Marjorie Cohn

13850 Bruyere Ct.
92129 San Diego
California
USA

Mobile : +18582043565
Office : +16193746923
Fax : +18584840587

Email: libertad48@san.rr.com, marjorie@tjsl.edu

Marjorie Cohn is president of the National Lawyers Guild and a professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law. 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." Her newest book is "Rules of Disengagement: The Politics and Honor of Military Dissent" (with Kathleen Gilberd). Her anthology, "The United States of Torture: America's Past and Present Policy of Interrogation and Abuse," will be published in fall 2010 by NYU Press. Professor Cohn is the U.S. representative to the executive committee of the American Association of Jurists and a board member of the U.S. Human Rights Network. She is a criminal defense attorney and she publishes extensively in the academic and popular press about criminal justice, U.S. foreign policy, and human rights. Professor Cohn provides commentary for local, regional, national, and international media. A judge on the 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