NEW YORK, July 11, 2006 –  Pace Law School is proud to announce that Professor Jeffrey G. Miller has been named the new Vice Dean for Academic Affairs. He succeeds Associate Dean Michelle S. Simon, who held the post for five years.

Professor Miller joined the Pace faculty in 1987. He teaches torts, constitutional law, criminal law/legal writing, and over a dozen environmental law courses.

Dean Stephen J. Friedman said: “I am delighted that Professor Jeffrey Miller has accepted my invitation to become vice dean with broad responsibility for academic affairs. He brings a wealth of management expertise from his years in the Justice Department, broad experience as a member of the Pace Law School faculty, and a commitment to the highest standards of academic performance, both in the classroom and in scholarly work.”

Professor Miller began his legal career in the late 1960s as an associate in a Boston law firm, practicing business and finance law. In the early 1970s, he joined the new Environmental Protection Agency in its Boston regional office as an enforcement official. He later moved to the EPA’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., to head its water pollution permitting and enforcement program, to begin its hazardous waste enforcement program, and ultimately to head its national enforcement program. After a decade at the EPA, he became a partner in a Washington, D.C., law firm, practicing environmental law and representing corporate, nonprofit, and governmental clients.

He has lectured, taught, and consulted on environmental law throughout the country and in half a dozen foreign countries. Professor Miller is the author of several books, chapters, and articles on environmental issues, hazardous waste, and pollution.

Professor Miller received a BA degree from Princeton University and an LL.B. from Harvard University.

Founded in 1976, Pace University School of Law has nearly 5,000 alumni/ae throughout the country. It offers full- and part-time day and evening JD programs on its White Plains, N.Y., campus. The School also offers the Master of Laws in Environmental Law and in Comparative Legal Studies. The School, which has one of the nation's top-rated environmental law programs, also offers the SJD program in that field. The School of Law is part of a comprehensive, independent and diversified University with campuses in New York City and Westchester County. www.law.pace.edu 

Pace is a comprehensive, independent university with campuses in New York City, Pleasantville and White Plains, N.Y., and a Hudson Valley Center at Stewart International Airport in New Windsor, N.Y. More than 14,000 students are enrolled in undergraduate, graduate and professional degree programs in the Dyson College of Arts and Sciences, Lubin School of Business, School of Computer Science and Information Systems, School of Education, Lienhard School of Nursing and Pace Law School. www.pace.edu