Rate My Professor Anna Cabot

J. Anna Cabot serves as Clinical Associate Professor, Director of the Immigration Clinic, and Assistant Dean of Clinical Programs at the University of Houston Law Center. In these capacities, she directs a live-client clinic handling humanitarian immigration cases including asylum, U-visas, and Special Immigrant Juvenile Status; teaches seminars on lawyering skills, substantive law, and ethics; supervises student attorneys; and manages operations across all UHLC clinics, including staffing, budgeting, grants, and community engagement. She joined UHLC in 2023. Previously, from 2020 to 2023, she was Practitioner in Residence at American University Washington College of Law's Gender Justice Clinic, supervising students in immigration, family law, housing, and related matters, and teaching Asylum and Refugee Law. Earlier, as William Davis Clinical Teaching Fellow at the University of Connecticut School of Law (2014-2018), she led the Asylum and Human Rights Clinic, developed the Immigration Detention and DACA Clinic, and initiated interdisciplinary programs with social work and medical students. Her professional practice encompasses roles as Senior Staff Attorney at the Center for Gender and Refugee Studies, litigating asylum appeals and policy challenges; Managing Attorney at Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center; and Legal Services Coordinator at Asylum Access in Tanzania.

Cabot earned her J.D. cum laude from American University Washington College of Law in 2009 and her B.A. in physics magna cum laude with distinction from Amherst College in 2003, after which she received a Fulbright Scholarship to study in India. Her research focuses on the intersections of gender, cultural difference, global migration, immigration law, and international law, alongside crisis-responsive clinical pedagogy. Notable publications include Asylum Law (1st ed. 2026), "Health Care in an Evolving Immigration Landscape" (New England Journal of Medicine, 2025, co-authored), "Understanding the Legal Framework for Asylum" in Practicing Asylum (2023), and "Problems Faced by Mexican Asylum Seekers in the United States" (Journal on Migration and Human Security, 2014). Honors include the 2018 American Immigration Lawyers Association Pro Bono Champion Award (Connecticut Chapter), 2017 Light of Liberty Award, and the Washington College of Law Public Interest Scholarship. Cabot contributes to UHLC committees, advises the Public Interest Law Organization, participates in immigration workshops and conferences, and holds New York State bar admission.