Bio:

Hyman Cohen was a long-time faculty member, and interim dean, at CSU College of Law. Prof. Cohen began his career, after graduating from New York University School of Law with his JD and LLM, in private practice. He worked at the regional Housing and Urban Development office in New York City and taught Business Law at Pace College. Prof. Cohen joined the CSU|LAW faculty in 1967, teaching torts, administrative law, labor law, labor law in the public sector, and labor arbitration. He served as interim dean for two years, when he encouraged the school’s “truly outstanding faculty” to persevere in the research, academic programs, and other activities in which they were engaged. Prof. Cohen was also a Labor Arbitrator and a decades-long member of the National Academy of Arbitrators. He was Chair of the Labor Law Section of Greater Cleveland Bar Association, Chair of the Labor Advisory Council of Cleveland American Arbitration Association, and served on Labor Arbitration Panels of Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service of the National Mediation Board. Prof. Cohen continued to serve as an Adjunct Professor for five years after retirement and remained a frequent lecturer on labor arbitration. He is a member of the CSU|LAW Hall of Fame.