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Professor Robert James Miller
Tribal Citizen, Tribal Judge, Faculty Director Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law
Professor Miller is the Faculty Director of the Rosette LLP American Indian Economic Development Program at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University. He is the Willard H. Pedrick Distinguished Research Scholar and Interim Chief Justice of the Pascua Yaqui Tribe Court of Appeals.
Robert J. Miller’s areas of expertise are Federal Indian Law, American Indians and international law, American Indian economic development, Native American natural resources, and Civil Procedure.
In 2014, Professor Miller was elected to the American Philosophical Society, the oldest learned society in the United States and was created by Benjamin Franklin in 1743. Thomas Jefferson served as president of the APS for seventeen years overlapping his Presidency of the United States. In its 280 year history, the APS has elected just over 5,000 members.
Previously, Professor Miller was on the faculty of Lewis & Clark Law School and has practiced Indian law with Hobbs, Straus, Dean & Walker, and litigation with the Stoel Rives law firm. Following graduation from law school, he clerked for Judge Diarmuid O’Scannlain, appointed in 1986 by President Ronald Reagan to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Professor Miller’s scholarly works include articles, books, and book chapters on a wide array of Federal Indian Law issues and Civil Procedure, and he speaks regularly on Indian Law issues across the U.S. and abroad. He is the author of several books including Native America, Discovered and Conquered: Thomas Jefferson, Lewis and Clark, and Manifest Destiny, and co-authored Discovering Indigenous Lands: The Doctrine of Discovery in the English Colonies, among others.
MYLES V. LYNK | GUEST MODERATOR
National Advisory Board Member
Sandra Day O'Connor Institute For American Democracy
Myles Lynk is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law School and is the senior assistant disciplinary counsel for appellate litigation in the District of Columbia Office of Disciplinary Counsel. He is an emeritus professor of law at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University.
Before joining the ODC he was the first Peter Kiewit Foundation Professor of Law and the Legal Profession at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, where he taught civil procedure, business and corporate law, and professional responsibility. Prior to teaching, Myles was a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Dewey Ballantyne LLP, served as an Assistant Director on the White House Domestic Policy Staff under President Carter and was a Special Assistant to the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. Following law school, he clerked for Judge Damon J. Keith of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. He earned a B.A. from Harvard and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.
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