Robert W. Miller

Prof. Robert W. Miller is an assistant professor of law at the University of South Dakota Knudson Law School in Vermillion, S.D., and teaches debtor/creditor rights, secured transactions, financial institutions and other related courses. His current research interests include the restructuring of heavily regulated entities (such as institutions of higher education and hydrocarbon producers) and the related conflicts between federal insolvency law and substantive state/federal law, and debtor-in-possession financing and exit financing in chapter 11 cases. Prof. Miller previously was a partner in the corporate restructuring department of Manier & Herod, P.C. in Nashville, Tenn., where his practice focused on the representation of insurance companies in large national and international insolvency matters, as well as chapter 11 trustees and unsecured creditors’ committees in regional cases. He also taught a business associations class at the Nashville School of Law. Prior to practicing law, Prof. Miller clerked for Hon. William L. Stocks of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Middle District of North Carolina. He received his J.D. from Emory University School of Law.