​Jean L. Cohen

Jean L. Cohen is the Nell and Herbert M. Singer Professor of political theory in the Department of Political Science, Columbia University. She specializes in contemporary political and legal theory, with special focus on civil society, sovereignty, globalization and democracy, religion and politics. She is the author of numerous books and articles
including Class and Civil Society: The Limits of Marxian Critical Theory (University of Massachusetts Press: 1982); Civil Society and Political Theory (co-authored with Andrew Arato) (MIT Press 1992); Regulating Intimacy: a New Legal Paradigm (Princeton University Press: 2002); and Rethinking Legitimacy and Legality in the Epoch of Globalization (Cambridge University Press, 2012).  She is the co-editor of two volumes: Democratic Citizenship and War (Rutledge, 2010) and Religion Secularism and Constitutional Democracy (Columbia University Press, 2016). She has published over 70 articles in journals such as Constellations, Ethics and International Affairs, Philosophy and Social Criticism, Social Research, Political Theory, Telos, Thesis 11, and in numerous law reviews in addition to chapters in edited books. She is currently co-editor of the journal, Constellations. Her work is translated into many languages including Chinese, French, German, Italian, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish, and Swedish.