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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 as well as Supreme Court decision-making. In the past two years, Professor Cohen has published an article about masculinity and single-sex education in the Indiana Law Journal and an article about Justice Kennedy’s conceptions of gender, which appeared in a symposium issue of the South Carolina Law Review. Next year, the Boston University Law Review will publish a new article of Professor Cohen’s that uses social choice theory to examine paradoxical Supreme Court plurality decisions that call for overruling precedent. His previous scholarship has looked at Title IX protections against sex discrimination as well as race in the criminal justice system.
Professor Cohen was the recipient of the 2009 Dean Jennifer L. Rosato Excellence in the Classroom Award at the Earle Mack School of Law's inaugural commencement in May 2009.
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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