Professor Mary Joe Frug Grant

Every year the Women's Law Caucus raises funds for the Mary Joe Frug Grant. The grant was established to further the work of Professor Mary Joe Frug by providing a stipend for two+ students at New England Law | Boston who will devote their summer to improving the lives of women.


This grant is open to ALL STUDENTS. It provides funding for two+ students to work this summer in an area that particularly effects women. Applications can be found on WLC Twen page along with the Mary Joe Frug Manifesto. Applications are due to the SBA mailbox/WLC mailbox in the SBA office on Friday March 26. 

Professor Frug was a dedicated, charismatic teacher and mentor, she joined the faculty in 1981, after holding similar positions at Villanova, Boston University, and Columbia. Frug was a pioneer in critical feminist legal analysis, authored a case book Women and the Law, and was instrumental in establishing a course on domestic violence, one of the first in the country. While on a leave from the school in 1991, she was murdered by an unknown assailant near her Cambridge home.