David S. Cohen, a constitutional law and gender issues expert and a professor at the Earle Mack School of Law at Drexel University in Philadelphia, is available to comment on the Boy Scouts of America's reaffirmation today of their policy banning gay leaders.

Professor Cohen's publications include articles in the Harvard Journal of Law and Gender, George Washington Law Review, Indiana Law Journal, Boston University Law Review, the South Carolina Law Review and the Columbia Journal of Gender and Law. His previous scholarship looked at Title IX protections against sex discrimination as well as race in the criminal justice system.

Professor Cohen received his J.D. from Columbia University School of Law, where he was named a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and received the Public Interest Commitment Award and two Columbia Human Rights Fellowships. He was managing editor of the Columbia Human Rights Law Review and articles editor of the Columbia Journal of Gender and Law.