Three members of the Law School faculty have received named professorships, effective January 1. William H.J. Hubbard, ’00, deputy dean, has been named the Clifton R. Musser Professor; Thomas J. Miles, former dean of the Law School, has been named the first Richard A. Posner Distinguished Service Professor of Law in the Wallman Society of Fellows; and Darrell A. H. Miller has been named the Harry N. Wyatt Professor.

The three law professors were part of a group of 32 UChicago faculty members receiving named or distinguished service professorships from the University.

William H. J. Hubbard, Clifton R. Musser Professor

Hubbard’s research primarily involves economic analysis of litigation, courts, and civil procedure. Formerly the Harry N. Wyatt Professor of Law, he is the author of the casebook Civil Procedure: An Integrated Approach and is coauthor of Court on Trial: A Data-Driven Account of the Supreme Court of India. He is a research professor at the American Bar Foundation and was editor of the Journal of Legal Studies from 2013 to 2024.

Hubbard received his law degree with high honors from the Law School in 2000, where he was executive editor of the Law Review. Hubbard clerked for Judge Patrick E. Higginbotham of the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. From 2001 to 2006, he practiced law as a litigation associate at Mayer Brown LLP in Chicago where he specialized in commercial litigation, electronic discovery, and appellate practice.

Before joining the UChicago faculty in 2011, Hubbard was a Kauffman Legal Research Fellow and Lecturer in Law at the Law School.

Thomas J. Miles, Richard A. Posner Distinguished Service Professor of Law in the Wallman Society of Fellows

Miles served as dean of the Law School from October 2015 through June 2025. During his deanship, Miles deepened the Law School’s distinctive commitment to path-breaking scholarship and transformative education.

Under his leadership, the Law School recruited more than a dozen academic and clinical faculty members and inaugurated the category of professor from practice. The scholarly ideas of the faculty were supported and shared more widely through the launch of three new centers. The clinical program expanded with the addition of three new clinics. Under Miles’s leadership, the Law School undertook the first significant revision to the 1L curriculum since 1977 and introduced the accelerated JD/MBA program.

As a scholar, Miles makes creative use of the methods of law and economics to investigate legal questions not conventionally thought to fall within that field. For example, he has written on judicial behavior and immigration enforcement. As a faculty member, he has taught a wide variety of courses at the Law School, including securities regulation, torts, first-year criminal law, economic analysis of law and federal criminal law. In 2009, he received the Graduating Students Award for Outstanding Teaching.

Miles clerked for Judge Jay S. Bybee of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He recently became a coeditor of the Journal of Law & Economics and previously was a coeditor of the Journal of Legal Studies.

Darrell A. H. Miller, Harry N. Wyatt Professor 

Miller is a scholar of civil rights, constitutional law, civil procedure, state and local government law and legal history. His scholarship on the Second and 13th Amendments has been published in leading law reviews such as the Yale Law Journal, the University of Chicago Law Review and the Columbia Law Review, and has been cited by several courts, including the Supreme Court of the United States. 

With Joseph Blocher, he is author of The Positive Second Amendment: Rights, Regulation, and the Future of Heller.  He has also recently published a textbook with three other firearms law scholars: The Second Amendment: Gun Rights and Regulation. In addition to his academic writing, Miller has written opinion pieces for the Washington Post, the New York Times and Slate.

Miller is a former clerk to Judge R. Guy Cole Jr. of the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and practiced complex and appellate litigation at a firm in Columbus, Ohio, before beginning his academic career.

Miller is an elected member of the American Law Institute and currently serves on its Council.