Melanie Goldberg

Melanie Goldberg Silver is an attorney currently clerking for the New York State Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department. She volunteers her free time for the Jewish community in helping formulate the connection between antisemitism and the BDS movement, and has presented this work before the US House of Representatives Subcommittee on Antisemitism. She has also been working with the Brandeis Center since 2013, first as their client, then as a law student advocate, and now as an attorney advisor, and is completing a legal piece entitled, “The Scarlet Letters: ‘Made in Israel’: How the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement against Israel Violates U.S. Antitrust Law,” which reflects this work as well. For this work and her other activism, she was recognized as one of the Jewish Week’s “36 under 36” in 2015.

Additionally, her work in the private sector has primarily focused on counterterrorism finance law, on which she has published with the National Security Law Journal of George Mason University Law School (Spring 2019), and the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University (July 2018). She received her JD from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in 2017, where she was recognized as a merit and public service scholar.