Early Career
Cohen was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, July 1, 1930, and spent his early years in Linden, New Jersey, the son of a local government attorney. Cohen received his B.A. degree from Yale University in 1951 where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa. Following graduation, he spent a year in France as a Fulbright scholar studying international relations before returning to Yale and earning his J.D. from Yale Law School in 1955. While at Yale, he served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Law Journal. From 1955–56 he clerked at the Supreme Court, first under Chief Justice Earl Warren and then under Justice Felix Frankfurter, who became godfather to Cohen's two oldest children.
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