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| Location | Washington, DC |
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| Introduction | Teaching Comparative Politics (Govt 130.008T), Fall Semester, 2011. |
| Interests | Courses taught recently: Comparative Politics; Gender, Politics & Power. CCC also taught both the Justice and the Public Law seminars in American University’s Washington Semester Program for several years, 1999-2004. She has also taught undergraduate classes in Women and the Law and in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties at AU, and has taught International Rights of Women at GW Law School. CCC taught an AU online course, from San Francisco, for three summers, 2004-2006, called The Road to Global Justice; International Human Rights from Nuremberg to Baghdad. Professor Cohan earned her B.A. in English from Rice University, and her J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law before migrating to Washington, DC. She practiced law in Washington for fifteen years, and became the first woman partner at her law firm. Before beginning her teaching career at American University, she earned her masters degree in law (LLM) from the George Washington University School of Law in the field of International and Comparative Law. She has published in the Texas Law Review, and in the George Washington International Law Review: International Mavericks: A Comparative Analysis of Selected Human Rights and Foreign Policy Issues in Iran and the United States. Professor Cohan lives with her husband in Washington, DC, where they have raised two children and several dogs. She is addicted to chocolate, the Supreme Court, and several Blogs, including the Daily Beast, Andrew Sullivan’s and James Fallows’ blogs for Atlantic, the Huffington Post, and Talking Points Memo; she reads the Washington Post on real paper, the New York Times and Slate online, loves NPR, mysteries, spy novels, and Jane Austen; and is wild about audio books of many kinds, but TV not so much. |