Birnbaum Womens Leadership Center

The BWLC provides opportunities for law students to build essential leadership skills not otherwise taught in the classroom, including through a signature Fellowship program. JD students apply and are selected early in their first year at NYU Law; the application is open to all 1Ls. The program commences with the Sara Moss Women’s Leadership Training Program, a week-long intensive named in recognition of BWLC cofounder Sara Moss ’74.

The BWLC proudly hosted the inaugural Sidney Shainwald Public Interest Lecture at NYU Law in September. The Honorable Elena Kagan, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, joined BWLC Faculty Director Melissa Murray to discuss topics such as women on the Supreme Court, the evolution of the shadow docket, judicial ethics, and Justice Kagan’s early experiences clerking for Justice Marshall. Watch the recording

We proudly welcome the ERA Project to the Birnbaum Women’s Leadership Center at NYU Law. Founded in 2021 at Columbia Law School, the ERA Project is widely known as a leader in the movement to develop innovative, transformative legal and policy strategies to advance sex-based equality. We are thrilled to be joined by Ting Ting Cheng, ERA Project Director, and to work together to catalyze the next chapter of influence and impact.