Jessica Miles joined the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University in 2023.
Professor Miles previously served on the faculty of Seton Hall University School of Law where directed the Family Law Clinic and taught Evidence, Domestic Violence Law, Family Law, Persuasion & Advocacy, Torts, and Adoption Law. She was voted Professor of the Year by the Seton Hall Law student body in 2022 and 2017. In addition, she was selected as Seton Hall University Teacher of the Year in 2020.
Professor Miles’s scholarship focuses on legal issues related to domestic violence and has been published in the Cardozo Law Review, University of Miami Law Review, and Thomson Reuters' Women and the Law.
Prior to entering academia, Professor Miles gained practice experience as a public interest lawyer focusing on domestic violence and family law. She represented indigent clients with nonprofit organizations in Florida, Maryland, and Pennsylvania as well as with the Committee for Public Counsel Services in Massachusetts.
View all of Professor Miles’s publications on her CV (PDF).”
Domestic Violence Law, Family Law
Growing up in Vermont, Professor Jessica Miles’s family struggled financially. “From a young age, I was always very concerned with issues related to poverty and income inequality. It spurred my interest in government and politics. By the time I was a teenager, I was actively working on political campaigns.”
The Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University is pleased to announce that Jessica Miles will join its faculty as a tenure-track Associate Professor of Law.