Sonia Mittal, former federal prosecutor, will discuss how her background as a political scientist informs her litigation work in moments of constitutional crisis.

Sonia Mittal is a clinical lecturer in law and associate research scholar in law at Yale Law School, where she is a co-teacher for the Peter Gruber Rule of Law Clinic. The Peter Gruber Rule of Law Clinic conducts and supports litigation, advocacy, and public awareness at the local, state, national, and international levels about rule of law threats, including in 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.

Mittal previously served as senior counsel and assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, where she helped oversee one of the largest Department of Justice investigations in history. She also served as a trial attorney in the National Criminal Enforcement Section of the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division, where she brought the first charges in the Department’s investigation into criminal price-fixing in the generic pharmaceutical industry. That investigation resulted in top executives pleading to felony price-fixing charges, charges against or resolutions with seven pharmaceutical companies, and the largest criminal penalty for a domestic cartel.

Mittal clerked for Judge Denise L. Cote in the District Court for the Southern District of New York and Chief Judge Robert A. Katzmann in the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. She studies democratic failure here and abroad and her academic work has been published in the Harvard Law & Policy Review; Journal of Law, Economics & Organization; Northwestern Law Review; Stanford Law Review Online; and the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law; among other publications. She earned a B.A. and Ph.D. from Stanford University and a J.D. from Yale Law School. 

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