Michael Boucai is a professor at SUNY Buffalo School of Law, where he teaches courses on criminal law, family law, gender and sexuality, and reproduction. His scholarship has examined the legal history of the right to marry, the social and cultural history of the gay closet, and LGBTQ-movement efforts to access and alter the institutions of marriage and parenthood. Before joining the Buffalo law faculty, Professor Boucai served as the Sears Law Teaching Fellow at the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law and clerked for the Honorable Rosemary Barkett on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. He holds a B.A. in history from Yale, a J.D. from Georgetown, and an M.Phil. in history from Cambridge.