Georgetown Law

From 1965, until his retirement in 2018, Professor Emeritus Sherman L. Cohn served on the faculty of Georgetown University Law Center. He specialized in the fields of civil procedure; professional responsibility; and legal issues surrounding complementary, alternative, and integrative medicine, on which he also lectured at Georgetown University Medical Center. In addition, he taught Jewish Law. He wrote and spoke widely in each of these areas. Before joining the faculty, he served as a clerk for Judge Charles Fahy of the D.C. Circuit and in the Appellate Section of the Civil Division of the Department of Justice. He is a retired member of the D.C., Maryland, and Virginia bars and a member of the American Law Institute, the American Judicature Society, and the Society of American Law Teachers.

At the behest of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Warren Burger, Professor Cohn helped to establish the American Inns of Court and for eleven years, served as its first president. He is a master of the Charles Fahy American Inn. He served as the Administrator of Preview of U.S. Supreme Court Cases from 1976-79 and as Director of Continuing Legal Education at the Law Center from 1977-84. From 1983-84, he served as chair of the Accreditation Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine. He has served as president of the American Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists, as deputy president of the International Association, and as President of the Jewish Law Association. He has also served as a director of the Foundation for Mideast Communication.

From 1985-87, he served as chair of the Georgetown Annual Fund. Earlier he had been chair of the Georgetown Law Fund. In 2002, he created the Sherman and Lucy Cohn Endowed Law Scholarship supporting law students with financial need. In 2016, the Georgetown University Alumni Association honored Professor Cohn with the James S. Ruby Faculty Appreciation Award, in recognition of his outstanding service and leadership.

Professor Cohn served as President of the National Acupuncture Foundation and as Chair of the boards of the Tai Hsuan Foundation and of the Maryland University of Integrative Health, formerly the Tai Sophia Institute. He also served as a trustee or board member for the Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Alliance; the Integrative Health Policy Consortium; the Council for Court Excellence, the Jewish Council for the Aging, and John Marshall Law School. Through the 2010’s, Prof. Cohn continued an active schedule of lectures, making appearances in Germany, Colombia, Russia, Korea, China, Japan, Paraguay, Ecuador, Israel, and Italy. In retirement, he resides in Bethesda, Maryland.