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Thomas Miles

  • Title: Dean of the Law School; Clifton R. Musser Professor of Law and Economics
  • Education: PhD, University of Chicago; JD, Harvard Law School; BA, Tufts University
  • Joined UChicago faculty: 2004
  • tmiles@law.uchicago.edu
  • @ProfTomMiles

Thomas Miles

Tom Miles is the dean of the University of Chicago Law School. He is a leading scholar of criminal justice and judicial behavior and an expert in a wide range of contemporary issues such as race and immigration enforcement. He has been widely published in economics and legal journals, with extensive expertise on such varied topics as judicial diversity, immigration, mail fraud, wiretapping, and now as dean, legal education. His work makes creative use of the tools of law and economics—an approach that originated at the Law School. Much of his work also employs statistical methods to study legal questions from a quantitative perspective.

Miles has taught a wide variety of courses at the Law School including securities regulation, federal criminal law, economic analysis of law, and empirical law & economics, as well as first-year criminal law and tort law. He has clerked for the Hon. Jay S. Bybee of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. From 2005 to 2013, Miles was an editor of the Journal of Legal Studies.

Miles Stories

U of C names new law school dean

Prof. Thomas J. Miles appointed dean of the University of Chicago Law School


Is there a teaching/scholarship trade-off in law schools?

Article examines paper by Profs. Tom Ginsburg and Thomas Miles, which studies relationship between scholarly output and teaching quality


Feds' deportation program may not reduce crime

Editorial cites Prof. Thomas Miles' research, which found deporting illegal immigrants who commit crimes has little effect on overall crime rate


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Deportations Don’t Lower Crime Rates, Study Says

Article cites research by Prof. Thomas Miles, which found deporting illegal immigrants who commit crimes has almost no effect on the overall crime rate


Community Prosecutions Credited With Drops In Crime

Prof. Thomas Miles discusses the effectiveness of community prosecution in neighborhoods for driving down violent crime rates


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