Joan Meier, Esq

George Washington University Law School and National Family Violence Law Center

Joan Meier, Esq. is the founding director of the National Family Violence Law Center and the NFVLC Professor of Clinical Law at George Washington University Law School. She has been teaching, litigating, researching and educating professionals nationally and internationally for over 30 years. While directing the Domestic Violence Legal Empowerment and Appeals Project (DV LEAP) from 2003-2019, she litigated numerous appeals in the U.S. Supreme Court and state appeals courts. Her team’s 2019 federally-funded empirical study is the first-ever national study quantifying family court responses to abuse and alienation claims.