ABOUT
— Professor of Law, Milk Factory Series, Corinne Botz, 2021.
EN
Mathilde Cohen is a Professor of Law at the University of Connecticut. She is a graduate of the École normale supérieure and the Sorbonne in Paris, as well as Columbia University in New York.
Mathilde is also, and fundamentally, a mother. Her research focuses on understudied, embodied phenomena—such as eating, lactation, and placenta consumption—that directly impact the health and safety of parents and children.
Mathilde examines these topics at the intersection of constitutional law, food law, health law, philosophy, and the social sciences. Her transatlantic legal background is at the origin of publications in comparative law, highlighting the varying degrees of inclusion and exclusion in French and U.S. courts and legal cultures.
This approach has led her to ask essential questions about the regulation of food and body fluids. Questions that she hopes will inspire lawmakers to enact new policies that better protect and empower the people that rely on these nourishments.
To encourage the normalization of lactation in the public sphere, she is supporting the design of inclusive syllabi so that student who are also parents can find the support they need within the academic setting.
LLM & JSD, Columbia University School of Law, Fulbright scholar.
BA & MA, La Sorbonne - École Normale Supérieure.
Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellow, Princeton University, 2020-21.
Hessel Yntema Prize, the American Society of Comparative Law, 2015.
Research fellow at the CNRS, Paris, France (en détachement).
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