Lee Miller is a Senior Lecturing Fellow at Duke Law School, where he teaches food systems law and policy. He previously served for many years as a staff attorney in Duke’s Environmental Law and Policy Clinic. His work explores industry accountability for diet-related disease, climate mitigation and resilience through regenerative agriculture, and the development of food and agricultural systems that support thriving rural communities.
Miller is also a Senior Fellow at the Center on Modernity in Transition and co-editor of Development in Transition: Rethinking Rural Futures, a 2026 volume bringing together scholars and practitioners working beyond conventional approaches to rural change.
Before joining Duke, Miller led a Farm Bill research program at Harvard Law School’s Food Law and Policy Clinic. He earned his J.D. from Yale Law School and his MEM from Duke’s Nicholas School of the Environment. He serves on the boards of the Academy of Food Law and Policy and the Center for Environmental Farming Systems at North Carolina State University. He was a member of the Aspen Institute’s 2025 class of Food Leaders Fellows. Miller and his spouse steward a small, diversified farm in Hillsborough, North Carolina.
