Luke Milligan

Luke M. Milligan is a professor of law at the University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law and director of its Ordered Liberty Program. Tenured since 2015, he has been named Professor of the Year and received the Helfat Prize for Legal Scholarship. He teaches constitutional law, criminal law, criminal procedure and jurisprudence.

Milligan’s research centers on criminal law and constitutional law, with articles published in the Boston University Law Review, Emory Law Journal, Georgia Law Review and Hastings Law Journal. His work on Fourth Amendment search-and-seizure law has informed recent amicus briefs to the U.S. Supreme Court. In 2019, he co-founded the Ordered Liberty Program with Professor Justin Walker, promoting natural rights, federalism and separation of powers through fellowships, speaker series and symposia.

Before academia, Milligan practiced white-collar criminal defense at Williams & Connolly in Washington, D.C. He clerked for Judge Edith Brown Clement of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and Judge Martin L.C. Feldman of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. He earned his J.D. with honors from Emory University School of Law, where he was articles editor of the law review, and his B.S.B. in economics from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.