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 Associate Professor of Law, Lewis
and Clark College, Portland, Oregon
Robert Miller is an Associate Professor of Law at
Northwestern
School of Law of Lewis & Clark College
in Portland, Oregon. He teaches Indian Law, Cultural
Resources Protection and other subjects. Before
joining the law school as a full time professor,
Mr. Miller taught Indian law courses as an adjunct
professor at Lewis and Clark from 1993-98 and at
Portland State University in 1996 and 1999. Mr.
Miller practiced Indian law with Hobbs, Straus,
Dean & Walker from 1995-99. He represented tribal
clients and Indian individuals in federal, tribal
and state court litigation and before federal agencies.
He also concentrated on tribal housing issues and
helped draft the federal regulations for the Native
American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination
Act. He has served as a tribal appellate judge for
various Northwest tribes since 1995.
Mr. Miller graduated from Northwestern School of
Law of Lewis & Clark College in 1991. In 1989-91,
he worked for the United States Attorney's Office.
After graduation, he clerked for Judge O'Scannlain
of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth
Circuit. He then worked as an attorney at the Stoel
Rives firm in Portland from 1992-95.
He serves on the boards of the National Indian Child
Welfare Association, the Oregon Native American
Business Entrepreneurial Network, the Eastern Oregon
University Foundation, and is a past Chair of the
Oregon State Bar Indian Law Section. Mr. Miller
has published numerous articles on Indian Law issues
such as fishing and hunting rights, economic development,
federal Indian alcohol policies, and tribal governments
and court systems in law review journals, Bar journals
and legal educational materials. He has spoken at
numerous federal and state training sessions on
Indian law and at various conferences at law schools
and colleges across the West. Mr. Miller is an enrolled
member of the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma.
His book, Native America; Discovered and Conquered, is available and can be ordered from the publisher.
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