Prior to this position, Professor Bornstein served as Faculty Fellow, Associate Director, and Deputy Director of Hastings’ Center for WorkLife Law, where she researched and wrote on issues of caregiver discrimination and cotaught a seminar, Employment Law: Work & the Family, with Distinguished Professor of Law Joan C. Williams. Before coming to UC Hastings, Professor Bornstein worked as a staff attorney at Equal Rights Advocates (ERA), a public interest law center focused on gender discrimination in employment and education. At ERA, she represented plaintiffs in individual and class action employment matters, specializing in pregnancy discrimination and family and medical leave. She was also among a small group of advocates to help author and enact California’s Paid Family Leave insurance program, the nation’s first comprehensive paid leave law.