Amy Cohen

Assistant Professor
Mortiz College of Law
304 Drinko Hall
614.247.8459
cohen.308@osu.edu

Education
B.A., Rutgers, History and Hebraic Studies (1998)
J.D., Harvard Law School (2002)

Teaching/Research
Professor Cohen’s research interests include comparative dispute resolution, law and development, and gender and cultural theory. She teaches property, international dispute resolution, and mediation at the Moritz College of Law.

Selected Publications
"Revisiting Against Settlement: Some Reflections on Dispute Resolution and Public Values" (Fordham Law Review, forthcoming)
 
"Dispute System Design, Neoliberalism, and the Problem of Scale" (Harvard Negotiation Law Review, 2009)

"Thinking with Culture in Law and Development" (Buffalo Law Review, 2009)

"Negotiation, Meet New Governance: Interests, Skills, and Selves" (Law and Social Inquiry, 2008)

"Comparative Considerations: Toward the Global Transfer of Ideas on Dispute System Design," with Ellen E. Deason (Dispute Resolution Magazine, 2006; summarized in Dispute Resolution:  Negotiation, Mediation, and Other Processes, 2007)

"Debating the Globalization of U.S. Mediation: Politics, Power, and Practice in Nepal" (Harvard Negotiation Law Review, 2006)

"Gender: An (Un)Useful Category of Prescriptive Negotiation Analysis?" (Texas J. Women and Law, 2003; reprinted in Negotiation: Theory, Practice, and Law, 2006)

Honors and Awards
Visiting Professor, University of Turin, Faculty of Law (2009)
Associate Director, Project on Law and Democratic Development
(2007-)
Co-Director, The Ohio State Working Group on Cultural Difference & Democracy (2007-)
Advisor, Islamic Law Students Association (2005-)
Judicial Clerk, Judge Carlos F. Lucero, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, Denver (2003-04)
Fulbright Scholar, Kathmandu, Nepal (2002-03)

Mershon Project
Resistance and Rule of Law: A Critical Assessment of Law and Development Practice in Nepal

Amy Cohen
Assistant Professor of Law
The Ohio State University