J.D., Harvard Law School, 1997
B.A., Columbia University, 1994
Miriam Gohara is Deputy Dean for Experiential Education and a clinical professor of law at Yale Law School. She founded the Challenging Mass Incarceration Clinic, which represents clients in sentencing and postconviction cases. Before joining the Law School faculty, Professor Gohara spent 16 years representing death-sentenced clients in post-conviction litigation, first as assistant counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF) and then as a specially designated federal public defender with the Federal Capital Habeas Project. Professor Gohara has litigated cases in state and federal courts around the United States, including the United States Supreme Court.
Professor Gohara teaches and writes about capital and non-capital sentencing, incarceration, and the historical and social forces implicated in culpability and punishment.
Professor Gohara is a member of the board of trustees of the Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem and the Atlantic Center for Capital Representation. She is a graduate of Harvard Law School and Columbia University.
