BWLC Visiting Fellows-in-Residence, Academic Year 2025-26
The Birnbaum Women’s Leadership Center (BWLC) at NYU School of Law invites applications for Visiting Fellows-in-Residence for the 2025-26 academic year. Ideal candidates are legal scholars with sabbatical funding who will undertake research and writing, organize events, and otherwise collaborate on projects focused on gender equity and justice.
Visiting Fellows-in-Residence work directly with BWLC’s faculty director, executive director, staff, and students for a semester or full academic year. During that time, Visiting Fellows-in-Residence are provided with a shared on-campus office equipped with tech/support and access to Law School events, communication networks/listservs, libraries, etc.
Applicants should submit the following materials by March 31, 2025, via electronic mail to BWLCFellows@law.nyu.edu:
- current curriculum vitae
- writing sample
- brief description of proposed work/project to be conducted during the residency
- proposed time period of residency (i.e., one or two semesters)
About the Birnbaum Women’s Leadership Center: The BWLC serves as a crucial hub for thought leadership and influence on issues of gender equity. We work to ensure gender equity in public life and the law via three pillars of service: we provide top-notch leadership development opportunities for NYU Law students; we create dynamic public programming and offer a robust slate of live and virtual events; and we lend our voices and expertise to related advocacy and media initiatives. Please visit our website to learn more.
The BWLC is led by Faculty Director Melissa Murray, NYU Law’s Frederick I. and Grace Stokes Professor of Law, and Executive Director Jennifer Weiss-Wolf. Murray is a constitutional law scholar and expert in reproductive rights and justice. She is a co-host of Crooked Media’s Strict Scrutiny podcast, a legal analyst for MSNBC, and an author of The Trump Indictments: The Historic Charging Documents with Commentary (with Andrew Weissman). Weiss-Wolf is an author, columnist, and policy advocate; she leads strategy at Ms. Magazine. She joined the BWLC in 2022 after 12 years at the Brennan Center for Justice, where she served as vice president and the inaugural Women and Democracy Fellow. Please visit our leadership page to learn more about our full team, founders, and current and past Visiting Fellows-in-Residence.