Professor Joslin teaches in the areas of Constitutional Law, Employment Discrimination, Family Law, and Sexuality, Gender, and the Law. Joslin is a leading expert in the areas of family and relationship recognition, with a particular focus on same-sex and unmarried couples. Professor Joslin’s publications have appeared or are forthcoming in Boston University Law Review, California Law Review, Columbia Law Review, Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, Harvard Law Review Forum, Iowa Law Review, NYU Law Review, Southern California Law Review, UCLA Law Review, and Yale Law Journal Forum, among other sources. She is a co-author of two popular textbooks — Sexuality, Gender, and the Law, with William N. Eskridge Jr. & Nan D. Hunter, and Modern Family Law, with D. Kelly Weisberg. Her commentary has appeared in the Washington Post, the LA Times, the Sacramento Bee, Slate, Verdict, and elsewhere.
Joslin is the recipient of numerous awards for her work. She is a two-time recipient (2010 & 2019) of the Dukeminier Award for her Articles Protecting Children(?) and Discrimination In and Out of Marriage. The Dukeminier Award is awarded annually to recognize the best legal scholarship on sexual orientation and gender identity law. Joslin’s Article Modernizing Divorce Jurisdiction won the 2011 AALS New Voices in Gender Studies Paper Competition. In 2024, Joslin received the Distinguished Scholarly Public Service Award from UC Davis. In 2023, Joslin was the recipient of the 2023 Distinguished Teaching Award. Professor Joslin served as the Reporter for the Uniform Parentage Act (2017), and she is an elected member of the American Law Institute.
Joslin graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where she served as an executive editor of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, and she received her undergraduate degree magna cum laude from Brown University.
Education
J.D., Harvard Law School (1998)
B.A., Brown University (1994)