Marjorie Cohn is president
of the National Lawyers Guild. A professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law,
she lectures throughout the world on international human rights and U.S. foreign
policy. Professor Cohn is a news consultant for CBS News, and a legal
analyst for Court TV, and also provides legal and political commentary on
BBC, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, NPR and Pacifica Radio. Co-author of the book Cameras in the Courtroom: Television and the Pursuit of Justice, Professor Cohn's new book is Cowboy Republic: Six Ways the Bush Gang Has
Defied the Law.
She has published numerous articles in such journals as
Fordham Law Review, Hastings Law Journal and Virginia Journal of International
Law, as well as The National Law Journal, Christian Science Monitor and Chicago
Tribune. Professor Cohn is a contributing editor to Jurist, MWC News and Guild
Practitioner and her weekly columns appear on AlterNet, Counterpunch,
CommonDreams, HuffingtonPost, Buzzflash, OpedNews, AfterDowningStreet, ZNet, and
GlobalResearch, and are archived at http://www.marjoriecohn.com/. She has been a
criminal defense attorney at the trial and appellate levels for many years, and
was staff counsel to the California Agricultural Labor Relations Board.
Professor Cohn is the U.S. representative to the executive committee of the
Association of American Jurists. The recipient of the San Diego County Bar
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