Professor Kanter is an expert in legal responses to domestic violence and sexual assault. She is a founding partner of the school's Domestic Violence Institute and currently serves as its Executive Director. She teaches the Domestic Violence Clinic, a six credit course that places upper level law students in the Dorchester and Roxbury Divisions of the Boston Municipal Court to assist victims of violence in securing civil restraining orders and related relief.

While at Northeastern, Professor Kanter has been involved in a wide variety of community coalitions and federally sponsored research and demonstration projects. She helped to found the Victim Rights Law Center, a unique organization providing civil legal services to sexual assault victims, and served as the first president of its board of directors. She has been active in interdisciplinary research and programming, and for twenty years directed a medical legal project in the Emergency Department of Boston Medical Center.

Prior to coming to Northeastern, Professor Kanter was a clinical instructor at the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, a clinical instructor at Boston University and a managing attorney for Greater Boston Legal Services.

In addition, Professor Kanter is involved in the law school’s Legal Skills in Social Context program.