The NYU Annual Survey of American Law dedicated its 67th volume to Professor Arthur R. Miller. The ceremony took place at the Law School on April 14, 2010.
Professor Miller is a leading expert in U.S. civil procedure. From 1972 until 2007 he was a professor at the Harvard Law School, and continues to teach law as a University Professor at New York University. He co-authored Civil Procedure, the widely used casebook, as well as Federal Practice and Procedure, a multi-volume treatise considered the major reference work on the federal courts for lawyers, judges, and law students in the United States. He was the “on air” legal expert for ABC’s Good Morning America, Court TV, and host of a weekly television show titled Miller’s Court.
Speakers on his behalf included: Brad Friedman, Esq., Partner, Milberg; Charles Gibson, Former Anchor, ABC’s Good Morning America, Former Anchor, ABC’s World News with Charlie Gibson; Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States; Henry Gutman, Esq., Partner, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett; Judge Robert Sack, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit; John Sexton, President, New York University, Dean Emeritus, New York University School of Law, Benjamin F. Butler Professor of Law, New York University School of Law; Professor David Shapiro, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law Emeritus, Harvard Law School, Faculty in Residence, New York University School of Law; Professor Linda Silberman, Martin Lipton Professor of Law, New York University School of Law; Jeffrey Toobin, Senior Analyst, CNN Worldwide, Legal Analyst, The New Yorker.