Nina A. Kohn

Nina A. Kohn is a Visiting Professor of Law at Yale Law School, a Distinguished Professor of Law at Syracuse University, and the Board of Advisors Professor of Law at Syracuse University College of Law. She is also a faculty affiliate with the Syracuse University Aging Studies Institute, and a member of the American Law Institute, and a Distinguished Scholar in Elder Law with the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School.

Kohn’s research focuses on elder law and the civil rights of older adults and persons with diminished cognitive capacity. Her articles have addressed long-term care, supported and surrogate decision-making, abuse and exploitation of the elderly, discrimination in older age, and legal education. She is the author of "Elder Law: Practice, Policy & Problems" (Aspen, 3d. ed. 2024). In addition, Kohn has served in a variety of public interest roles, including as a reporter for both the Uniform Health Care Decisions Act and the Uniform Guardianship, Conservatorship, and Other Protective Arrangements Act.

Kohn clerked for the Honorable Fred I. Parker of the United States Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit. Following her clerkship, she was awarded a fellowship by the Skadden Fellowship Foundation to provide direct representation to nursing home residents and frail elders. She is a past recipient of Syracuse University College of Law’s Res Ipsa Loquitur award recognizing excellence in teaching, and Syracuse University’s Judith Greenberg Seinfeld Distinguished Faculty Fellowship.

She received her J.D., magna cum laude from Harvard Law School and her A.B., summa cum laude, from Princeton University.