Alice Miller, JD
Professor in the Practice (Social and Behavioral Sciences)Cards
About
Titles
Professor in the Practice (Social and Behavioral Sciences)
Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health
Biography
Alice Miller is an Associate Professor (Adjunct) of Law at Yale Law School and co-director of the Global Health Justice Partnership. She is also an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Yale School of Public Health and a Lecturer in Global Affairs at the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs at the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies. An expert in gender, sexuality, health and international human rights, Miller previously taught at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, where she was faculty director of the Women’s Institute for Leadership Development, and at Columbia University, where she was co-director of the Center for the Study of Human Rights. She holds a B.A. from Harvard and a J.D. from University of Washington School of Law.
Appointments
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Professor in the PracticePrimarySchool of Law
Associate Professor AdjunctSecondary
Other Departments & Organizations
Education & Training
- JD
- University of Washington School of Law (1985)
- BA
- Harvard College, Harvard University (1979)
Research
Overview
Ali Miller is an associate research scholar in law and Robina
Foundation Human Rights fellow at Yale Law School. She is an expert on women’s rights, sexual and reproductive
rights and health as a human right.
Professor Miller has over 20 years of policy and advocacy experience
with non-governmental organizations including Amnesty International, Human
Rights Watch and Talking about Reproductive and Sexual Health Issues in
India. Professor Miller’s scholarship
and policy work has addressed gendering humanitarian law, safe migration and
anti-trafficking policies, criminal law, and specifically abolition of the
death penalty, sexual and reproductive health and lesbian, gay, bisexual and
transgender rights.
Professor Miller received her J.D. from the University of Washington
School of Law. She served as
co-director of Columbia University’s Center for the Study of Human Rights. Professor Miller is a visiting
professor at the Sexuality and Rights Institute in Pune, India and Istanbul,
Turkey and at the Summer Institute on Sexuality, Culture and Society at the
University of Amsterdam. She is a
senior fellow at the Miller Institute for Global Challenges and the Law and the
faculty director for the Women’s Institute for Leadership and Development for
Human Rights Initiative at the UC Berkeley School of Law. Professor Miller also sits on advisory
boards for Human Rights Watch and the International Gay and Lesbian Human
Rights Commission and serves as a manuscript reviewer for a number of journals,
including American Journal of Public Health, Health and Human Rights: An
International Quarterly Journal and Reproductive Health Matters.
Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
News
News
- July 29, 2024
As the 2024 Summer Olympics begin, the Sports Equity Lab at Yale focuses on athletes’ rights
- June 20, 2024Source: Yale Law School
Report Seeks to Prevent Interpersonal Violence in Elite Sports
- March 21, 2023
Handbook Helps Navigate Non-Prosecution Policies for Sex Work
- November 28, 2022
Global Health Justice Partnership Brings Students to the Front Lines of Public Health Policy, Practice, and Law