Kevin Barry

Kevin Barry is the Sidley Austin - Robert D. McLean Visiting Professor at Yale Law School and Professor of Law at Quinnipiac University School of Law, where he serves as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Co-Director of the Civil Justice Clinic. Barry and his students have worked on numerous cases successfully challenging discrimination based on gender dysphoria under disability rights laws, including the landmark case of Blatt v. Cabela’s Retail, Inc. From 2006–2008, Barry was a Teaching Fellow and Supervising Attorney of Georgetown University Law Center’s Federal Legislation Clinic, where he helped negotiate draft legislative language that culminated in passage of the ADA Amendments Act of 2008. He previously worked as an Associate at Ropes & Gray, conducted research at Amnesty International USA and Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, and served as Pro Bono Counsel at the Political Asylum/ Immigration Representation Project. Barry clerked for the Honorable Kermit V. Lipez of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and the Honorable William E. Smith of the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island. He serves as Co-director of The ADA Project and is the former President and Policy Committee Chair of the Connecticut Women’s Education and Legal Fund.