Leila Murphy

Student Staff Editor

Leila Murphy is a Just Security Student Staff Editor and a JD candidate at NYU School of Law. At NYU, she is a staff editor with the NYU Law Review and a board member of the Defender Collective and Law Students for Economic Justice. Prior to law school, Leila taught as a Fulbright scholar in Tetouan, Morocco, and worked in immigrant services at a nonprofit in Framingham, MA. She spent her 1L summer clerking for Judge Eunice Lee at the 2nd Circuit and interning at Appellate Advocates. She graduated from Yale College in 2019 with a major in Ethics, Politics, and Economics and a concentration in Education Studies.