Mila Sohoni, Professor of Law and the John A. Wilson Distinguished Faculty Scholar, focuses her scholarship on civil procedure, administrative law, federal courts, and legislation.

Prior to joining SLS, she was a professor at the University of San Diego School of Law, where she received several awards for her teaching and scholarship. Her students selected her for the 2018 and 2023 Thorsnes Prize for Excellence in Teaching and in 2021-2022 she was awarded a USD University Professorship for outstanding contributions in teaching and research. In 2019, she was named the Herzog Endowed Scholar for excellence in scholarship and teaching.

Sohoni was appointed a Public Member of the Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS) in 2022. She served as the Chair of the AALS Section on Administrative Law in 2022-2023, and she is a contributor to the Administrative Law section of JOTWELL.

Sohoni’s scholarship has appeared in many leading journals of law, including the Yale Law Journal, the Harvard Law Review, the Virginia Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, and the Duke Law Journal. Her article “The Lost History of the ‘Universal’ Injunction,” 133 Harvard L. Rev. 920 (2020) was a co-winner of the American Constitution Society’s 2020 Richard D. Cudahy Writing Competition on Regulatory and Administrative Law. “Crackdowns,” 103 Virginia L. Rev. 31 (2017) received the honorable mention in the 2017 Scholarly Papers Competition sponsored by the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) and was also awarded the AALS Section on Criminal Justice’s Junior Scholar Award for 2017. “The Power to Privilege,” 163 U. Penn. L. Rev. 487 (2015) was selected for presentation at the 2014 Harvard/Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum.

After graduating cum laude from Harvard Law School, where she served as book reviews chair and an articles committee member for the Harvard Law Review, Sohoni served as a law clerk to the Honorable Judith W. Rogers of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. She practiced law at Jenner & Block LLP in New York and Washington, DC, and was an acting assistant professor of lawyering at New York University School of Law.

Before attending law school, Sohoni spent two years as a science and technology correspondent for The Economist in New York and in London. She was a Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholar at Cambridge University, where she received her MPhil with distinction (first class) in the history and philosophy of science. She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College with a degree in chemistry.