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Stephen M. Kohn
Stephen M. Kohn, Mr. Kohn one of the nation’s foremost experts in whistleblower protection law and the author of the first legal treatise on whistleblowing, Protecting Environmental and Nuclear Whistleblowers: A Litigation Manual (NIRS, 1985). In addition, he has authored or co-authored five additional books on whistleblower law: The Labor Lawyers Guide to the Rights and Responsibilities of Employee Whistleblowers (Greenwood Press, 1988), The Whistleblower Litigation Handbook (Wiley Law, 1991), Concepts and Procedures in Whistleblower Law (Greenwood Press, 2000) and Whistleblower Law: A Guide to Legal Protections for Corporate Employees (Praeger, 2004). Since 1984 Mr. Kohn has successfully represented whistleblowers in numerous cases (both at trial and on appeal), has testified in Congress on behalf of whistleblower reforms and worked directly with the staff of the Senate Judiciary Committee on drafting the Sarbanes-Oxley corporate whistleblower protections. Mr. Kohn has filed numerous quit tam claims on behalf of employees who disclosed government fraud, successfully litigated landmark precedents establishing employee rights under the First Amendment and has represented whistleblowers in the O.J Simpson case, the WorldTradeCenter bombing cases, the Oklahoma City bombing case and the Linda Tripp-Privacy Act case.
Prior to co-founding the NationalWhistleblowerCenter in 1988, he served as an Adjunct Professor and Clinical Supervisor at the Antioch School of Law (supervising a legal clinic on whistleblower protections) (1984-88) and served as the Clinical Director and Director of Corporate Litigation for the Government Accountability Project. In 2006 he was named the Northeastern University School of Law’s Daynard Public Interest Visiting Fellowship. Mr. Kohn has a J.D. from Northeastern University School of Law; an M.A. in Political Science from BrownUniversity; and a B.S. in Social Education from BostonUniversity. In addition to his books on whistleblower law, he is the author of Jailed for Peace (Greenwood Press, 1986) and American Political Prisoners (Praeger, 1994). He also serves as an Attorney-Trustee for the National Whistleblower Legal Defense and Education Fund and the Executive Director of the NationalWhistleblowerCenter.Mr. Kohn is licensed to practice law in the District if Columbia.
Other publications include:
Corporate Whistleblower Protection and Analysis, The Employee Advocate (Winter 2002/2003). Proving Motive in Whistleblower Cases, Trial (March 2002). Environmental Whistleblowers and the Eleventh Amendment: Employee Protection or State Immunity, 15 Tulane Environmental Law Journal 43 (Winter, 2001). Modern Trends in Protection of Employees under State Whistleblower Laws: A Model Statute, Vol. II, ALA National College of Advocacy Reference Materials, p. 1789 (Washington, D.C. 1998). The Crisis in Environmental Whistleblower Protection: Deficiencies in the Regulations Protecting Employees Who Disclose Violations of Environmental Laws or Testify in 'Citizen Suits', 2 New England Environmental Law Forum 1 (New England School of Law, 1995). The Fort Leavenworth General Strike, a chapter in Nonviolence in America: A Documentary History, Staughton and Alice Lynd, editors (Orbis Books, Maryknoll, N.Y. 1995). An Overview of Federal and State Whistleblower Protection, 4 Antioch Law Journal 99 (Summer, 1986). Nuclear Whistleblower Protection and the Scope of Protected Activity Under Section 210 of the Energy Reorganization Act, 4 Antioch Law Journal 73 (Summer, 1986). Conscientious Objection: A Constitutional Right, 21 New England Law Review 545 (1986)(co-author, the Hon. Frederick L. Brown, Associate Justice, Massachusetts Court of Appeals). Human Rights and Freedom of Conscience in Administrative Law: A Critique of the Fugitive Slave Act and the Selective Service Act Through Use of the Liberty Fact Doctrine, 61 University of Detroit Journal of Urban Law 177 (Winter, 1984)(co-author, the Hon. Frederick L. Brown, Associate Justice, Massachusetts Court of Appeals). Whistleblowing and Environmental Protection, a contribution in the Macmillan Guide to Pollution (Macmillan Reference, N.Y. 2002-03).
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