Tanya Asim Cooper
Clinic Instructor

B.A., M.A. Boston University; J.D., American University Washington College of Law

After graduating cum laude from American University Washington College of Law in 2002, Tanya Asim Cooper represented children and parents for five years as a staff attorney at The Children’s Law Center.  During that time, she represented indigent children in abuse and neglect, adoption, guardianship, and custody cases; parents in domestic violence, special education, custody, housing and public benefits cases; child witnesses in civil and criminal child abuse cases; and she advocated for neglected children in juvenile delinquency and special education matters. 

In law school, she was member of the staff of the Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law and was awarded Dean’s citation for the highest grade in the Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Law Clinic. 

Prior to law school, she studied psychology at Boston University and conducted research in the following areas: neuropsychology of child development and social-skills interventions for children with special needs.

Tanya Asim Cooper is married to Stephen Alexander Cooper, a trial attorney with The Public Defender Service in Washington, DC.