Fall 2027 Fellowship Sponsorship, Women's Rights Project

About the role

The ACLU's Women's Rights Project invites rising third-year law students and recent law graduates to apply for a sponsorship opportunity such as Equal Justice Works to work with us as a Legal Fellow for up to two years beginning in Fall 2027. This is a hybrid role in the ACLU's National Office in New York, NY that has in-office requirements of two (2) days per week or eight (8) days per month. Since its founding by Ruth Bader Ginsburg in 1972, WRP has been a trailblazer in fighting for gender equity under law. We engage in systemic legal reform to ensure that everyone has the freedom to live, work, and learn free from stereotypes, harassment, and violence based on sex. Recent WRP work includes fighting the mass eviction crisis and other unfair housing practices that disproportionately lock out women, particularly Black women, from housing opportunities; challenging employment rules that penalize workers for their pregnancies or push them out of the paid workforce altogether; and fighting dress codes that perpetuate stereotypes and punish students and workers based on race and sex. Currently, WRP is preparing to challenge new and threatened federal measures that seek reversion to impermissible gender discrimination while also advancing our proactive and inclusive vision of gender justice where possible. Doing gender justice work as part of the broad civil liberties and civil rights agenda of the ACLU reflects the reality that women are part of other social change movements and that we must work together if we are to achieve a just society for all. Please include in your cover letter a brief proposal for a fellowship project that you would be excited to bring to WRP. We will review applications on a rolling basis, but priority consideration will be given to those who submit applications by June 15, 2026 . This position is part of a collective bargaining unit. It is represented by ACLU Staff United (ASU).