Courtney G. Joslin

Acting Professor of Law

Courtney Joslin received her undergraduate degree from Brown University and her law degree from Harvard Law School, where she was an executive editor of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review. Prior to joining the faculty at UC Davis, Professor Joslin served as an attorney at the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR), where she litigated cases on behalf of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people and their families. Professor Joslin was an adjunct professor at Boalt Hall School of Law and at Santa Clara University School of Law. Professor Joslin's areas of interest include family and relationship recognition, particularly focusing on same-sex and nonmarital couples.

Career Highlights

National Center for Lesbian Rights, New Voices Fellow 2000-2002, Staff Attorney 2002-2005,

Senior Staff Attorney, 2005-2006

Law Clerk, the Honorable Maxine M. Chesney, U.S. District Court, N.D. Cal., 1999-2000

Law Clerk, the Honorable Victoria Lederberg, Rhode Island Supreme Court, 1998-1999

Fellow, American Bar Foundation

Co-Chair, Committee on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity,

ABA Section of Individual Rights and Responsibilities, 2002 – present

Chair, Committee on Alternative Families, ABA Section of Family Law, 2006 – present

Education

J.D., magna cum laude, Harvard Law School, 1998

B.A., magna cum laude, Brown University, 1994