Her teaching and scholarship focus on public interest lawyers, public law litigation, and access to justice. At UNC, her courses include the Civil Legal Assistance Clinic, Civil Lawyering Process, Legal Ethics and Social Justice, and Employment Discrimination. In the Civil Legal Assistance Clinic, Professor Sabbeth’s students represent clients in employment, housing, and other civil rights and economic justice cases. Before joining the UNC law faculty, Professor Sabbeth taught at Georgetown University Law Center. As a teaching fellow at Georgetown’s Institute for Public Representation, she taught in a civil rights clinic and supervised federal litigation regarding employment discrimination, public access to information, and other areas of public concern.