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Entertainment & Sports

Feb. 24, 2023

Where's My Roy Cohn? (2019), and Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn (2020)

Cohn’s disgraceful legal career is well chronicled in both documentaries. He was a master manipulator of the press and scorned all ethical constraints.

Michael Asimow

Professor
UCLA School of Law

Email: asimow@law.ucla.edu

Michael is Dean's Executive professor of law at Santa Clara Law School, teaching contracts as well as law and popular culture.

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Paul Bergman

Professor Emeritus
UCLA School of Law

Email: bergman@law.ucla.edu

Paul continues teaching evidence.

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Why watch? Lawyers need to know more about the career of Roy Cohn, one of the most evil and revolting lawyers in American history.

These documentaries chronicle the life and times of Roy Cohn (1927-1986). Where's My Roy Cohn (directed by Ken Auletta) concentrates on Cohn's role in the McCarthy hearings, his fraudulent business ventures, his relationship to Donald Trump, and his disbarment. $95

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