Nina Kohn
Professor Kohn teaches elder law, family law, torts, and an interdisciplinary gerontology course. Her research focuses on elder law and, in particular, the civil rights of senior citizens. Her recent articles have addressed such issues as the potential for an elder rights movement, the practical and constitutional implications of elder abuse legislation, financial exploitation of the elderly, advance planning for and decision-making by individuals with intellectual and cognitive disabilities, and legal education.
Professor Kohn is a faculty affiliate with the Syracuse University Gerontology Center, a Commissioner of the American Bar Association (ABA) Commission on Law & Aging, Chair of the Elder Rights Committee of the Individual Rights and Responsibilities Section of the ABA, a Distinguished Fellow of the Canadian Centre for Elder Law, and the 2009 Chair of the Aging and the Law Section of the American Association of Law Schools. In 2011, the law school's graduating class selected Professor Kohn for the Res Ipsa Loquitur award in recognition for her excellence in teaching. In 2012, she was selected as Syracuse University's Judith Greenberg Seinfeld Distinguished Faculty Fellow.
Professor Kohn earned an A.B. summa cum laude from Princeton University and a J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard University. She clerked for the Honorable Fred I. Parker of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Following her clerkship, she was awarded a fellowship by the Skadden Fellowship Foundation to provide direct representation to nursing home residents and frail elders.