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Miriam Gohara is a Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Jerome N. Frank Legal Services Organization at Yale Law School. She holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a B.A. from Columbia University. Her work focuses on capital and non-capital sentencing, incarceration reform, and the historical/social forces influencing culpability and punishment.
Professor Gohara previously served at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and as a federal public defender, leading initiatives like the Mississippi Gideon Project to improve indigent defense systems. She teaches in clinics addressing mass incarceration and criminal justice advocacy, including the Challenging Mass Incarceration Clinic and Criminal Justice Advocacy Clinic. In 2013, she served as a visiting clinical professor at Columbia Law School.
Her research includes evaluating Connecticut's T.R.U.E. prison program, modeled after German rehabilitation systems, which emphasizes trauma healing and mentorship for incarcerated individuals. She frequently comments on death penalty policies, commutation reforms, and domestic violence legislation. She sits on the board of the Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem.
