Laurie S. Kohn

Laurie S. Kohn is Jeffrey & Martha Kohn Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. From 2024 – 2025, she served as the Senior Associate Dean for Academic Development, Graduate Programs, and Online Learning, where she oversaw the launch of GW’s Bar Success Program. From 2019 – 2025, Dean Kohn served as the Jacob Burns Foundation Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs. She currently directs the Family Justice Litigation Clinic and the Access to Justice Clinic, which she launched in 2022. Before joining the GW Law faculty in 2010, Dean Kohn was Co-Director of the Domestic Violence Clinic at Georgetown University Law Center.

Prior to entering academia, Dean Kohn was an associate at the DC law firm of Crowell & Moring where she specialized in medical malpractice and insurance coverage litigation. Before entering private practice, Dean Kohn focused on disability rights, assisting in the legislative phase of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in the late Senator Edward M. Kennedy’s office, and later in the regulatory drafting and implementation phase of the ADA in the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice. Dean Kohn also worked at the Legislative Office of the American Civil Liberties Union, focusing on reproductive rights and disability policy.

Dean Kohn serves as a hearing commissioner in police misconduct cases for the DC Office of Police Complaints and as a mediator with the DC Superior Court’s Family Court ADR Program. In addition, she is the former Chair of the Steering Committee of the DC Bar Family Law Section. At DC Superior Court, Dean Kohn is a member of the Family Court Domestic Relations Rules Committee, the Domestic Relations Advisory Committee, and the Family Court Training Committee. Dean Kohn writes and speaks on family law, restorative justice, domestic violence, and clinical pedagogy. Dean Kohn attended Harvard College and received her JD and LLM degrees from Georgetown University Law Center.