MOMENTUM
In Memoriam Linda D. Anisman ’75
Jack A. Halprin ’94
Rafael G. Armijo ’83
Robert A. Hefner ’58
Vincent T. Bugliosi ’64
Tracy D. Johnson ’93
William E. Burby ’57
Andrew E. Katz ’72
Hillel Chodos ’61
Donn Kemble ’58
William Cohen ’56
David S. Lane ’66
James Di Giuseppe ’55
Mariana R. Pfaelzer ’57
Michael W. Emmick ’78
Leonard H. Pomerantz ’54
Ronald W. Fidler ’62
John H. Vaisey ’68
Marshall S. Freedman ’65
Sam V. Weir ’64
Michael R. Goodheart ’71
Wells K. Wohlwend ’57
F
ormer UCLA School of Law professor and UCLA Law alumnus William Cohen ’56, the C. Wendell and Edith M. Carlsmith professor of law emeritus at Stanford Law School, passed away on April 11, 2015, at age 81 after living with Parkinson’s disease for many years. Professor Cohen, a storied instructor of constitutional law, federal jurisdiction and torts, was a professor at UCLA Law and the University of Minnesota Law School before joining the Stanford Law School faculty in 1970. Professor Cohen devoted more than five decades to the study and teaching of constitutional law. He wrote or co-wrote five books (some of which appeared in multiple editions), as well as dozens of articles and essays. His casebook on constitutional law, coauthored with UCLA Law Professor Jonathan Varat and Vikram Amar, has given generations of law students a clear path through the court’s doctrinal thickets. He is survived by two daughters from his first marriage, Barbara Miron and Rebecca Cohen Porter, as well as Nancy Mahoney Cohen, whom he married in 1976; their daughter is Margaret Cohen Radu. The UCLA Law community mourns his passing.
William Cohen ’56 Former UCLA Law Professor FALL 2015 | UCLA LAW MAGAZINE 137