Marjorie Cohn
Senior Editor

Marjorie Cohn, Professor of Law

J.D., Santa Clara University School of Law B.A., Stanford University, with departmental honors in Social Thought and Institutions

Professor Cohn lectures throughout the world on international human rights and U.S. foreign policy. A news consultant for CBS News, and a legal analyst for Court TV, she also provides legal and political commentary on BBC, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, NPR and Pacifica Radio. Co-author of the book Cameras in the Courtroom: Television and the Pursuit of Justice, Professor Cohn has published numerous articles in such journals as Fordham Law Review, Hastings Law Journal and Virginia Journal of International Law, as well as The National Law Journal, Christian Science Monitor and Chicago Tribune. Professor Cohn writes columns for Los Angeles Daily Journal and San Francisco Daily Journal, and she is a contributing editor to Jurist, truthout.org, and Guild Practitioner. She has been a criminal defense attorney at the trial and appellate levels for many years, and was staff counsel to the California Agricultural Labor Relations Board. Professor Cohn is President of the National Lawyers Guild, co-chair of the Guild’s international committee, and the U.S. representative to the executive committee of the American Association of Jurists. The recipient of the San Diego County Bar Association’s 2005 Service to Legal Education Award, she sits on the Advisory Board for the Haywood Burns Memorial Fellowships for Social and Economic Justice, and serves on the Roster of Experts at the Institute for Public Accuracy. Professor Cohn was a legal observer in Iran on behalf of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers, and she has participated in delegations to Cuba, China and Yugoslavia. She lived in Mexico and is fluent in Spanish.

Recent Scholarship

CAMERAS IN THE COURTROOM: TELEVISION AND THE PURSUIT OF JUSTICE (McFarland, 1998) (with David Dow), reprinted by Rowman & Littlefield (2002) and in Chinese translation by Cite (2002)

Contributing Editor (2000-present), JURIST: LEGAL INTELLIGENCE FOR AN EDUCATED DEMOCRACY (published online, http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/forum)

Contributing Editor (2004-2005), TRUTHOUT (published online, http://www.truthout.org)

Editor (1994-2004), GUILD PRACTITIONER (National Lawyers Guild)

Editorial Board (1991-present), GUILD PRACTITIONER (National Lawyers Guild)
U.S. Coup D’Etat in Haiti, 61 GUILD PRACTITIONER 129 (2004)

United States Violation of International Law in Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, and Iraq, in FORM AND SUBSTANCE IN CONTEMPORARY CONSTITUTIONALISM: FOR A JURIDICAL APPROACH TO MULTI-LEVEL DEMOCRACY (Joakim Nergelius, Pasquale Policastro & Kenji Urata, eds., Ashgate, forthcoming 2004)

Resisting Equality: Why the United States Refuses to Ratify the Women's Convention, 26 T. JEFFERSON L. REV. (forthcoming 2004)

The Kidnapping of President Aristide From Haiti Violated International and U.S. Law, 61 GUILD PRACTIONER (forthcoming 2004)

Close the Concentration Camp at Guantanamo, 76 COVERT ACTION QUARTERLY (2004).

Oil: Weapon of Mass Destruction, 11 BRIDGES: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY J. THEOLOGY, PHIL., HIST. & SCIENCE 1 (2004)

On Terrorism and National Liberation Struggles, 11 INT'L ISLAMIC UNIV. MALAYSIA L.J. 297 (2004)
Human Rights: Casualty of the War on Terror, 25 T. JEFFERSON L. REV. 317 (2004)

The Evisceration of the Attorney-Client Privilege in the Wake of September 11, 2001, 71 FORDHAM L. REV. 1233 (2003)

The Myth of Humanitarian Intervention in Kosovo, IN LESSONS OF KOSOVO: THE DANGERS OF HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION 121 (Aleksandar Jokic, ed., Broadview, 2003)

Saving the World From the Scourge of Unilateralism, 60 GUILD PRACTITIONER 194 (2003)

Affirmative Action and the Equality Principle in Human Rights Treaties: United States’ Violation of Its International Obligations, 43 VA. J. INT’L. L. 249 (2002)

Understanding, Responding to, and Preventing Terrorism, 24 ARAB STUDIES Q. 25 (2002)

NATO Bombing of Kosovo: Humanitarian Intervention or Crime Against Humanity?, 15 INT’L. J. FOR SEMIOTICS OF L. 79 (2002)

Bombing of Afghanistan Is Illegal and Must Be Stopped, INT’L REV. CONTEMPORARY L. 51 (special ed. 2002, Military Intervention in Afghanistan, The War on Terrorism: Violations of International Law)

Affirmative Action Mandates in U.S. International Legal Obligations, in USING THE LAW TO ACHIEVE EQUALITY: A REPORT FROM THE NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD-NATIONAL UNION OF CUBAN JURISTS SEMINAR IN HAVANA, CUBA 9 (Nat’l Lawyers Guild, 2002)

Criminal Law: Substantive Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure, in ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEMS, SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES: LAW, § 6.31.2.4 (UNESCO-Eolss, 2002) (published online at http://www.eolss.net) (co-authored with Steven Semeraro & Ruth B. Philips)

The World Trade Organization: Elevating Property Interests Above Human Rights, 29 GA. J. INT’L & COMP. L. 427 (2001)

Open-And-Shut: Senate Impeachment Deliberations Must Be Public, 51 HASTINGS L.J. 365 (2000)

The WTO: A New World Government Dedicated to the Principle That Property Interests Are More Sacred Than Human Rights, 57 GUILD PRACTITIONER 134 (2000) The Politics of the Clinton Impeachment and the Death of the Independent Counsel Statute: Toward Depoliticization, 102 W. VA. L. REV. 59 (1999)

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