Mark Miller, J.D., Ph.D.

Professor of Government
Director of Law and Society Program
Department of Government
Clark University
Worcester, MA 01610-1477

email: mmiller@clarku.edu

Current Research and Teaching

To learn more about Mark's research, go to Clark's Active Learning and Research pages.

Books

Mark C. Miller. The View of the Courts from the Hill: Interactions between Congress and the Federal Judiciary  University of Virginia Press (2009).

Mark C. Miller, editor. Exploring Judicial Politics. Oxford University Press (2008).

Mark C. Miller and Jeb Barnes, editors. Making Policy, Making Law: An Interbranch Perspective. Georgetown University Press (2004).

Mark C. Miller. The High Priests of American Politics: The Role of Lawyers In American Political Institutions. University of Tennessee Press (1995).

Articles

The View of the Courts from the Hill: Governance as Dialogue. PS: Political Science & Politics 40:179 (2007).

When Congress Attacks the Federal Courts. Case Western Reserve Law Review, 56:1015-1030 (2006).

Conflicts between the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and the Legislature: Campaign Finance Reform and Same-Sex Marriage. Pierce Law Review, 4:279-316 (2006).

Court-Legislative Interactions in Massachusetts. Judicature, 88:97-99 (2004).

Interactions between Legislatures and Courts. Judicature, 87:213-218 (2004).

A Comparison of the Judicial Role in the United States and in Canada. Suffolk Transnational Law Review, 22:1-26 (1999).

A Comparison of Two Evolving Courts: The Canadian Supreme Court and the European Court of Justice. University of California-Davis Journal of International Law and Policy, 5:27-58 (1999).

Judicial Activism in Canada and the U.S. Judicature, 81:262-265 (1998).

A Legislative Perspective on the Ohio, Massachusetts, and Federal Courts. Ohio State Law Journal, 56:235-258 (1995).

Courts, Agencies, and Congressional Committees: A Neo-Institutional Perspective. The Review of Politics, 55:471-489 (1993).

Lawyers in Congress: What Difference Does It Make? Congress and the Presidency, 20:1-24 (1993).

Lawmaker Attitudes toward Court Reform in Massachusetts. Judicature, 77:34-40 (1993).

Congress and the Constitution: A Tale of Two Committees. Seton Hall Constitutional Law Journal, 3:317-362 (1993).

Congressional Committees and the Federal Courts: A Neo-Institutional Perspective. Western Political Quarterly, 45:949-970 (1992).

Note: The Diversion of U.S. Cargo Through Canadian Ports: An Evaluation of the Need for Regulation, George Washington Journal of International Law and Economics, 17:167-204 (1983) (with Peter J. Plocki). 

Chapters

Mark C. Miller. Introduction: The Study of Judicial Politics. In Mark C. Miller, editor. Exploring Judicial Politics. New York: Oxford University Press (2008), pp. 1-9.

Mark C. Miller. Interactions between Legislatures and Courts. In Elliot E. Slotnick, editor. Judicial Politics: Readings From Judicature, 3rd edition. CQ Press (2005).

Mark C. Miller. The View of the Courts from the Hill: A Neo-Institutional Perspective. In Mark C. Miller and Jeb Barnes, editors. Making Policy, Making Law: An Interbranch Perspective. Georgetown University Press (2004).

Jeb Barnes and Mark C. Miller. Governance as Dialogue. In Mark C. Miller and Jeb Barnes, editors. Making Policy, Making Law: An Interbranch Perspective. Georgetown Univ Press (2004).

Jeb Barnes and Mark C. Miller. Putting the Pieces Together: Lawmaking from an Interbranch Perspective. In Mark C. Miller and Jeb Barnes, editors. Making Policy, Making Law: An Interbranch Perspective. Georgetown University Press (2004).

Stephen G. Bragnaw and Mark C. Miller. The City of Boerne: Two Tales of One City. In Mark C. Miller and Jeb Barnes, editors. Making Policy, Making Law: An Interbranch Perspective. Georgetown University Press (2004).

Mark C. Miller. Interactions between the Federal Courts and the Other Branches. In Mark C. Miller, editor. Exploring Judicial Politics. Roxbury Press (forthcoming).

Mark C. Miller. Introduction: The Study of Judicial Politics. In Mark C. Miller, editor. Exploring Judicial Politics. Roxbury Press (forthcoming).

Mark C. Miller. Multidisciplinary Publishing: Working with Those in Other Disciplines. APSA Guide to Publishing. The American Political Science Association (forthcoming).

Mark C. Miller. The Role of the Courts in the New European Constitution and in the U.S. Constitution: A Comparative Perspective. In Lukas K. Sosoe, Gary Overvold, and Philippe Poirier, eds. Colloquium on the European Constitution: Challenges and Future Prospectives, Editions de Bruylant (forthcoming).

Mark C. Miller. The Role of the Courts in the New European Constitution and in the U.S. Constitution: A Comparative Perspective. In Lukas K. Sosoe and Philippe Poirier, eds. Proceedings of the 2005 Colloquium on the European Constitution, Luxembourg: Office of the Official Publications of the European Communities (forthcoming).

Mark C. Miller. The United States of America and the European Union: Distinct Models of Constitutional Unions? In Christian Franck, Philippe Poirier, and Lukas Sosoe, eds. The European Constitutional Treaty: The Process of Ratification and the Actors on the European Public Space. Editions de Bruylant. (forthcoming, translated into French).

Encyclopedia

State Judges. In Michael Genovese and Lori Han, eds. The Encyclopedia of American

Entries

Government and Civics. Facts-on-File (forthcoming).

Lawyers as Politicians. In David S. Clark, ed. Encyclopedia of Law and Society: American and Global Perspectives. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications (2006).

Bush v. Gore. In Ellis Katz, Joseph Marbach, and Troy Smith, eds. Federalism in America. Greenwood Press. (2005).

Luxembourg. In Neal Tate, editor. Governments of the World. Thompson Gale. (2005). Norway. In Herbert M. Kritzer, editor, Legal Systems of the World: A Political, Social, and Cultural Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO (2002).

Luxembourg. In Herbert M. Kritzer, editor, Legal Systems of the World: A Political, Social, and Cultural Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO (2002).

Citizenship. In David Schultz, editor, Encyclopedia of American Law. Facts on File, Inc. (2002).

House Un-American Activities Committee. In David Schultz, editor, Encyclopedia of American Law. Facts on File, Inc. (2002).

Hurtado vs. California. In David Schultz, ed. Encyclopedia of American Law. Facts on File,(2002).

Advisory Opinions. In Thomas L. Lewis and Richard L. Wilson, eds., The Supreme Court. Salem Press. (2000).

The Senate Judiciary Committee. In Thomas L. Lewis and Richard L. Wilson, editors. The Supreme Court. Salem Press. (2000).

The Speech and Debate Clause. In Thomas L. Lewis and R. L. Wilson, eds. The Supreme Court. Salem Press. (2000).

The House Judiciary Committee. In Donald C. Bacon, Roger H. Davidson, and Morton Keller, eds. The Encyclopedia of the United States Congress. Simon and Schuster (1994).