[1] At Georgetown, Kanter was awarded a Graduate Fellowship at the Institute for Public Representation, where she represented the plaintiffs in, Clark v. Community for Creative Non-Violence, a case that was resolved by the United States Supreme Court in 1983.
One of those cases, City of Cleburne v. Cleburne Living Center, Inc., is legally significant because the Supreme Court struck down a zoning policy that discriminated against people with mental disabilities under the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, using only the rational basis test.
From 2001 to 2006, Kanter worked with the United Nations Committee on drafting the Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities (CRPD).
In recognition of the accomplishments of the Office of Clinical Legal Education, the College of Law received the Emil Gumbert Award for Advocacy Programs from the AALS in 1990.
Kanter also served as the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, during which time she introduced support for students with disabilities and a first year elective course program.
Professor Kanter was named the Lady Davis Fellow at Hebrew University Faculty of Law in 2018;[7] Fulbright Scholar at Tel Aviv University in 2009-10; and the 2010 Distinguished Switzer Fellow of the US Department of Education’s National Disability Rehabilitation Research Institute.