A graduate of Columbia Law School and Dartmouth College, Professor Cohen spent the seven years before joining Drexel's inaugural faculty in public interest legal practice at the Women's Law Project in Philadelphia. At Columbia, Professor Cohen was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, a senior editor on the Columbia Human Rights Law Review, and an articles editor on the Columbia Journal of Gender and Law. After law school, Professor Cohen clerked for Justice Alan B. Handler of the New Jersey Supreme Court and Judge Warren J. Ferguson of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. He also was a lecturer-in-law at the University of Pennsylvania School of Law for four years and has taught undergraduate courses on sex discrimination and constitutional law at the University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences and Long Island University.
Articles
No Boy Left Behind? Single-Sex Education and the Essentialist Myth of Masculinity, Indiana Law Journal (2009)
In late 2006, the Department of Education changed the Title IX regulations to broaden the...
Justice Kennedy's Gendered World, South Carolina Law Review (2008)
As part of the South Carolina Law Review's symposium on the Roberts Court and Equal...
Title IX: Beyond Equal Protection, Harvard Journal of Law & Gender (2005)
The relationship between Title IX and the Equal Protection Clause is relevant to many...
Limiting Gebser: Institutional Liability for Non Harassment Sex Discrimination Under Title IX, Wake Forest Law Review (2004)
Democracy and the Intersection of Prisons, Racism, and Capital, National Black Law Journal (1997)
Working Papers
The Precedent-Based Voting Paradox, Boston University Law Review, Vol. 90 (upcoming 2009) (2009)
A voting paradox arises when the outcome of a case is the opposite of the...