He majored in political science and economics and graduated summa cum laude in 1990 as a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
He worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston until 1993 before starting a Ph.D. at the University of Chicago, where he wrote on the economics of crime under Gary Becker.
He subsequently worked as a law clerk to Judge Jay Bybee on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Since 2013, Miles has been the Clifford R. Musser Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School,[1] a title previously held by William Landes and, before him, Nobel laureate and former Chicago professor Ronald Coase.
[4] He co-teaches a seminar that discusses canonical ideas in American legal thought.