Speaker Profile
Melissa Murray
Frederick I. and Grace Stokes Professor of Law, NYU School of Law
Melissa Murray is a Frederick I. and Grace Stokes Professor of Law at the NYU School of Law and Faculty Director of the Birnbaum Women's Leadership Network. She teaches courses on family law, constitutional law, criminal law, reproductive rights and justice, and feminist legal theory. She is a co-author of “Cases and Materials on Reproductive Rights and Justice." A member of the American Law Institute, in 2017, Murray was appointed to the ACS board of directors. Murray received her J.D. from Yale Law School and was a NAACP-LDF/Shearman & Sterling Scholar. She clerked for Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, then of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
