Charles E. Cohen
Associate Professor of Law,
Faculty Advisor,
Moot Court Board
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Ph: 614-236-6580 | Fx: 614-236-6956 | Room: 625 | ccohen@law.capital.edu
Before joining Capital in 2003, Professor Cohen practiced with the law firm of Farella Braun & Martel LLP in San Francisco, where his work focused on real property and bankruptcy transactions and litigation. Prior to law school he was a professional journalist, writer and editor based in New York. Professor Cohen's scholarly interests lie primarily in the field of real property, particularly takings and eminent domain law. His article Eminent Domain After Kelo v. City of New London: An Argument for Banning Economic Development Takings, appeared in the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy and has been cited by the highest courts of Ohio and Maryland as well as in numerous legal publications. Professor Cohen is the faculty advisor the Moot Court Board and co-coach of the Philip J. Fulton Law Office National Moot Court Team.
Career Highlights
- Law Clerk to the Hon. Thomas G. Nelson, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- Associate, Farella Braun and Martell LLP, San Francisco
- Senior Articles Editor, Hastings Law Journal
- Staff writer for People Magazine and Money Magazine. Co-Editor of the electronic edition of the New York Times.
- Editor, All that We Can Be: Black Leadership and Racial Integration the Army Way by Charles C. Moskos an John Sibley Butler (Basic Books, 1996)
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Selected Publications
- The Abstruse Science: Kelo, Lochner, and Representation Reinforcement in the Public Use Debate, 46 DUQUESNE LAW REVIEW 375 (2008).
- "Tightening Eminent-Domain Reins Was Wise", Columbus Dispatch, August 5, 2006, at A8 (Op-Ed commenting on the Ohio Supreme Court’s decision in City of Norwood v. Horney)
- Eminent Domain After Kelo v. City of New London: An Argument for Banning Economic Development Takings, 29 HARVARD JOURNAL OF LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY 491 (2006)
- Takings Analysis of Police Destruction of Innocent Owners’ Property in the Course of Law Enforcement: The View From Five State Supreme Courts, 34 McGEORGE LAW REVIEW 1 (2002)
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Courses
- Property
- Secured Transactions
- Payment Systems
- Sexual Orientation and the Law
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Education
- J.D., cum laude, University of California, Hastings College of Law
- B.A., cum laude, Harvard University
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