Robert (Bob) Miller

Miller, Robert J. -  (Eastern Shawnee) has been a professor at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University since 2013. He is the Jonathan and Wendy Rose professor of Law.  He was the Willard H. Pedrick Distinguished Research Scholar at ASU from 2019-2024. Bob is also the director of the Rosette LLP American Indian Economic Development Program. He was elected to the American Law Institute in 2012 and to the American Philosophical Society (APS) in 2014 (which elected only 5,506 members from 1743-2014). Bob was elected to the APS Governing Council in 2024. He graduated from Lewis and Clark Law School in 1991 and then clerked for the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. He worked for two law firms in Portland, Oregon from 1992-99 and was then a full-time professor at Lewis & Clark Law School from 1999-2013. Bob is the Chief Justice for the Pascua Yaqui Tribe Court of Appeals and an appellate judge for other tribes. He has written over fifty books, book chapters, articles, and editorials on Indian law issues, and spoken at conferences in thirty-two states and Australia, Canada,England, India, and New Zealand. He is the author and co-author of five books: Native America, Discovered and Conquered: Thomas Jefferson, Lewis & Clark and Manifest Destiny (Praeger 2006); Discovering Indigenous Lands: The Doctrine of Discovery in the English Colonies (Oxford University Press 2010); Reservation “Capitalism:” Economic Development in Indian Country (Praeger 2012); Creating Private Sector Economies in Native America: Sustainable Development through Entrepreneurship (Cambridge University Press 2019); and A Promise Kept: The Muscogee (Creek) Nation and McGirt v. Oklahoma (University of Oklahoma Press 2023).