Sonia Mittal is a clinical lecturer in law and associate research scholar in law at Yale Law School, where she teaches the Peter Gruber Rule of Law Clinic. The Rule of Law Clinic advances the rule of law here and abroad through strategic litigation, advocacy, and public awareness initiatives, and it has filed briefs in Learning Resources Inc. v. Trump, Trump v. Slaughter, 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, among other cases.
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 its 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 in top executive pleas 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 2nd Circuit. She studies constitutional failure here and abroad. 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 has also previously served as amici in cases implicating rule of law issues. She earned a B.A. and Ph.D. from Stanford University and a J.D. from Yale Law School.
