Joy L. Delman

B.A., University of Pennsylvania, cum laude
Professor Delman has a varied background in civil litigation with an emphasis in medical malpractice. While at law school, she was editor of the American Criminal Law Review. After graduation she was selected for a judicial clerkship in Pennsylvania. Upon completing her clerkship, she worked in a large Philadelphia firm, where she specialized in medical malpractice litigation. Moving to San Diego, she joined the litigation department of the city’s largest law firm. Professor Delman also served as counsel to a medical products corporation.
Since she joined the faculty, she has served as faculty advisor to the Law Review, Society of Law and Medicine, student chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union and Law Students for Reproductive Justice. She is a member of the American College of Legal Medicine. She was a national lecturer for a bar review, served on the Advisory Board of the Lawyer’s Alliance for Nuclear Arms Control and is on the Board of Directors of Planned Parenthood of the Pacific Southwest. Professor Delman has been listed in Who’s Who in American Women.
Courses include:
Torts, Comparative Bioethics, Health Care Liability and Reproductive Justice
Scholarships
ARTICLES, BOOK CHAPTERS, AND ARTICLE-LENGTH WORKS
The Use and Misuse of Physician Extenders: Aiding and Abetting the Unauthorized Practice of Medicine, 24 J. Legal Med. 249 (2003)
Expertise
Comparative Law
Health Related Issues
- Bioethics
- Health Care Liability
- Law and Medicine
- Medical Malpractice
Personal Injury
Torts
- Torts








