Cassie Hazelip, J.D.

Cassie Hazelip (she/her) is an attorney and professor building a Disability Justice Clinic at the Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She completed a clinical fellowship at the Mental Health Justice Clinic at Yale Law School with Marisol Orihuela where she worked with law students to represent people with disabilities, including those involuntarily held in long-term civil commitment. Prior to entering academia, she was a supervising attorney at The Bronx Defenders’ Family Defense Practice representing parents facing separation by the family policing — or “child welfare” — system. She went to the City University of New York (CUNY) School of Law where she interned at Mental Hygiene Legal Service and was the Public Interest Practitioners’ Section editor of the law journal. Before going to law school, Cassie worked with people experiencing chronic homelessness and advocated for truly supportive housing for people with disabilities.