Melissa Murray

Melissa Murray is the Frederick I. and Grace Stokes Professor of Law Faculty and the director of the Birnbaum Women's Leadership Center at New York University School of Law, where she teaches constitutional law. She previously served as the Alexander F. and May T. Morrison Professor of Law and interim dean of Berkeley Law. She is a cohost of the podcast Strict Scrutiny and a regular commentator on MSNBC. Murray has written for a range of legal and lay publications, including the Harvard Law...See more

Melissa Murray is the Frederick I. and Grace Stokes Professor of Law Faculty and the director of the Birnbaum Women's Leadership Center at New York University School of Law, where she teaches constitutional law. She previously served as the Alexander F. and May T. Morrison Professor of Law and interim dean of Berkeley Law. She is a cohost of the podcast Strict Scrutiny and a regular commentator on MSNBC. Murray has written for a range of legal and lay publications, including the Harvard Law Review, the Yale Law Journal, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Newsweek, and the Nation, and offered commentary for numerous media outlets, including NPR, CNN, ABC, and PBS. Murray clerked for Sonia Sotomayor, then a judge of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and Stefan Underhill of the US District Court for the District of Connecticut. See less