Thomas J. Miles
Assistant Professor of Law
1111 East 60th Street, Room 502
Chicago, IL 60637
phone: 773 834-4163
email: tmiles@law.uchicago.edu

EDUCATION
Harvard Law SchoolJ.D., cum laude, 2003
John M. Olin Fellowship in Law and Economics
Irving Oberman Memorial Award for Written Work on Corporate Governance
John M. Olin Prize for Written Work in Law and Economics

University of Chicago
Ph.D., Department of Economics, 2000
Dissertation: Three Empirical Essays in the Economics of Crime
Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Fellowship
University of Chicago Century Scholarship
Illinois Economics Association Prize for Outstanding Graduate Student Paper

Tufts University
B.A., summa cum laude, in Political Science and Economics, 1990
Phi Beta Kappa
James Vance Elliott Political Science Prize
Marion Ricker Houston Prize Scholarship in Economics

EXPERIENCE

The University of Chicago Law SchoolAssistant Professor of Law, 2005 - present
Editor, Journal of Legal Studies
Olin Fellow in Law and Economics, and Lecturer in Law, 2004 - 2005

The Honorable Jay S. Bybee, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitLaw Clerk, 2003 - 2004

Ropes & Gray
Summer Associate, 2002

American Bar Foundation
Doctoral Dissertation Fellow in residence, 1998 - 2000

Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Research DepartmentResearch Assistant and Associate to Director of Research, 1990 - 1993Federal Reserve Bank of Boston President's Award for Outstanding Achievement