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

Thomas Miles received his B.A. 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 Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago. He received his J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School. Dr. Miles served as a law clerk to the Honorable 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 & economics. He has previously taught law & economics and the workshop on crime & punishment. He is also a co-editor of The Journal of Legal Studies.