Teresa A. Miller
Professor
B.A., Duke University
J.D., Harvard University
LL.M., University of Wisconsin
University at Buffalo Law School
The State University of New York
715 O'Brian
Hall, North Campus
Buffalo, NY 14260-1100
Phone:(716) 645-2391
Assistant:
Deborah Nasisi, 410 O'Brian Hall, Phone: (716) 645-2459
Biography:
Teri Miller graduated from Harvard Law School in 1986. After serving as a research and writing instructor at the University of Miami School of Law for two years, Miller pursued a Master's Degree at the University of Wisconsin Law School as a Hastie Fellow. Returning to Miami to clerk for the Hon. William M. Hoeveler in the Southern District of Florida, Miller was involved in a wide variety of federal cases, including the criminal trial of Manuel Noriega. After practicing in Florida in the areas of securities litigation and accountant's liability, Miller joined the law faculty at the University at Buffalo in 1995.
Miller researches and writes about the growing use of immigration law to effect criminal law enforcement outcomes. She regularly travels throughout New York State, evaluating conditions at state prisons on behalf of the Correctional Association of New York.
As chair of the law school Technology and Communications Committee, Miller has been at the forefront of applying digital video technology in the classroom, as well as in scholarship. In 2008, Miller produced a 24-minute film, "Encountering Attica." The film tracked three UB Law students who agreed to meet with inmates serving life sentences at Attica Prison throughout their first year of law school as a way of better understanding how law operates in an applied, institutional context.
Miller's recent creative activity includes producing and directing a documentary film challenging the notion that inmates and their families alone are negatively impacted by long-term incarceration. Her documentary explores how correctional officers, civilian employees and administrators "do time," including how they adjust to the maximum-security setting in ways not unlike those of inmates. This adjustment includes functioning in a racialized sphere with huge disparities in power, and living with the legacy of the Attica Prison Uprising some thirty-eight years after the event irreversibly altered the landscape of contemporary corrections.
Selected Publications:
Books
Civil Penalties, Social Consequences (with C.Mele, editors) (Routledge, 2005)
Articles
A New Look at Neo-Liberal Economic Policies and the Criminalization of Undocumented Migration, SMU Law Review vol. 61:171-188 (2008)
Blurring the Boundaries Between Immigration and Crime Control after Sept. 11th, Boston College Third World Law Journal vol. 25: 81-123 (2005)
Citizenship and Severity: Recent Immigration Reforms and the New Penology, Georgetown Immigration Law Journal vol. 17: 611-666 (2003) Keeping The Government's Hands Off Our Bodies: Mapping a Feminist Legal Theory Approach to Privacy in Cross-Gender Prison Searches, Buffalo Criminal Law Review vol. 4: 861-889 (2001)
Sex and Surveillance: Gender, Privacy and the Sexualization of Power in Prison, George Mason University Civil Rights Law Journal vol. 291-356 (2000)
Chapters
Incarcerated Masculinities, Progressive Black Masculinities (A.D. Mutua, editor) (Routledge, 2006)
By Any Means Necessary: Collateral Civil Penalties of Non- U.S. Citizens and the War on Terror, Civil Penalties, Social Consequences (C.Mele & T. Miller, editors) (Routledge, 2005)
The Impact of Mass Incarceration on Immigration Policy, Invisible Punishment: the Collateral Consequences of Mass Incarceration (M.Mauer & M. Chesney-Lind, editors) (New Press, 2002)
