Social Justice Mondays Series: November 12th in Strong Common, Bergin Hall from noon to 1 p.m. Lunch will be provided.
Six Ways the Bush Gang Has Defied the Law
Co-Sponsored by the Public Interest and Social Justice Coalition
Marjorie Cohn, ’75 (President of the National Lawyers Guild and Professor of Law at Thomas Jefferson School of Law)
Marjorie Cohn is a professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law and President of the National Lawyers Guild. She 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. She is a co?author of the book CAMERASIN THE COURTROOM: TELEVISIONAND THE PURSUIT OF JUSTICE.
Professor Cohn’s new book, available for purchase at her SCU talk, is COWBOY REPUBLIC: SIX WAYS THE BUSH GANG HAS DEFIED THE LAW. She 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 is a contributing editor to Jurist, MWC News and Guild Practitioner and her weekly columns appear on AlterNet, Counterpunch, CommonDreams, HuffingtonPost, Buzzflash, AfterDowningStreet, ZNet, and GlobalResearch, and are archived at http://www.marjoriecohn.com/.
She has been a criminal defense attorney at the trial and appellate levels for many years. Professor Cohn was recognized as one of San Diego’s Top Attorneys in Academics for 2006 and received the 2007 Bernard E. Witkin, Esq. Award for Excellence in the Teaching of the Law. She is a 1975 graduate of Santa Clara University School of Law.