She has a SJD from Harvard Law School, an MA from Paris II, Pantheon-Assas, and an LLB from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Professor Tsoukala has previously taught at the University of Texas School of Law (Emerging Scholars Program), at Harvard Law School, where she held the Byse Fellowship, and at Harvard College, where she was a Teaching Fellow. Her research interests focus on the position of family law in the political economy of western liberal states, with a special emphasis on the gendered character of the legal regulation of the family and the market. Her work is interdisciplinary, combining comparative, legal historical, and social theoretical perspectives.