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.
Addressing Junk Science in Abortion Litigation, __ University of Memphis Law Review ___ (forthcoming).
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
