Kevin M. Barry

Kevin Barry is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law at Quinnipiac University School of Law. He teaches administrative law and disability law and is the co-director of the law school's civil justice clinic, which represents low-income clients through a combination of direct legal services and policy advocacy.

Prior to joining Quinnipiac, Barry was a teaching fellow in Georgetown University Law Center's Federal Legislation Clinic, where he represented a national coalition of disability rights organizations in support of their efforts to amend the Americans with Disabilities Act. He was also a member of the team of disability rights lawyers that successfully negotiated draft legislative language with lawyers from the business community, resulting in passage of the ADA Amendments Act of 2008. Barry served as an associate at Ropes & Gray, a researcher at Amnesty International USA and Americans United for Separation of Church and State, and a law clerk to Judge William E. Smith of the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island and Judge Kermit V. Lipez of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.

Barry's work focuses on civil and human rights issues, including transgender rights, disability rights, and death penalty abolition. Barry and his students have filed amicus briefs on behalf of national and state transgender rights organizations and provided consultation in cases successfully challenging discrimination based on gender dysphoria under the ADA, including the landmark case of Blatt v. Cabela’s Retail, Inc. In 2015, the Connecticut Supreme Court cited Barry's work in the landmark case of State v. Santiago, which declared Connecticut's death penalty unconstitutional.

Barry has published articles in the Harvard Law Review, Southern California Law Review, Iowa Law Review, Florida Law Review, and Boston College Law Review, among others. He is the past president of the board of the Connecticut Women's Education and Legal Fund, a non-profit organization that serves women and girls.