About Douglas George
Douglas George NeJaime is the Anne Urowsky Professor of Law and Counselor to the Dean at Yale Law School in New Haven, Connecticut. He joined the Yale faculty in 2017, teaching courses in family law, legal ethics, and constitutional law. Prior to Yale, NeJaime was a Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law. He also served as Faculty Director of the Williams Institute, a research institute focusing on sexual orientation and gender identity law and public policy. He has also taught at UC Irvine School of Law and Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, and was a Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. NeJaime earned his Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School in 2003, graduating cum laude.
He also holds an A.B. in American Civilization from Brown University, where he graduated magna cum laude in 2000. At Harvard, he was a Senior Editor of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review and received the Best Brief Award in the First-Year Ames Moot Court Competition. At Brown, he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and received the Gaston Prize in American Civilization for the best thesis. In addition to his teaching, NeJaime has been actively involved in legal scholarship and reform. He co-authored three casebooks: "Ethical Lawyering: Legal and Professional Responsibilities in the Practice of Law" with Paul Hayden; "Family Law in a Changing America" with Ralph Richard Banks, Joanna Grossman.
Suzanne Kim; and "Cases and Materials on Sexuality, Gender Identity, and the Law" with Carlos Ball, Jane Schacter, and William Rubenstein. His scholarly work has been recognized with the Dukeminier Award three times, and he received the YLW Faculty Excellence Award at Yale Law School. In 2024, he was chosen by the graduating class to be the Yale Law School commencement speaker. NeJaime has been a leader in national efforts to reform parentage laws to accommodate families with nonbiological parent-child relationships, including those formed by same-sex couples and through assisted reproduction. He led the effort to pass the Connecticut Parentage Act, Public Act 21-15, which passed with near-unanimous support in both chambers of the legislature and was signed by Governor Ned Lamont in 2021. He has also been involved in national efforts to reform parentage laws to accommodate families with nonbiological parent-child relationships, including those formed by same-sex couples and through assisted reproduction.
NeJaime is admitted to practice law in California, where he holds State, and in Connecticut. He is a member of the Connecticut State Bar and has been involved in various professional associations, including the Uniform Law Commission's Enactment Committee for the Uniform Parentage Act. He has contributed to the Connecticut Bar Association's Continuing Legal Education programs, including a session on the Connecticut Parentage Act and its impact on LGBTQ clients. He has also been a contributor to Jotwell Family Law — NeJaime resides in New Haven, Connecticut, with his husband and their two-year-old son.
