Sabrina Charles

Sabrina Charles is a Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School and a doctoral candidate in Sociology at New York University.

Sabrina’s primary research interests are in the sociology of punishment, the administrative state, social theory, and the sociology of legal knowledge. Sabrina, whose dissertation research is in immigration court, recently received a National Institute of Social Sciences Dissertation Grant to conduct in-depth interviews with people who have undergone or are undergoing immigration court proceedings. Sabrina’s other research explores time and state social control and how incarcerated legal experts (“jailhouse lawyers”) access and create legal expertise.

Sabrina received her JD from Yale Law School, where she was Executive Editor of the Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics, an Editor of The Yale Law Journal, and an Editor of the Yale Journal on Regulation. She received her MPA from the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government and her MPhil in Sociology from New York University. She received her BA from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Phi Beta Kappa, with high honors and distinction.

Sabrina clerked for the Honorable Barrington D. Parker of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and practiced at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz and Ropes & Gray LLP. She is licensed to practice law in New York and represents people in removal proceedings pro bono. Her hobbies include playing the piano and backcountry backpacking. Sabrina also loves traveling.