Faculty/Staff Profile

Kirby Tyrrell

Associate Professor

RoomRoom 217Phone785.670.1674Emailkirby.tyrrell@washburn.edu

Degrees & Certifications

Harvard College, Bachelor of Arts
Columbia Law School, Juris Doctor

Teaching

LW 756 2, Clinic: Litigation

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

Presenter, "Immigration Relief for Survivors," Topeka Mayor’s Task Force on Domestic Violence, Topeka, Kansas, August 2026.

Presenter, "Immigration Relief for Survivors," YWCA Center for Safety and Empowerment, Topeka, Kansas, September 2025.

Presenter, "Recent Developments in Immigration Court Practice," Faculty Development Series, Washburn University School of Law, Topeka, Kansas, September 2025.

Presenter, "Noncitizen Rights in the United States," Washburn University School of Law, Topeka, Kansas, September 2025.

Presenter, "Noncitizen Rights in the United States," International Student Orientation, Washburn University School of Law, Topeka, Kansas, August 2025.

Poster Presenter, "Clinical Pedagogy Reading Groups: One Strategy for Deepening Collaboration Across Clinics," Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Conference on Clinical Legal Education, Baltimore, Maryland, April 26, 2025.

Presenter, "Immigration Rights," Trump 2.0 Colloquium, Washburn University School of Law, Topeka, Kansas, March 2025.

Panelist, "Defending Bodily Autonomy: Abortion Access & the Sexual Violence Prevention Movement," New York City Alliance Against Sexual Assault, New York, July 2022.

Panelist, "Texas Senate Bill 8: Impact on Patients and Providers," University of California San Diego Medical School, San Diego, California, October 2021.

Panelist, "Roe v. Wade: Life in 2021," Peer Health Exchange, New York City, New York, January 2021.

Panelist, "Implications of Overturning Roe v. Wade," Bay Area Next Council for Peer Health Exchange, California, November 2020.

Presenter, "Reproductive Rights in the United States in 2020," Unitarian Church of All Souls Women’s Alliance, New York City, New York, May 2020.

Panelist, "Emergency SCOTUS Briefing: June v. Gee," Cardozo School of Law, New York City, New York, November 2019.

Panelist, "Roe at Risk: The Future of Reproductive Rights in America," Fordham University School of Law, New York City, New York, October 2019.

Panelist, "The Role of Social Workers in Sustainable Development," Columbia University School of Social Work, New York City, New York, March 2017.

Co-Organizer, "Policing Reproduction: Reproductive Justice, Mass Incarceration, and Criminalization," Rebellious Lawyering Conference, Yale Law School, New Haven, Connecticut, February 2016.

Professional Service

Member, Kansas Legal Services Topeka Advisory Council, 2025-.

Co-Chair, 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.