LEE MILLER
Senior Research Fellow

Lee Miller joined COMIT in 2023 as a Senior Research Fellow leading a new dimension of COMIT’s rural transformation work focused on North Carolina. He is also lecturing fellow at Duke Law School, teaching on Food, Agriculture, and the Environment: Law and Policy, and until joining COMIT also served as an attorney in the Duke Environmental Law and Policy Clinic. Before returning to Duke in 2019, Miller amassed expertise in environmental advocacy, food and agriculture law, policy innovation, and coalition-building in U.S. food and farm movements. He has championed causes like climate change resilience, regenerative agriculture, environmental justice, and economic justice for all food system participants. At the Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic, Miller coordinated a multi-law school farm bill research project promoting agricultural sustainability and justice.

He has published in prominent journals, serves as Chair of the Academy of Food Law and Policy, and sits on the Board of Advisors for the national Food Law Student Network. He holds a J.D. from Yale Law School and a B.S. in economics and MEM from Duke. He lives on a small farm outside Hillsborough, NC, where he and his spouse tend to sheep, bees, and vegetables.