Prof. Stephen R. Miller

Stephen R. Miller is Associate Dean for the Part-Time J.D. Program and Professor of Law at Northern Illinois University College of Law. Before joining NIU, he was Associate Dean for Faculty Development and a tenured professor at the University of Idaho College of Law in Boise, where his research on planning for wildfire in the wildland-urban interface was supported by grants from the U.S. Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management. A scholar of land use, real estate, environmental law, and sustainable development, he has written three treatises, five books, and more than sixty law review articles. He was editor-in-chief of the American Bar Association's Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Development Law from 2019 to 2021 and is now a senior editor, and he is an elected member of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers. He holds an A.B., magna cum laude, from Brown University, a J.D. from UC Law San Francisco, a Master of City Planning from the University of California, Berkeley, and an M.F.A. from Boise State University.