Beth D. Cohen

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs

Director, Legal Research and Writing Program

Associate Professor of Law

EDUCATION

B.A., State University of New York at Stony Brook
J.D., Suffolk University Law School

COURSES TAUGHT

Judicial Externship
Legal Research & Writing
Professional Responsibility

CONTACT INFORMATION

Email: bcohen@law.wne.edu
Phone: 413-782-1622
Office: L 141

GENERAL INFORMATION

Dean Cohen has taught at Western New England University School of Law since 1990. Prior to teaching at Western New England University, she taught Legal Practice Skills at Suffolk University Law School, where as a student she served on their Law Review. In addition, she has also earned a Diploma in Advanced International Legal Studies in Salzburg, Austria, from the University of the Pacific, McGeorge Law School. She has served as a Law Clerk to the Honorable Michael A. Ponsor of the United States District Court in Springfield, MA, and was an Associate at a small general practice law firm in Boston. She serves as the Director of the Legal Research and Writing Program.

PUBLICATIONS

Journal Articles

Beth D. Cohen, A Name of One's Own: The Spousal Permission Requirement and the Persistence of Patriarchy, 46 SUFFOLK U. L. REV. 1 (2013). SSRN Digital Commons

Beth Cohen, Radical Proposals to Reform Legal Pedagogy: Legal Learning for Life: Legal Immersion Fluency Education (LIFE), 43 HARV. C.R.-C.L. L. REV. 605 (2008). SSRN Digital Commons

Beth Cohen, Helping Students Develop a Humanistic Philosophy of Lawyering, 12 J. LEG. WRITING 141 (2006). SSRN Digital Commons

Beth Cohen, An Elective Advanced Course,THE SECOND DRAFT (The Legal Writing Institute), May 2002, at 13. (with J. Kaiser). Digital Commons

Beth Cohen, Commenting on Student Writing, THE SECOND DRAFT (The Legal Writing Institute), Nov. 1999, at 2 (with J. Cuffee, H. Freeman, J. Kaiser, Myra Orlen). Digital Commons

Beth Cohen, Instilling an Appreciation of Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility in First Year Legal Research and Writing Courses, 4 PERSPECTIVES: TEACHING LEGAL RESEARCH AND WRITING 5 (1995). SSRN Digital Commons

Chris Iijima & Beth Cohen, Reflections of IRAC, THE SECOND DRAFT (The Legal Writing Institute), Nov. 1995, at 9. Digital Commons

Beth Cohen, Supreme Court Implies Students' Claim to Money Damages Under Title IX: Franklin v. Gwinett County Public Schools, 5 MBA INDIV. RTS. and RESP. SEC. NEWS 2 (June 1993).

Beth Cohen & E. Mitnick, The Collateral Estoppel Effect of an Admission to Sufficient Facts in a Section 1983 Action for False Arrest and False Imprisonment, 4 MASS. GOV'TAL. LIAB. REP. 106 (1990).

Beth Cohen, Miranda Revisited: Broadening the Right to Counsel During Custodial Interrogation--Commonwealth v. Sherman, 18 SUFFOLK U.L. REV. 99 (1984). SSRN Digital Commons

Beth Cohen, Union Must Provide Attorney Representation Without Regard to Union Membership--National Treasury Employees Union v. Federal Labor Relations Authority, 18 SUFFOLK U.L. REV. 845 (1984). SSRN Digital Commons