Darrell A. H. Miller is a scholar of civil rights, constitutional law, civil procedure, state and local government law, and legal history at the University of Chicago.
His scholarship on the Second and Thirteenth Amendments has been published in leading law reviews such as the Yale Law Journal, the University of Chicago Law Review, and the Columbia Law Review, and has been cited by several courts, including the Supreme Court of the United States.
With Joseph Blocher, he is author of The Positive Second Amendment: Rights, Regulation, and the Future of Heller (Cambridge University Press, 2018). With others, he has also published a textbook: The Second Amendment: Gun Rights and Regulation (Foundation Press, 2025). In addition to his academic writing, Miller has written opinion pieces for the Washington Post, the New York Times, and Slate.
Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Chicago in 2024, Miller taught law at Duke University, where he co-founded the Duke Center for Firearms Law, the first academic center of its kind in the nation.
Miller is a former clerk to the Honorable R. Guy Cole, Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and practiced complex and appellate litigation before beginning his academic career.
A cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School, Miller also holds degrees from Oxford University, where he studied as a Marshall Scholar, and from Anderson University. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute and currently serves on its Council.