Education Section of the American Political Science Association. May 1998.
Review of The Politics of the State Courts by Harry P. Stumpf and John H. Culver. For the Law and Politics Book Review of Law & Courts Section of the Amer. Pol. Science Assoc. March 1992.
HONORS & Fulbright Distinguished Bicentennial Chair, Fulbright scholar to the North American
AWARDS: Studies Program at the University of Helsinki, Finland, academic year 2014-2015.
Fulbright Thomas Jefferson Distinguished Chair, Fulbright scholar to the American Studies and History Programs at Leiden University, the Netherlands, spring 2008.
Clark University Outstanding Advisor of the Year, 1997, 2009, 2012.
(Honorable Mention for this award, 2011).