Luke Milligan is a law professor at the University of Louisville.  An expert on criminal law and privacy, Milligan's written commentary has appeared in the Boston University Law Review, Cardozo Law Review, Emory Law Journal, and Washington & Lee Law Review, among others. His description of the interactions between federal judges and Congress, published by the Georgia Law Review, won the Helfat Prize for Research and Scholarship in 2011.  The UofL law alumni named him Professor of the Year in 2012.  

Professor Milligan was a litigator at Williams & Connolly in Washington, D.C.  His practice focused on white-collar criminal defense and complex civil litigation matters.  Before joining Williams & Connolly he served as law clerk to 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 in New Orleans.  Milligan is an honors graduate of Emory Law School, where he was articles editor of the Emory Law Journal.  He also worked on antitrust investigations at the U.S. Department of Justice and death penalty matters at the Carter Center.

In recent years Milligan has been a visiting professor at Emory Law School and a visitor-in-residence at the University of Turku (Finland) and the University of KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa).