Laurel E. Miller
Alumni Achievement Award

Laurel Miller is currently an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown Law Center, and an independent analyst focusing on constitutional issues and role of law development in countries emerging from conflict. From 2003 to 2006, she was a Senior Rule of Law Advisor at the United States Institute of Peace. Previously, she served at the U.S. Department of State as Deputy to the Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues, and earlier as Senior Advisor to the U.S> Special Envoy for the Balkans and as Senior Advisor to the Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs.

Miller was the deputy U.S. negotiator in talks that culminated in a peace agreement for Macedonia in 2001. She was the U.S. official most closely involved in negotiations leading to adoption of a provisional constitution for Kosevo, and she was a member of the U.S. delegation at the Dayton Peace Conference for Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Miller has also served as Director for Inter-American Affairs at the National Security Council, focusing on Mexico and the Caribbean. In 1998-1999, she was an International Affairs Fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations. Miller received the State Department’s Superior Honor Award three times.

Prior to her government service, she practiced alw with the firm of Covington and Burling in Washington, D.C. and Brussels, following a clerkship with a federal judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She earlier was a Rotary Foundation Graduate Fellow in Delhi, India, and worked as a reporter at the Japan Times in Tokyo. Miller received her J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School, where she was an editor of the Law Review, and her A.B. from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

Laurel served as CASC State President in 1981-82 as well as Region 14 (Los Angeles) President from 1980-81.