Kirby Tyrrell joined the Washburn Law faculty in 2024 and directs the Family Justice and Immigration Clinic. She was previously a Robert M. Cover Clinical Teaching Fellow at Yale Law School, where she taught in the Worker & Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic. Prior to teaching, she was a Staff Attorney at the Center for Reproductive Rights and litigated cases challenging reproductive rights restrictions in state and federal courts throughout the country. She was also a Skadden Fellow at Her Justice, where she created a medical-legal partnership that provided family, matrimonial, and immigration legal services to domestic violence survivors in New York City.
Articles in Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals
"Addressing Junk Science in Abortion Litigation," 55 University of Memphis Law Review 61 (2024).
Selected Presentations
- Defending Bodily Autonomy: Abortion Access & the Sexual Violence Prevention Movement, Panelist, New York City Alliance Against Sexual Assault, July 2022
- Texas Senate Bill 8: Impact on Patients and Providers, Panelist, University of California San Diego Medical School, October 2021
- Roe v. Wade: Life in 2021, Panelist, Peer Health Exchange NYC, January 2021
- Implications of Overturning Roe v. Wade, Panelist, Bay Area Next Council for Peer Health Exchange, November 2020
- Reproductive Rights in the United States in 2020, Presenter, Unitarian Church of All Souls Women’s Alliance, May 2020
- Emergency SCOTUS Briefing: June v. Gee, Panelist, Cardozo Law School, November 2019
- Roe at Risk: The Future of Reproductive Rights in America, Panelist, Fordham Law School, October 2019
- The Role of Social Workers in Sustainable Development, Panelist, Columbia School of Social Work, March 2017
- Policing Reproduction: Reproductive Justice, Mass Incarceration, and Criminalization, Co-Organizer, Rebellious Lawyering Conference, Yale Law School, February 2016
Professional Service
- Member, Clinical Legal Education Association, Elections Committee, 2024-
- Member, Topeka Mayor's Taskforce Against Domestic Violence, 2024-
- Secretary, New York City Bar Association, Domestic Violence Committee, 2017-2018
