Jean Camper Cahn
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Cahn, from a 1964 publication of the US Department of State | |
| Born | Jean Camper May 26, 1935 Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. |
| Died | January 2, 1991 (aged 55) Miami, Florida, U.S. |
| Education | Swarthmore College (BA) Yale University (LLB) |
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| Children | 2 |
Jean Camper Cahn (May 26, 1935 – January 2, 1991) was an American lawyer and social activist who helped establish federal financing of legal services to the poor. Cahn was the first director of the National Legal Services Program in the O.E.O. and later founded the Urban Law Institute at George Washington University. In 1971, she co-founded the Antioch School of Law (now the David A. Clarke School of Law at the University of the District of Columbia) with her husband and law associate Edgar S. Cahn.