Jacob Katz Cogan earned his JD from the Yale Law School, his MA and PhD from Princeton University, and his BA, magna cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania. At Yale he was an articles editor of the Yale Law Journal and an executive editor of the Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities. After law school, Professor Cogan clerked for Judge Sandra Lynch of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. He then held fellowships at the New York University School of Law and the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Professor Cogan has also held appointments as a visiting assistant professor of law at the University of Chicago Law School and as the assistant director of the Yale Law School's Global Constitutionalism Project.
Immediately prior to joining the College of Law, Professor Cogan worked as an attorney-adviser in the Office of the Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State. At State, Professor Cogan counseled policymakers in the areas of law enforcement and intelligence, United Nations affairs, and international claims and investment disputes. He also served as counsel for the United States before the International Court of Justice and the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal and worked on cases at all levels of the U.S. federal courts. He is a recipient the Department’s Superior Honor Award.
Professor Cogan’s research focuses on the constitution of international organization. He is particularly interested in the informal and operational dimensions of international decision processes and contemporary changes in and challenges to the character and organization of the international legal system. His publications include articles and essays in the American Journal of International Law, the Human Rights Quarterly, the Virginia Journal of International Law, and the Yale Journal of International Law. He is the co-organizer of an April 2009 conference in honor of Professor Michael Reisman of the Yale Law School and is co-editing a book in Professor Reisman’s honor.
Professor Cogan is an elected member of the American Law Institute, a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and Vice-Chair and Co-Chair-Elect of the American Society of International Law’s International Organizations Interest Group. He edits the International Law Reporter, a blog on scholarship, events, and ideas in international law, international relations, and foreign affairs law that was named “best blog of 2008” by the OGEMID listserv.
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Jacob was promoted to Associate Professor of Law.
Jacob published Representation and Power in International Organization: The Operational Constitution and Its Critics, 103 Am. J. Int’l L. 209 (2009). Two of his articles were cited:
The Provost has approved Jacob’s promotion to Associate Professor, effective September 1, 2009.
Jacob posted his forthcoming article, Representation and Power in International Organization: The Operational Constitution and Its Critics, 103 Am. J. Int’l L. ___ (2009), on SSRN.
Jacob co-organized and attended a Yale Law School conference on Realistic Idealism in International Law: A Conference in Honor of W. Michael Reisman. His article, Competition and Control in International Adjudication, 48 Va. J. Int’l L. 411 (2008), was cited in Laurence R. Helfer, Karen J. Alter, & M. Florencia Guerzovich, Islands of Effective International Adjudication: Constructing an Intellectual Property Rule of Law in the Andean Community, 103 Am. J. Int'l L. 1 (2009).
Jacob’s article, Representation and Power in International Organization: The Operational Constitution and Its Critics, was accepted for publication in the American Journal of International Law, the peer-review journal of the American Society of International Law. He was elected Vice-Chair and Co-Chair-Elect of the International Organizations Interest Group of the American Society of International Law.
Jacob served as a Commentator for the Junior International Law Scholars Association Conference at Temple. His article, Competition and Control in International Adjudication, 48 Va. J. Int’l L. 411 (2008), was cited in Dinah Shelton, Form, Function, and the Powers of International Courts, 9 Chi. J. Int'l L. 537 (2009).
The members of the OGEMID listserv voted Jacob’s blog, the International Law Reporter, as their Best Blog of 2008. He acted as the discussant at a faculty workshop at the College by Peter Spiro (Temple) on An International Law of Citizenship as part of the College’s Faculty Workshop Series.
Jacob’s article, Competition and Control in International Adjudication, 48 Va. J. Int’l L. 411 (2008), was cited in Evan P. Lestelle, The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, International Norms of Foreign Public Bribery, and Extraterritorial Jurisdiction, 83 Tul. L. Rev. 527 (2008).
Jacob’s article, The Look Within: Property, Capacity, and Suffrage in Nineteenth-Century America, 107 Yale L.J. 473 (1997), was cited in Jason Wisecup, Resident Alien Voting Rights in a Postmodern World, 27 Chicana/o-Latina/o L. Rev. 149 (2008).
Jacob offered a Practice View on International Law.
Jacob Cogan has signed a book contract with Martinus Nijhoff Publishers for Looking to the Future: Essays in Honor of W. Michael Reisman (with Mahnoush H. Arsanjani, Robert D. Sloane, & Siegfried Wiessner).
Jacob presented Representation and Power in International Organization: The Operational Constitution and Its Critics at Georgetown as part of its International Legal Theory Colloquium.
Jacob's article, Competition and Control in International Adjudication, 48 Va. J. Int'l L. 411 (2008), was cited in David Zaring, Rulemaking and Adjudication in International Law, 46 Colum. J. Transnat'l L. 563 (2008).
The Provost has approved Jacob's reappointment as Assistant Professor of Law for a term of three years.
Jacob presented Representation and Power in International Organization: The Current Constitutional Crisis as part of the 12th Annual UC Faculty Summer Scholarship Series.
Jacob's article, Competition and Control in International Adjudication, 48 Va. J. Int'l L. 411 (2008), was cited in David Zaring, Rulemaking and Adjudication in International Law, 46 Colum. J. Transnat'l L. 563 (2008).
Jacob's blog post, Ecuador's Notification Pursuant to Article 25(4) of the ISCID Convention, International Law Reporter (Dec. 16, 2007), was cited in Kevin T. Jacobs & Matthew G. Paulson, The Convergence of Renewed Nationalization, Rising Commodities, and "Americanization" in International Arbitration and the Need for More Rigorous Legal and Procedural Defenses, 43 Tex. Int'l L.J. 359 (2008).
Jacob's article, International Criminal Courts and Fair Trials: Difficulties and Prospects, 27 Yale J. Int'l L. 111 (2002), was cited in Wayne A. Logan, Confronting Evil: Victims' Rights in an Age of Terror, 96 Geo. L.J. 721 (2008).
Jacob presented Representation and Power in International Organization: The Current Constitutional Crisis at Boston College Law School and Cumberland School of Law, Samford University. He was quoted in Supreme Court Decision on Treaty Rights Prompts Sharp Debate Among Legal Experts, BNA Daily Report for Executives, March 28, 2008.
Jacob's article, Noncompliance and the International Rule of Law, 31 Yale J. Int'l L. 189 (2006), was cited in Laurence R. Helfer, Nonconsensual International Lawmaking, 2008 U. Ill. L. Rev. 71.
Jacob published Competition and Control in International Adjudication, 48 Va. J. Int'l L. 411 (2008). The article was the subject of an online symposium on the Opinio Juris blog, with commentary by Larry Helfer (Vanderbilt) and Monica Hakimi (Cardozo). See also Jacob's Introduction and Reply.
Jacob's article, International Criminal Courts and Fair Trials: Difficulties and Prospects, 27 Yale J. Int'l L. 111 (2002), was cited in Douglas Donoho, Human Rights Enforcement in the Twenty-First Century, 35 Ga. J. Int'l & Comp. L. 1 (2006), and in Aparna Sridhar, The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia's Response to the Problem of Transnational Abduction, 42 Stan. J. Int'l L. 343 (2006).
Jacob provided commentary on a lecture by Eugene Kontorovich (Chicago) on The Quasi-Legality of Israel's Annexation of the Golan Heights & Occupation of the West Bank, hosted by the Federalist Society.
Jacob attended the AALS Faculty Recruitment Conference in Washington, D.C. as a member of the College's Faculty Appointments Committee
Jacob participated in the Alumni Teach-In Day, as Rick Landrun (Class of 1993), Kroger Co. (Cincinnati, OH), and Lori Landrum (Class of 1993), Frost Brown Todd (Cincinnati, OH), taught his Contracts Class.
Jacob's article, International Criminal Courts and Fair Trials: Difficulties and Prospects, 27 Yale J. Int'l L. 111 (2002), was cited in Gregory S. Gordon, Toward An International Criminal Procedure: Due Process Aspirations and Limitations, 45 Colum. J. Transnat'l L. 635 (2007).
Jacob presented Competition and Control in International Adjudication at the AALS—American Society of International Law Joint Conference in Vancouver. His article, International Criminal Courts and Fair Trials: Difficulties and Prospects, 27 Yale J. Int'l L. 111 (2002), was cited in Gregory S. Gordon, Toward an International Criminal Procedure: Due Process Aspirations and Limitations, 45 Colum. J. Transnat'l L. 635 (2007).
Cincinnati thus enjoys a large legal blogosphere presence in raw terms and an even larger presence on a per capita basis-nearly 25% of our tenured and tenure-track faculty now blog.
Jacob published International Decision, Prosecutor v. Milutinovic et al., Decisions on Requests of the United States of America and the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation for Review, 101 Am. J. Int'l L. 163 (2007).
Jacob's article, Competition and Control in International Adjudication, was accepted for publication in the Virginia Journal of International Law. He presented the article at Indiana-Bloomington as part of the College's Scholar Exchange Program. The article was selected for a works-in-progress panel at the Association of American Law Schools-American Society of International Law Joint Conference on International Law: What Is Wrong with the Way We Teach and Write International Law in Vancouver, Canada, in June.
Jacob presented Competition and Control in International Adjudication at the University of Georgia School of Law's International Law Colloquium.
Jacob's essay, Noncompliance and the International Rule of Law, Yale J. Int'l L. 189 (2006), was one of five papers chosen for the international law blog Opinio Juris's inaugural online symposium for junior scholars. The commentator on Jacob's paper was Joost Pauwelyn (Duke), and Jacob wrote a reply to the commentary.
Jacob's article, International Criminal Courts and Fair Trials: Difficulties and Prospects, 27 Yale J. Int'l L. 111 (2002), was cited in Douglas Donoho, Human Rights Enforcement in the Twenty-First Century, 35 Ga. J. Int'l & Comp. L. 1 (2006), and in Aparna Sridhar, The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia's Response to the Problem of Transnational Abduction, 42 Stan. J. Int'l L. 343 (2006).
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