David Cohen has taught at the University of California, Berkeley since 1979 as Professor for the Humanities and is the founding Director of the Berkeley War Crimes Studies Center. Since 2000, he has collaborated on human rights projects in Asia with the East-West Center in Honolulu, a federally funded Asia-Pacific research center. There he serves as Director of the Asian International Justice Initiative and as Senior Fellow in International Law. He is also a Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University since 2009.