Laurel E. Miller
Senior Rule of Law Advisor, Rule of Law Program
Rule of Law | Postconflict State-Building | Constitutional Development | International Law | War Crimes | Peace Negotiation
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Laurel E. Miller joined the USIP's Rule of Law program, one of the Centers of Innovation, in July 2003.
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 adviser to the U.S. special envoy for the Balkans and as senior adviser 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 Kosovo, 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 1998–99, she was an international affairs fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Miller received the State Department’s Superior Honor Award three times.
Prior to her government service, she practiced law 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. Earlier she was a Rotary Foundation graduate fellow in Delhi, India, and worked as a reporter at the Japan Times in Tokyo.
Miller received a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School, where she was an editor of the Law Review, and an A.B. from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
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