www.law.uga.edu

Harlan G. Cohen

Assistant Professor of Law

B.A., M.A., Yale University
J.D., New York University

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Courses

International Human Rights
International Criminal Law
Foreign Affairs and the Constitution
International Law Colloquium

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Biographical Information

Harlan G. Cohen joined the Georgia Law faculty in 2007 as an assistant professor specializing in international law.

Cohen came to Georgia Law from the New York University School of Law where he was a Furman Fellow and researched national security law, international law and legal history.

Previously, he worked at the New York law firm Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton as an associate and served as a judicial clerk for Judge Wilfred Feinberg of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit. Cohen also interned in the U.S. Attorney's Office and for U.S. District Court Judge Shira A. Scheindlin, both from the Southern District of New York. Before entering law school, Cohen worked at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and at the journal Foreign Affairs.

His scholarship includes: "Finding International Law: Rethinking the Doctrine of Sources" in the Iowa Law Review, "Supremacy and Diplomacy: The International Law of the U.S. Supreme Court" in the Berkeley Journal of International Law, "The American Challenge to International Law: A Tentative Framework for Debate" in the Yale Journal of International Law and "The (Un) Favorable Judgment of History: Deportation Hearings, the Palmer Raids, and the Meaning of History" in the New York University Law Review.

Cohen is a member of the American Society of International Law, the New York State Bar Association, the American Bar Association and the International Human Rights Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.

He earned a dual degree in history and international studies from Yale University before earning his master's in history. In 2003, he graduated magna cum laude from the New York University School of Law, where he was a Florence Allen Scholar and was inducted into the Order of the Coif. Additionally, Cohen served as the articles editor of the New York University Law Review and received the Washington Foreign Law Society's Justice Robert H. Jackson Prize for best published student writing on a topic of international/foreign law.

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