Thomas J. Miles

Thomas Miles received his BA in political science and economics summa cum laude from Tufts University. After college, he was a research assistant at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, where he received the Bank President's Award for Outstanding Achievement. Dr. Miles was a doctoral fellow at the American Bar Foundation and received his PhD in economics from the University of Chicago. He received his JD cum laude from Harvard Law School. Dr. Miles served as a law clerk to the Hon. Jay S. Bybee of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Before joining the faculty, he was the Olin Fellow in Law and Economics at the Law School. He currently teaches federal criminal law, federal regulation of securities, torts, and a seminar on empirical law and economics. He has previously taught law and economics and the workshop on crime and punishment. He is also a co-editor of the Journal of Legal Studies.