USD Knudson School of Law Welcomes New Assistant Professors
The University of South Dakota Knudson School of Law is welcoming two new assistant professors of law, Shirley Mays, J.D., and Robert Miller, J.D.
Mays joins the Knudson School of Law after working as a visiting professor of law at Nova Southeastern Shepard Broad College of Law. After graduating from Harvard Law School in 1987, Mays worked in the public finance area of an international law firm. Soon after, she clerked for the chief justice of the Ohio State Supreme Court.
In 1991, Mays started her law teaching career at Capital University Law School, where she served as an associate professor of law until 2010 and associate dean for academic affairs from 2005 to 2010. From 2010 to 2018, Mays served as dean and professor of law at the Arizona Summit Law School, spearheading the redesign of the predominant law school model.Mays also facilitated the creation and implementation of an experiential-based curriculum, which was named the most innovative law school curriculum by Pre-Law Magazine.
Miller joins the Knudson School of Law after practicing for the last nine years at Manier & Herod, P.C. in Nashville, Tennessee, where his practice focused on restructuring and insolvency matters. During the last two years, Miller was also an adjunct professor at the Nashville School of Law, where he taught business associations.
After graduating with honors from Emory University School of Law in Atlanta, Georgia, Miller served as the law clerk to the Hon. William L. Stocks at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Middle District of North Carolina. He has published extensively on insolvency and bankruptcy law topics with recent works appearing in the Kentucky Law Journal, the West Virginia Law Review and the American Bankruptcy Law Journal.
In 1991, Mays started her law teaching career at Capital University Law School, where she served as an associate professor of law until 2010 and associate dean for academic affairs from 2005 to 2010. From 2010 to 2018, Mays served as dean and professor of law at the Arizona Summit Law School, spearheading the redesign of the predominant law school model.Mays also facilitated the creation and implementation of an experiential-based curriculum, which was named the most innovative law school curriculum by Pre-Law Magazine.
Miller joins the Knudson School of Law after practicing for the last nine years at Manier & Herod, P.C. in Nashville, Tennessee, where his practice focused on restructuring and insolvency matters. During the last two years, Miller was also an adjunct professor at the Nashville School of Law, where he taught business associations.
After graduating with honors from Emory University School of Law in Atlanta, Georgia, Miller served as the law clerk to the Hon. William L. Stocks at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Middle District of North Carolina. He has published extensively on insolvency and bankruptcy law topics with recent works appearing in the Kentucky Law Journal, the West Virginia Law Review and the American Bankruptcy Law Journal.
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