NYU School of Law’s Grunin Center for Law and Social Entrepreneurship is piloting a new program for the 2025–2026 academic year: the Legal Changemakers Incubator.
This initiative is designed to support a select cohort of LLM students as they undertake legal projects that address timely societal/environmental issues in sustainable development, impact investing, or social entrepreneurship – e.g., proposed reforms or analyses of issues (e.g., access to funding) in global health (e.g., vaccines), food security, education, conservation, or infrastructure development. The projects will be developed by teams of LLM students in partnership with seasoned legal professionals who will serve as mentors throughout the academic year.
This pilot program does not provide additional funding or academic credit to participating LLM students but creates opportunities for selected teams of LLM students to engage with seasoned legal professionals, the Grunin Center community, and the broader NYU Law community on projects of personal relevance with the potential to have real-world impact.
We welcome interest from all current NYU LLM students. To learn more, you may attend our Zoom information session on Wednesday, August 13, 2025, from 3:30 to 4:30 pm ET; join us at our Open House on Thursday, August 14, 2025, from 3:30 to 4:30 pm ET in Furman Hall, Room 330; or contact Jesse Gero, Senior Legal Fellow of the Grunin Center and Acting Director of the International Transactions Clinic, at jesse.gero@law.nyu.edu.
For more information, visit the Changemakers Incubator website.