Constitutional Law. She holds a doctorate from Harvard Law School (SJD 2006) and other degrees from Columbia Law School (LLM 1998), University of California Davis (J.D. 1992) and University of California Berkeley (BA 1988). She has served as law clerk in United States federal courts (for Judge Edward Dean Price, U.S. District Court for Eastern District of California in 1993, and as the death penalty law clerk for the Court of Appeals from 1994-1997).