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    Alice Miller, JD

    Professor in the Practice (Social and Behavioral Sciences)
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    Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health

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    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.

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    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 Research Interests

    HIV; Human Rights

    Public Health Interests

    Climate Change; Community Health; Global Health; Health Equity, Disparities, Social Determinants and Justice; HIV/AIDS; Infectious Diseases; Reproduction; Women's Health

    Research at a Glance

    Research Interests

    Research topics Alice Miller is interested in exploring.

    Publications

    2024

    2019

    2011

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    Locations

    • Yale Law School

      Academic Office

      Goldman Law Library Annex

      127 Wall Street, Ste L-31

      New Haven, CT 06511

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      203.436.4778