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Jessica Miles, Associate Professor of Law at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law

Jessica Miles

Associate Professor of Law
Elisabeth Haub School of Law
Domestic Violence Law
Family Law

Jessica Miles

White Plains
Preston Hall 301

Biography

Jessica Miles joined the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at 绿巨人视频 in 2023.

Professor Miles previously served on the faculty of Seton Hall University School of Law where directed the Family Law Clinic and taught Evidence, Domestic Violence Law, Family Law, Persuasion & Advocacy, Torts, and Adoption Law. She was voted Professor of the Year by the Seton Hall Law student body in 2022 and 2017. In addition, she was selected as Seton Hall University Teacher of the Year in 2020.

Professor Miles鈥檚 scholarship focuses on legal issues related to domestic violence and has been published in the Cardozo Law Review, University of Miami Law Review, and Thomson Reuters' Women and the Law.

Prior to entering academia, Professor Miles gained practice experience as a public interest lawyer focusing on domestic violence and family law. She represented indigent clients with nonprofit organizations in Florida, Maryland, and Pennsylvania as well as with the Committee for Public Counsel Services in Massachusetts.

Education

  • BA, Duke University
  • JD, New York University School of Law

Selected Publications

View all of Professor Miles鈥檚 publications on her CV (PDF).鈥

  • Judges Disgusted, 55 Seton Hall L. Rev. __ (forthcoming November 2024).
  • , 74 University of Miami L. Rev. 711 (2020) (Reprinted in Women and the Law (Tracy A. Thomas, ed., Thomson Reuters 2020))
  • , 35 Cardozo L. Rev. 141 (2013)
  • , Partners for Women and Justice and Seton Hall Law Center for Social Justice, (with Patricia Perlmutter) (December 2020)

Honors & Awards

  • Professor of the Year (2022) (Seton Hall Law)
  • Teacher of the Year (2020) (Seton Hall University)
  • Professor of the Year (2017) (Seton Hall Law)

Areas of Interest

Domestic Violence Law, Family Law

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Faculty and Staff

Growing up in Vermont, Professor Jessica Miles鈥檚 family struggled financially. 鈥淔rom a young age, I was always very concerned with issues related to poverty and income inequality. It spurred my interest in government and politics. By the time I was a teenager, I was actively working on political campaigns.鈥