Marjorie Cohn

Marjorie Cohn, J.D., is Professor Emerita at Thomas Jefferson School of Law and a former president of the National Lawyers Guild. Her anthology, Drones and Targeted Killing: Legal, Moral, and Geopolitical Issues was published in 2015. She is the author of Cowboy Republic: Six Ways the Bush Gang Has Defied the Law and co-author of Cameras in the Courtroom: Television and the Pursuit of Justice as well as Rules of Disengagement: The Politics and Honor of Military Dissent, and editor-contributor to The United States and Torture: Interrogation, Incarceration, and Abuse.

Professor Cohn is the U.S. Representative to the Executive Committee of the American Association of Jurists, and Deputy Secretary General for External Communication of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers. She is on the National Advisory Board of Veterans for Peace and the Advisory Board of ExposeFacts. She is a criminal defense attorney and publishes extensively in the academic and popular press about human rights and U.S. foreign policy.

Professor Cohn has appeared on CNN, Fox News, BBC, and writes for HuffingtonPost. She testifies as an expert witness in military hearings about the illegality of the wars and the duty to disobey unlawful orders. A judge on the 2009 International Tribunal of Conscience in Support of the Vietnamese Victims of Agent Orange, she also testified in 2008 about Bush administration torture policy before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. She is the 2008 recipient of the Peace Scholar of the Year Award from the Peace and Justice Studies Association, and she received the 2009 Digna Ochoa Human Rights Defender Award from Amnesty International Northern San Diego County. Her articles are archived at www.marjoriecohn.com.