Clinical Associate Professor.
Professor Cohen
joined the Rutgers law faculty in 2005. He is
a former litigator with the law firm of Stradley Ronon in Philadelphia, where
from 1998 to 2005 his practice focused on a range of complex commercial and
employment matters, including cases involving discrimination, enforcement of
restrictive covenants, retaliation and wrongful discharge claims at the
administrative, state, and federal levels. While in practice, he also handled
client counseling, discovery, briefing, and oral argument resulting in summary
judgments in favor of his clients, including two published decisions, Hampton
v. Armand Corp., 834 A.2d 1077 (N.J. Super. 2003); and Superka v. Valley Forge Life
Insurance Co., 44 Pa. D & C. 4th 92 (Pa. Com. Pl. 1999). In 2005, his
arguments and briefing on behalf of a major brokerage firm were instrumental in
the denial of a nationwide class action of Title VII sexual harassment
plaintiffs in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New
York. Professor Cohen is a 1994 Phi Beta
Kappa graduate of the University of Florida, with honors, and a 1998 graduate
of Rutgers School of Law–Camden, with honors. While a law student, he was lead state constitutional law editor of the Rutgers Law Journal, and is the author
of "Developments in State Constitutional Law, The Judicial Branch," 28 Rutgers Law
Journal 1184 (1997); and an article
forthcoming in Charlotte Law Review on written client advocacy. In 2009, Professor Cohen received the honor
of being selected as the law school's Professor of the Year. Professor Cohen
serves as the director of moot court programs, teaches legal analysis, writing,
and research, advanced written advocacy for public interest organizations, as
well as a rhetorical theory-based public speaking for lawyers class.
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