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Joshua Civin rejoined LDF as an Assistant Counsel in 2009, after serving as an Arthur Liman Public Interest Fellow in 2004-2005 and as an intern during law school. Mr. Civin actively participates in LDF's appellate and Supreme Court practice, while maintaining a trial-level litigation docket in matters involving educational equity and economic justice.
Prior to rejoining LDF, Mr. Civin worked for two years at Hogan & Hartson, LLP, where he represented public school districts, colleges, and universities in federal and state courts and before government agencies. Mr. Civin served as a law clerk to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the U.S. Supreme Court and to Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
He graduated summa cum laude from Yale University, studied history at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, and received a J.D. from Yale Law School. From 1994 through 1997, Mr. Civin represented the First Ward on New Haven, Connecticut's Board of Aldermen, where he sponsored legislation to reform municipal homeless policy and ensure livable wages for subcontracted city workers.