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Sonia Mittal is a Clinical Lecturer in Law and Associate Research Scholar in Law at Yale Law School, Yale University, where she co-teaches the Peter Gruber Rule of Law Clinic. The clinic conducts litigation and advocacy on rule of law threats across local, state, national, and international levels, including landmark cases such as President and Fellows of Harvard College v. U.S Department of Homeland Security, National Treasury Employees Union v. Russell Vought, and Perkins Coie LLP v. U.S. Department of Justice.
Her educational background includes:
- J.D. from Yale Law School (2013)
- Ph.D. from Stanford University (2010)
- B.A. from Stanford University (2004)
Mittal's research critically examines democratic failure domestically and globally, focusing on institutional erosion and legal safeguards. Her practical work intersects with constitutional challenges and corporate accountability, notably through her leadership in the Department of Justice's antitrust investigation that secured felony pleas from pharmaceutical executives and record penalties for price-fixing cartels. This dual academic-practitioner perspective informs her clinic's real-world impact on democratic resilience.
Prior to Yale, she served as senior counsel and assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, overseeing major DOJ investigations, and as a trial attorney in the Antitrust Division. She clerked for Judge Denise L. Cote (SDNY) and Chief Judge Robert A. Katzmann (Second Circuit).
Her scholarly contributions appear in the Harvard Law & Policy Review, Journal of Law, Economics & Organization, Northwestern Law Review, Stanford Law Review Online, and University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, addressing systemic legal vulnerabilities.
Mittal actively supervises students in the Peter Gruber Rule of Law Clinic, guiding litigation strategies and public awareness campaigns that bridge classroom theory with urgent democratic challenges.
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