Birnbaum Women's Leadership Center

The BWLC provides opportunities for NYU Law students to build essential leadership skills not otherwise taught in the classroom. Our signature Fellowship program is open to all JD students, who apply to participate early in their 1L year. The program commences with a week-long January intensive named in recognition of BWLC co-founder Sara Moss ’74.

The BWLC is a hub for thought leadership and regularly hosts on-campus convenings and symposia. Pictured here: the Honorable Elena Kagan, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, in conversation with BWLC Faculty Director Melissa Murray; they discussed 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 Thurgood Marshall. Watch the recording

The BWLC at NYU Law is the proud home of the Marcy Syms Equality Initiative. Founded in 2021 as the ERA Project at Columbia Law School, the Marcy Syms Equality Initiative is widely known as a leader in the movement to develop innovative, transformative legal and policy strategies to advance sex-based equality.