Josh Boissevain

Josh Boissevain is Senior Staff Attorney at Colorado Water Trust, a statewide nonprofit that restores flows to Colorado's rivers and streams through water rights transactions. Since joining the Trust in 2023, he has handled water court litigation, water rights research, water leasing and delivery agreements, and state water policy matters.

After law school, Josh clerked for the Honorable James F. Hartmann in the Water Court for Water Division 1. He then spent several years in private practice, where he represented water users across Colorado, primarily municipalities, in water rights litigation and transactions.

At Sturm College of Law, Josh teaches the Water Court Practice Seminar, which covers the procedure and practice of Colorado's water courts. He serves on the advisory board of the Water Law Review. He co-authored a 2019 Water Law Review article on pro se litigants in water court with former Justice Gregory J. Hobbs Jr. and others.

Before turning to law, Josh worked as a journalist in Colorado and in Central and Eastern Europe, and he served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Republic of Moldova. He holds a B.S. in News-Editorial Journalism from the University of Colorado Boulder and a J.D. from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law (2018).