Kate Mogulescu

Kate Mogulescu is a Clinical Professor at Brooklyn Law School and Director of the Criminal Defense & Advocacy Clinic, which she established in 2017. Her work focuses on gender, sentencing, and reentry issues in the criminal legal system.

• Education: B.A. from SUNY Binghamton, J.D. from Yale Law School

Research interests include gender-based violence, intimate partner abuse, sex work, and human trafficking. Through the Survivors Justice Project, she advocates for survivors criminalized and incarcerated due to their experiences.

Her scholarship, published in journals like University of Miami Law Review Caveat and Anti-Trafficking Review, critiques carceral approaches to violence and harm. She has testified before the UN Human Rights Committee and trained legal professionals nationwide.

Key article themes include criminal justice reform, gendered policing, survivor criminalization, and policy alignment between anti-trafficking efforts and broader social justice movements.

She founded the Exploitation Intervention Project (2011) and leads the Survivor Reentry Project, a national initiative for post-conviction advocacy.