Tamara Kuennen

Tamara Kuennen teaches the Family Justice Litigation Clinic in the spring 2026 semester. She is visiting from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law, where she directs the Civil Litigation Clinic. These students represent survivors of intimate partner violence and sexual assault in obtaining civil protection orders, low-income tenants in defending against evictions, and immigrant day laborers who are unpaid for their work. Ms. Kuennen frequently trains judges as a consulting faculty member for the National Judicial Institute on Domestic Violence, a partnership of the U.S. Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women, the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, and Futures Without Violence. Her scholarship focuses on how the law could more adequately meet the needs of survivors of intimate partner violence. Before joining the faculty at Denver, she taught for two years in the Domestic Violence Clinic at Georgetown University Law Center, where she earned her LLM degree in trial advocacy in 2004. Prior to teaching, Ms. Kuennen practiced at Legal Aid Services of Oregon for five years, representing survivors in a variety of civil cases, including protection orders, domestic relations, public benefits, and civil rights litigation. She graduated from Northeastern University School of Law in 1996.