Jean Louise Cohen (born November 28, 1946) is the Nell and Herbert Singer Professor of Political Thought at Columbia University.
She served as Assistant Professor of Social Science at Bennington College from 1980-1983 and as Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley (1984) before coming to Columbia.
Cohen has been Associate Editor of the journals Telos, Constellations and Dissent.
Her current projects concern rethinking state and popular sovereignty in the epoch of globalization, as well as defending the law-making capacities of secular polities from religiously motivated legal pluralism.
Jean L. Cohen serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Council's journal, Ethics & International Affairs.