Clinical professor of law and director of the Criminal and Youth Justice Clinic (Criminal and Youth Justice Clinic, Juvenile Justice Seminar)
Professor Cohen earned a B.A. summa cum laude from Rutgers College
and a J.D. from Columbia, where she was managing editor of the Columbia Human Rights Law Review.
She is the former director of training for the New York City Legal Aid
Society's Juvenile Rights Division, where she oversaw both the attorney
training program and public policy initiatives relating to juvenile
justice and child welfare. She also has served as a senior policy
analyst for the Violence Institute of New Jersey; deputy court monitor
in Morales Feliciano v. Hernandez Colon, a prisoners' rights
class action in the U.S. District Court in San Juan, Puerto Rico;
adjunct professor at New York Law School; and staff attorney for the
Legal Aid Society. Professor Cohen codirects the Northeast Regional
Juvenile Defender Center, an affiliate of the National Juvenile Defender
Center, which is dedicated to improving the quality of representation
accorded children in juvenile court.
Her scholarly interests include
juvenile justice, child welfare, and the legal representation of
children and adolescents.
