Prof. Miccio is a nationally recognized expert on the law as it affects survivors of male intimate violence. She has written, lectured, litigated and testified, at Congressional and State Legislative hearings, on the issue of male intimate violence, women survivors and conceptions of state accountability. Miccio was the author of the NYS law that opened up the family and criminal courts to survivors of male intimate violence and one of the authors of the state's mandatory arrest law in domestic violence cases.  She has won numerous awards for her work on behalf of battered women-and for her teaching.  And she has been interviewed by the print and electronic media on such matters as hate crimes, violence against women, Miranda, the OJ Simpson, Kobe Bryant and Laci Peterson cases, to name a few.  At DU, Prof. Miccio teaches criminal law, criminal procedure and a seminar on domestic violence, and she was awarded the Hughes-Ruud Research Professorship for 2004-5.