About Alice M.
Alice M. Miller built a career at the intersection of law, public health and international human rights. She earned a B.A. in social studies from Harvard University in 1979 and completed her J.D. at the University of Washington School of Law in 1985. Those academic foundations set the stage for a path that moved between advocacy and the academy.
Her early work combined grassroots organizing and policy work. In 1991 she served as director of an anti-death-penalty program at Amnesty International. Two years later she joined the Women’s Rights Advocacy Project at the International Human Rights Law Group, later Global Rights. Those roles involved casework, policy research and collaborative advocacy across national boundaries.
Miller brought that field experience into the classroom. In 1994 she taught as adjunct faculty at American University’s Washington College of Law. By 1998 she had assumed a professorship in international affairs, concentrating on human rights and public health at Columbia University. Her teaching and scholarship at Columbia wove together legal analysis and public health perspectives, asking how law shapes health outcomes across borders.
Her academic appointments continued on the West Coast and back East. She was lecturer in residence at UC Berkeley School of Law in 2008. In 2012 she served as assistant clinical professor at the Yale School of Public Health. The following year she held an adjunct associate professorship at Yale Law School. Those positions reflected a pattern: alternating intensive practice or advocacy projects with periods devoted to teaching and mentoring students.
Miller’s memberships underscore the dual strands of her work. She holds membership in the Washington State Bar and has been active in the American Public Health Association since 1999. She has belonged to the American Society of International Law since 1997. These affiliations have supported collaborations with clinicians, scholars and practitioners in human rights and health policy.
Across three decades she has balanced litigation-adjacent advocacy, policy work and legal education. Her portfolio includes anti–death-penalty organizing, women’s rights projects, international human rights litigation support and courses that bridge health law and international affairs. Students and colleagues describe her as someone who foregrounds practical problem-solving in complex legal settings.
She currently practices in Washington, where her work centers on international human rights, public health law and women’s rights advocacy.
