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David S. Cohen Associate Professor of Law
Email: David.S.Cohen@drexel.edu
Phone: 215-571-4714
Office: Earle
Mack School of Law, Room 232
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Education
J.D., Columbia University School of Law
B.A., Dartmouth College
David S. Cohen’s expertise includes sex discrimination,
reproductive rights and constitutional law.
Professor Cohen received his J.D. from Columbia University School
of Law, where he was named a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and received
the Public Interest Commitment Award and two Columbia Human Rights
Fellowships. He was managing editor of the Columbia Human
Rights Law Review and articles editor of the Columbia
Journal of Gender and Law.
After clerking for Justice Alan B. Handler of the New Jersey
Supreme Court and Judge Warren J. Ferguson of the U.S. Court
of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, Professor Cohen worked as a
fellow and staff attorney for the Women’s Law Project in
Philadelphia. There, he handled a range of cases involving reproductive
rights, sex discrimination under Title IX, health insurance coverage
of contraceptives, health care for women prisoners and family
rights for gay and lesbian couples. Professor Cohen worked on
several U.S. Supreme Court cases, including representing the
plaintiffs in Ferguson
v. City of Charleston.
Before coming to Drexel, he was a lecturer-in-law at the University
of Pennsylvania Law School. He also held adjunct professor positions
at the University of Pennsylvania and Long Island University.
Professor Cohen’s scholarship focuses on gender construction
in the law. An article about masculinity and single-sex education
is forthcoming in the Indiana Law Journal and an article about
Justice Kennedy’s conceptions of gender, appearing in a
symposium issue of the South Carolina Law Review. His previous
scholarship has looked at Title IX protections against sex discrimination
as well as race in the criminal justice system.
He currently serves on the board of directors for the Women’s
Medical Fund in Philadelphia.
He contributes to the Feminist
Law Professors blog and The
Good Phight, a blog on the Philadelphia Phillies.
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