Globalization, Law & Justice Workshop: Amy Cohen

Globalization, Law & Justice Workshop Series

 presents

Amy Cohen

Ohio State University Moritz College of Law

Thinking with Culture in Law and Development

4:10 – 6:00 PM
Thursday, November 25, 2010

Solarium (room FA2) – Falconer Hall

84 Queen’s Park

Professor Amy Cohen teaches property, international dispute resolution, law and development, and mediation. Her research interests include the practice and theory of dispute resolution and democratic governance, particularly in international and transnational development contexts.  Prior to joining the Moritz faculty, Professor Cohen taught at the Kathmandu School of Law in Nepal as a Fulbright Scholar. Upon her return to the U.S., she clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in Denver, Colorado. At Ohio State, she is associate director of the Project on Law and Democratic Development and affiliated faculty at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies. She has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Turin, Italy, Faculty of Law (Fall 2009), and is currently a Fulbright-Nehru Visiting Professor at the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences in Kolkata, India (Fall 2010). She has also worked on community development initiatives in Nepal, Thailand, and Ghana.  Professor Cohen is a graduate of Rutgers University and Harvard Law School. During law school, she was a Hewlett Fellow in the Program on Negotiation, and worked at the White House and State Department.

For more workshop information, please contact Nadia Gulezko at n.gulezko@utoronto.ca.