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Issa Kohler-Hausmann is a Professor of Law at Yale Law School and an Associate Professor of Sociology. She obtained her Ph.D. in Sociology from New York University in 2014 and a J.D. from Yale Law School in 2008. Her primary research interests include Criminal Law, Sociology of Law, Empirical Legal Studies, and Socio-Legal Theory. Kohler-Hausmann is also the author of the influential book 'Misdemeanorland: Criminal Courts, Social Control, and the Age of Broken Windows Policing,' published by Princeton University Press in 2018, which examines New York City’s lower criminal courts. She has received several prestigious awards for her publications, including the Herbert Jacob Book Prize from the Law and Society Association in 2019. Kohler-Hausmann’s work has appeared in leading journals such as the Stanford Law Review and the American Journal of Sociology. She has been a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation and continues to engage in pro bono legal practice while exploring issues related to discrimination and the legal implications of social categories in her current research projects.
Department of Law offers the Master of Laws (LL.M.) program.