Stuart Miller (stuart@w-wlaw.com)
Counsel

Stuart Miller received his B.A. with honors in English from Oberlin College in 1973 and his J.D. from New York University in 1977. He is admitted to practice in California and New York. His areas of concentration include appeals and writs, administrative and regulatory law, and civil rights and land-use litigation.

Since 1992, Mr. Miller has been on the full-time and adjunct faculties of Western State University College of Law, where he has directed the appellate advocacy program and taught courses in administrative law, environmental law, real property, and civil procedure. He also has taught at several law schools in New York. Student appellate teams under his supervision have won the Bernard E. Witkin Award for Excellence in Appellate Advocacy, the California Academy of Appellate Lawyers Award for Brief Writing, and a special commendation from the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

From 1983 to 1992, Mr. Miller was Assistant Attorney General in the Environmental Protection Bureau of the New York State Department of Law, where he counseled and represented government agencies and officials in a wide variety of important cases. His litigation victories include the leading case in the United States on the liability of successor landowners for hazardous waste cleanups, the constitutional defense of many environmental and public-health statutes, the closure of the world's largest radium facility (which the EPA called "the most dangerous Superfund project ever"), and the lawsuits over the infamous Long Island "garbage barge."

Mr. Miller has published law review articles on regulatory taking and licensing issues. Since 1996, he has been the administrative law columnist for California's leading legal newspapers, the Los Angeles Daily Journal and San Francisco Daily Journal.