Nina Kohn

Nina A. Kohn is a Visiting Professor at Cornell Law School. She is also a Distinguished Professor of Law at Syracuse University College of Law, and a Distinguished Scholar in Elder Law with Yale Law School’s Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy, and a member of the American Law Institute. She has served as a Visiting Professor at Yale Law School.

Kohn is a leading expert in elder law, advance planning and medical consent, and the civil rights of older adults and those with limited cognitive capacity. A prolific writer, her articles have appeared in such diverse fora as the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, the Boston University Law Review, the Georgetown University Law Review Online, and the Washington Post. She is the author of Elder Law: Practice, Policy & Problems (Wolters Kluwer, 3d ed. 2024) and co-author of Torts: Cases, Problems, and Exercises (Carolina Press, 7th ed. 2026). Her newest book, Aging While Female: The Untold Story of Growing Older, Gender, and Law in America (co-authored with Naomi Cahn), will be published this winter by Oxford University Press.

Kohn has served in numerous public interest roles, including as Reporter for the Uniform Health Care Decisions Act and the Uniform Guardianship, Conservatorship, and Other Protective Arrangements Act.

Professor Kohn earned an A.B. summa cum laude from Princeton University and a J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard University. She clerked for the Honorable Fred I. Parker of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.