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.

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

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

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

Gender Equity for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Students, in HANDBOOK FOR ACHIEVING GENDER EQUITY THROUGH Education (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.) (2007) (co-author with Eliza Byard, Sean Fischer, and Joseph Kosciw)

The Legal Parentage of Children Born to Same-Sex Couples: Developments in the Law, 39 FAMILY LAW QUARTERLY 683 (Fall 2005)

Protection for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Employees Under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, 31-SUMMER HUMAN RIGHTS 14 (Summer 2004)

A White Paper: An Analysis of the Law Regarding Same-Sex Marriage, Civil Unions, and Domestic Partnership, 38 FAMILY LAW QUARTERLY 339 (Summer 2004) (co-editor with Jeff Atkinson and contributing author)

THE RIGHTS OF LESBIANS, GAY MEN, BISEXUALS, AND TRANSGENDER PEOPLE: AN AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION HANDBOOK (4th Ed., Jan. 2004) (co-author with Nan D. Hunter and Sharon M. McGowan)

Model Second Parent Adoption Brief, 7 THE MICHIGAN CHILD WELFARE LAW JOURNAL 24 (2003) (co-author with Jay Kaplan)

Recognizing a Cause of Action Under Title IX for Student-Student Sexual Harassment, 34 HARVARD CIVIL RIGHTS-CIVIL LIBERTIES LAW REVIEW 201 (1999)

Recent Development, Equal Protection and Anti-Gay Legislation: Dismantling the Legacy of Bowers v. Hardwick -- Romer v. Evans, 116 S. Ct. 1620 (1996), 32 HARVARD CIVIL RIGHTS-CIVIL LIBERTIES LAW REVIEW 225 (1997)