Co-Director and Senior Research Fellow, Center on Modernity in Transition; Lecturing Fellow of Law, Duke Law School
- Lee Miller is a legal scholar and practitioner working at the intersection of climate resilience, food systems transformation, and health justice. He is advancing legal and policy strategies to hold food companies accountable for their role in driving chronic disease, while also reimagining the conditions that allow small-scale farmers to flourish. His current work explores how reconnecting urban and rural interests is essential to building a just, climate-resilient food future. Lee teaches at Duke Law School and chairs the board of the Academy of Food Law and Policy. His writing has appeared in the Yale Law Journal Forum, American Journal of Public Health, and Journal of Food Law and Policy, among others. He and his spouse live on a small agroecological farm outside Hillsborough, North Carolina, where they raise sheep, vegetables, and their two children.
