Jane M. Cohen
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Jane Maslow Cohen teaches feminist theory, property, and water law and policy. She is affiliated with an interdisciplinary group of scientists researching bioprecipitation, the biological nucleation of ice, rain, and snow. The potential legal implications of bioprecipitation and the intersection of science, law, and water policy are the focus of her current scholarly work.
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Jane Maslow Cohen graduated from Wellesley College as a Durant Scholar (highest academic honors), Phi Beta Kappa, after spending her junior year at Princeton University, and from the Yale Law School, after spending her third year at Harvard Law School. She practiced law in Boston, Massachusetts, then served as Professor of Law on the faculty of Boston University School of Law. She joined the University of Texas law faculty in 2002.
Professor Cohen teaches in the areas of feminist theory; property; and water law and policy. She is affiliated with an inter-disciplinary group of scientists who research bioprecipitation: the biological nucleation of ice, rain, and snow. The potential legal implications of bioprecipitation and work at the intersection of science, law, and water policy are the focus of her current scholarly work.
Professor Cohen was awarded the Holleran-Steiker Teaching Prize in Undergraduate Studies in 2014. She was nominated for the Frank Oliver Teaching Prize by the University’s Plan II program in 2017.
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year-2012
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Article
Are We Killing the Rain? Meditations on the Water Cycle and, More Particularly, on Bioprecipitation
Jane M. Cohen, Are We Killing the Rain? Meditations on the Water Cycle and, More Particularly, on Bioprecipitation, 37 Water International 670 (2012). -
Book Chapter
Abortion and Reproductive Rights
Jane M. Cohen, Abortion and Reproductive Rights, in The Oxford Handbook of Legal Studies 672 (Peter Cane & Mark Tushnet eds.; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012).
year-2005
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Article
Foreword--and Forward!: Toward the Felicitous Relationship of Words and Ideas
Jane M. Cohen, Foreword--and Forward!: Toward the Felicitous Relationship of Words and Ideas, 1 Blackacre 1 (2005). -
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Foreword [Symposium: Changing Directions in Water Law]
Jane M. Cohen, Foreword [Symposium: Changing Directions in Water Law], 83 Texas Law Review 1809 (2005).
year-2004
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Book Chapter
Immigrants, Agency, and Allegiance: Some Notes from Anthropology and from Law
Jane M. Cohen, Immigrants, Agency, and Allegiance: Some Notes from Anthropology and from Law, in Engaging Cultural Differences: The Multicultural Challenge in Liberal Democracies 99 (R.A. Shweder, M. Minow & H.R. Markus eds.; New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2004) (with Caroline Bledsoe).
year-2001
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Genophobia: What Is Wrong with Genetic Discrimination?
Jane M. Cohen, Genophobia: What Is Wrong with Genetic Discrimination?, 149 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1439 (2001) (with Colin S. Diver).