University of Utah : S.J. Quinney College of Law

Clifford J. Rosky

Professor Rosky is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Utah’s S.J. Quinney College of Law.  Before joining the faculty, he served as a research fellow for the Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law & Public Policy at the UCLA School of Law. 

Rosky received his B.A. from Amherst College with honors in Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought.  He received his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he served as the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities and the Irving S. Ribicoff Postgraduate Research Fellow.  His postgraduate research was published in the Connecticut Law Review.

After graduating from law school, Professor Rosky served as a law clerk for the Honorable Robert D. Sack on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and he worked as an associate at the law firms of Covington & Burling and Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, where he focused on criminal, appellate, and pro bono matters.  While at Akin Gump, he was profiled in Corporate Board Member magazine and recognized as the San Francisco Pro Bono Associate of the Year for his representation of Korean sex trafficking victims in connection with criminal, immigration, and administrative proceedings.

While at the Williams Institute, Rosky submitted an amicus brief to the California Supreme Court in the successful same-sex marriage appeal, published an op-ed on same-sex marriage in the Los Angeles Daily Journal, developed teaching materials for a casebook on sexual orientation and law, co-authored over 30 demographic reports on lesbian, gay, and bisexual populations in the United States, and developed judicial training courses on sexual orientation and law.  Rosky continues to serve the Williams Institute as a Senior Research Fellow by conducting training courses at statewide judicial conferences.

Professor Rosky teaches courses on criminal law, family law, and sexuality, gender and law.  He is a member of Equality Utah's Legal Panel, and the 2010 Law & Society Association Programs Committee.  At the law school, he serves as the faculty advisor for OUTLaws, an organization of LGBT students and allies, and the faculty supervisor for the LGBT Research and Advocacy Clinic.

Professor Rosky is writing a series of articles on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered parenthood.  The first of these articles, Like Father, Like Son: Homosexuality, Parenthood, and the Gender of Homophobia, was published in the Yale Journal of Law & Feminism this year.

Professor Rosky's SSRN page