OUR FACULTY

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Yael Zakai Cannon is a Practitioner-in-Residence with the Disability Rights Law Clinic. She also teaches Juvenile Law: Children’s Legal Rights. Yael co-chairs the District of Columbia Special Education Advocates Roundtable, and trains court-appointed lawyers in the District of Columbia Family Court on special education law and mental health advocacy on behalf of children. Prior to arriving at WCL, Yael worked as a senior attorney with the Health Access Project at The Children’s Law Center, where she represented parents and caregivers in special education, school discipline, access to health care, public benefits, family law, and housing cases as part of a medical-legal collaborative with Children’s National Medical Center. She also managed a special education pro bono project, and served as a policy attorney at The Children’s Law Center, advocating for systemic reform in the child welfare, mental health, and education systems in the District of Columbia. Yael has also taught as an adjunct professor with the Afro-American Studies Department at the University of Maryland, College Park. She graduated from Stanford Law School as a Graduate with Distinction and from the University of Maryland summa cum laude with a B.A. in History and a B.A. in Afro-American Studies.

• Selected Publications

  • Yael Cannon, Who’s the Boss?: The Need for Thoughtful Identification of the Client(s) in Special Education Cases, 19 Am. U. J. Gender Soc. Policy & L. __ (forthcoming Sept. 2011).
  • Yael Cannon, Remedies, in Special Education Advocacy (Ruth Colker and Julie Waterstone, eds., LexisNexis 01-01-2011).
  • Yael Cannon & Laura Rinaldi, Initiating a Special Education Case, in Special Education Advocacy (Ruth Colker and Julie Waterstone, eds., LexisNexis 2011).