Britney Wilson

Britney Wilson is a Professor of Law and the Director of the Civil Rights and Disability Justice Clinic at New York Law School (NYLS). Her legal work focuses on federal civil rights litigation. Before NYLS, Professor Wilson was a staff attorney at the National Center for Law and Economic Justice (NCLEJ) and had legal fellowships at the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and in the Racial Justice Program at the national American Civil Liberties Union. In all her roles, she has litigated a wide variety of civil rights issues, including discriminatory policing, the criminalization of poverty, the school-to-prison pipeline, abusive immigration detention practices, and disability discrimination in healthcare. Born with Cerebral Palsy, Professor Wilson has written and spoken extensively about the intersection of race and disability. Her work has been featured in various outlets, including the UCLA Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, The Nation Magazine, and This Americ