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Public Interest Program Faculty

Professor David S. Cohen

David S. Cohen

David S. Cohen’s scholarship explores the intersection of constitutional law and gender, emphasizing how the law impacts abortion provision, including violence against abortion providers, as well as sex segregation and masculinity. He also researches voting anomalies in the Supreme Court.

Professor Cohen published his co-authored Oxford University Press book Living in the Crosshairs: The Untold Stories of Anti-Abortion Terrorism in 2015.  The book examines how abortion providers are individually targeted by anti-abortion extremists and how law can better respond to this type of harassment.


Dean Daniel M. Filler

Daniel M. Filler

Dean Daniel Filler was an inaugural faculty member of the Kline School of Law, helping design and implement the distinctive vision that drives the law school.  He became dean of Kline Law in January 2017.  He previously served as a professor of law at the University of Alabama School of Law.


Professor Anil Kalhan

Anil Kalhan

Professor Kalhan’s scholarly and teaching interests lie in the areas of immigration law, U.S. and comparative constitutional law, international human rights law, privacy and surveillance, criminal law, and law and South Asian studies.


Professor Rachel Lopez

Rachel E. Lopez

Professor Rachel Lopez focuses her scholarship on state responsibility for mass abuse, transitional justice, and the carceral state. Her articles have appeared or are forthcoming in well-regarded law journals, such as the Northwestern Law Review, Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, NYU Journal of International Law and Politics, and University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law.