Mathilde Cohen

Mathilde Cohen is the George Williamson Crawford Professor of Law at the University of Connecticut, currently on leave. She holds degrees from Columbia University School of Law (LLM & JSD) and Sorbonne-École Normale Supérieure (BA & MA) and has expertise spanning constitutional law, comparative law, food law, and gender/race studies.

• Education: LLM & JSD, Columbia University School of Law; BA & MA, Sorbonne-École Normale Supérieure
• Previous roles: Associate-in-Law at Columbia Law School, Research Fellow at CNRS (French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)
• Current research focuses on disenfranchisement in French and U.S. legal cultures, and the gendered/racialized dynamics of bodily materials like human milk and placentas.

Her work bridges constitutional law, gender studies, and food policy, with a comparative legal framework. During the 2020-21 academic year, she was a Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellow at Princeton University.

• Scientific Awards: Hessel Yntema Prize (2015)

Professor Cohen’s interdisciplinary scholarship explores how public institutions justify decisions and represent marginalized groups, alongside bodily autonomy and legal commodification.