Julie Murray is an Adjunct Professor of Law and co-teaches with Professor David Cole a seminar entitled Arguing Free Speech in the 21st Century.

Professor Murray has more than fifteen years of public interest litigation experience. She currently serves as co-director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s State Supreme Court Initiative, a team that litigates a wide range of civil rights and civil liberties issues in state courts around the country. Before coming to the ACLU, Professor Murray was a litigator at Planned Parenthood Federation of America, where she brought challenges to restrictions on reproductive health and defended advocates of abortion access from unconstitutional limitations on their speech. Professor Murray also served as a litigator with Public Citizen Litigation Group for many years, where she worked on a range of cases involving constitutional law, including commercial speech regulation. Earlier in her career, Professor Murray clerked for Judge Marsha Berzon on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and served as a Margaret Fund Fellow at the National Women’s Law Center.

In addition to her work at Georgetown, Professor Murray has served as a Visiting Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School, teaching a seminar entitled Litigating State Constitutional Rights, and as a Wasserstein Public Interest Advising Fellow at Harvard Law School. She received her law degree from Harvard Law School and her bachelor’s degree from the University of Kentucky.