Caitlin Millat

Caitlin Millat’s scholarship focuses on education law and policy, family law, gender and the law, and children and the law, with a particular focus on the ways in which public and private institutions allocate power and entrench social hierarchy. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in the Georgetown Law Journal, North Carolina Law Review, and NYU Law Review Online. 

Caitlin received her J.D. cum laude from New York University School of Law, where she was an editor for the Moot Court Board and upon graduation earned the Daniel G. Collins Prize for excellence in contract law. Before joining the Climenko program, Caitlin clerked for Judge Norman H. Stahl of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and Judge Victor A. Bolden of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut. Prior to clerking, Caitlin was an associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore, where her practice focused on general commercial litigation. 

Caitlin holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism and English cum laude from New York University and a Masters of Science in Education from Hunter College, with a focus in childhood education. Before beginning her legal studies, Caitlin worked as a teacher and an academic dean at an elementary school in Brooklyn, New York.