George Mason School of Law

Lloyd Cohen
George Mason Law School
3301 Fairfax Drive
Arlington, VA 22201

703.993.8048 (w)

lcohen2@gmu.edu 

 

Professor Lloyd Cohen's Curriculum Vitae

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Education | Employment | Publications |
Special Awards |Teaching Interests

Education

EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW, J.D. with Honors (1983)

  • Class Standing: 2 of 220
  • Order of the Coif
  • John M. Olin Fellow in Law & Economics 1980-83, (tuition plus $10,000 per year stipend)
  • Articles Editor Emory Law Journal 1982-83
  • American Jurisprudence Awards: Torts, Civil Procedure, Evidence, Business Associations
  • Hansell Business Associations Award

SUNY-BINGHAMTON, M.A. (1973); Ph.D. (1976)

  • Field of Study: Economics
  • Student Assistantship 1970-74
  • Dissertation: Imperfect Knowledge, Decisionmaking and the Firm: A Theoretical Investigation of Efficient Reward Schemes

HARPUR COLLEGE, B.A. (1968)

  • Major: Economics

Employment History

Law Schools:

  • Professor (since 1999) George Mason University School of Law, Arlington, Virginia -- 8/94 - Present
  • Associate Professor Chicago-Kent College of Law, Chicago, Illinois -- 8/90 - 7/94
  • John M. Olin Research Fellow in Law & Economics, University of Chicago Law School, Chicago, Illinois -- 9/88 - 7/90
  • Associate Professor, California Western School of Law, San Diego, California -- 8/85-7/90 (on leave 8/88 - 7/90)

Economics Departments:

  • Associate Professor, C.W. Post College, Greenvale, New York -- 9/78 -- 6/80
  • Assistant Professor, Denison University, Granville, Ohio -- 9/76 -- 6/78
  • Assistant Professor, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta -- 7/75 -- 6/76
  • Assistant Professor, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario -- 7/74 -- 6/75

Non-Academic:

  • Special Counsel to Vice Chairman Susan W. Liebeler, U.S. International Trade Commission, Washington, D.C. -- 6/84-- 7/85
  • Law Clerk to The Honorable Gerald B. Tjoflat U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit Jacksonville, Florida -- 8/83 -- 6/84
  • Actuary and Computer Programmer, Home-Life Insurance Company, New York, New York -- 9/68 - 9/70

     


Publications

“The Israeli Lust For Peace,” ___ Israel Affairs ___ (October 2005) (forthcoming).

“Lifesharers.Com: An "Opting-In" Paradigm Already in Operation,” with Steve P. Calandrillo and David J. Undis, 4:4 The American Journal of Bioethics 17 (Fall 2004).

“Transplant Organs,” The Encyclopedia of Law and Society (2005) (forthcoming).

“__________, in Rethinking Commodification: Cases and Readings in Law and & Culture,” Martha Ertman and Joan Williams ed. (NYU Press 2004)(forthcoming).

“Germline Engineering: Whose Right?,” p. 270 in The Elgar Companion To The Economics of Property Rights, Enrico Colombatto ed.(Arthur Elgar 2004).

Straw Men, Fibs, and Other Academic Sins,” 67:1 Albany L. Rev. 285 (2003).

“Insider Trading: Searching for Similes,” 11 Annual Review of Law And Ethics 361 (2003).

Invidious Racial Discrimination in Admissions At Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology: Monty Python and Franz Kafka Meet A  Probit Regression,” 66:2 Albany L. Rev. 447(2003).

“The Lure Of The Lottery,” 36:3 Wake Forest L. Rev. 705 (2001).

“Ethical Protocols for Collecting DNA Samples? The Virtue of Traditional Economic/Legal Categories,” 10 Annual Review of Law And Ethics 57 (2002).

“Marriage: The Long-Term Contract,” p. 10 in The Law and Economics of Marriage & Divorce, Anthony W.Dnes & Robert Rowthorn ed. (Cambridge University Press 2002).

“Fixing The Race: Re-Engineering The Human Germline,” 9 Annual  Review of Law And Ethics 201 (2001).

“Multi-Jurisdiction Regulation of Germline Intervention: A Policy With Neither Virtue Nor Prospect of Success, p. 142 in Engineering The Human Germline: An Exploration Of The Science And Ethics Of Altering The Genes We Pass To Our Children,” Gregory Stock & John Campbell ed. (Oxford University Press 2000).

“The Human Genome Project and the Economics of Insurance: How  Increased Knowledge May Decrease Human Welfare, and What Not To Do About It,”  7 Annual Review of Law And Ethics 219 (1999).

“Increasing Supply, Improving Allocation, And Furthering Justice And Decency In Organ Acquisition And Allocation: The Many Virtues Of Markets,” 1:3 Graft 122 (July/August 1998).

“The Puzzling Phenomena Of Interest Rate Discounts On Auto Loans,” 27:2 J. of Legal Stud. 483 (1998).

“Tender Offers,” at p. 580 The New Palgrave Dictionary Of Economics And the Law, Peter Newman ed. (Stockton 1998).

“Holdouts,” at p. 236 The New Palgrave Dictionary Of Economics And the Law, Peter Newman ed. (Stockton 1998).

“Marriage As Contract,” at p. 618 The New Palgrave Dictionary Of Economics And the Law, Peter Newman ed. (Stockton 1998).

 


Special Awards

Prizes

1986 Lon Fuller Prize in Jurisprudence, Institute for Humane Studies

Fellowships

International Centre for Economic Research (ICER) Fellow, Torino, Italy, May - July 1998, July 2002

John M. Olin Research Fellow in Law & Economics, University of Chicago Law School, 1988-89, 1989-90

John M. Olin Fellow in Law & Economics, Emory University School of Law, 1980-83

Visiting Scholar

Endowed Chair in International Capital Market Law, International Center for Comparative Law and Politics, Graduate School of Law and Politics, University of Tokyo, Summer 1997

Institute of Law & Economics University of Hamburg, December 2004

Editor

SUPREME COURT ECONOMIC REVIEW

Board of Advisors

THE JOURNAL OF LAW, ECONOMICS, AND POLICY

Referee

THE JOURNAL OF LEGAL STUDIES

THE JOURNAL OF LAW AND ECONOMICS

THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS--LEGAL DIVISION

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LAW & ECONOMICS

THE INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF LAW AND ECONOMICS

REVIEW OF LAW AND ECONOMICS

LAW AND HISTORY REVIEW

NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION: LAW & SOCIAL SCIENCE PROGRAM

JURIMETRICS

THE JOURNAL OF LAW, MEDICINE & ETHICS

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS

STUDIES IN COMPARATIVE INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Television & Radio Appearances

The Bias Against Guns, CSPAN, Washington D.C. 4/15/04

Selling Organs, TEST OF FAITH, Visions Network, Toronto, Canada, 10/15/03

Is America Ready for Civil Unions, CAPITAL COMMENTARY, GMU TV, Fairfax Virginia, 9/26/03

Channel 9 News (Discussing LIFESHARERS) WUSA TV, Washington D.C., 2/25/03

Next on CNN (selling transplant organs), 2/23/03

FOX On Health Weekend (selling transplant organs) FOX TELEVISION NETWORK, New York, 8/22/98

Mid Morning (human cloning) MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO, St. Paul, 1/12/98

Conversations With Tom Clark (human cloning) WISCONSIN PUBLIC RADIO, Madison, 10/22/97

The Kathleen Dunn Show (selling transplant organs) WISCONSIN PUBLIC RADIO, Madison, 5/21/97

Conversations With Tom Clark (cloning) WISCONSIN PUBLIC RADIO, Madison, 3/14/97

Sensitivity, Free Speech, and Sports Commentary, Freedom Speaks, NATIONAL PUBLIC TELEVISION, 4/26/96

The Morning Program (creating a market in transplant organs) WNFL, Green Bay, 2/24/96

Action Line (creating a market in transplant organs) CJOB, Winnipeg, 2/22/96

Alberta Tonight (creating a market in transplant organs) QR77, Edmonton, 2/22/96

Conversations With Tom Clark (creating a market in transplant organs) WISCONSIN PUBLIC RADIO, Madison, 2/14/96

As It Happens (creating a market in transplant organs) CBC, Toronto, 2/13/96

The World Today (creating a market in transplant organs), CFRB, Toronto, syndicated within Canada, 2/12/96

The Ken & John Show (creating a market in transplant organs) KFI, Los Angeles, 2/9/96

The David Brenner Show (creating a market in transplant organs), WESTWOOD ONE, syndicated to 70 radio stations, 2/9/96

Talk Radio (creating a market in transplant organs), Ottawa, Canada, 2/9/96

The Dianne Rehm Show (creating a market in transplant organs), WAMU, Washington D.C., syndicated to 40 National Public Radio stations, 12/11/95

Sixty Minutes (creating a market in transplant organs), CBS Network, 11/27/95

Front & Center (debating increase in excise tax on cigarettes), CLTV, Chicago, 3/24/94

A Current Affair (creating a market in transplant organs), CHANNEL 9, Australia, 7/20/93

AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL RADIO (creating a market in transplant organs), 1/18/93 Radio Health Journal, (creating a market in transplant organs), syndicated to 108 stations, 11/29/92

Techno Politics, (debating proposed transplant organ market), WETA, Washington, syndicated to 175 television stations, 11/29/92

The Gil Gross Show, (creating a market in transplant organs), CBS, syndicated to 115 radio station, 10/22/92

The Bob Mohan Show, (creating a market in transplant organs), KFYI, Phoenix, 9/16/92

Midday, (creating a market in transplant organs), KIRO, Seattle, 9/10/92

American Medical Radio News, (creating a market in transplant organs), syndicated to 450 radio stations, 8/21/92

The Great Organ Bazaar, ASSIGNMENT, BBC Television, England, syndicated within the British Commonwealth, 6/23/92

Studio A, (sexual harassment), WBEZ, Chicago, 11/19/91

The Body Builders (creating a market in transplant organs), BY THE YEAR 2000, KCET, Los Angeles, 4/26/91

Should Rose Bird Be Reelected (debate), KPBS, San Diego, 10/26/86

Selected Speeches, Panels & Workshops

Alternative Commodification Schemes, Precious Commodities: The Supply and Demand of Body Parts, Chicago, Illinois 2005 Affirmative Action After Grutter & Gratz, Virginia Association of Scholars Annual Meeting, Charlottesville, Virginia, 2004

The Lure of the Lottery, Session on LOTTERIES Canadian Law & Economics Association Toronto, Ontario 2002

Invidious Racial Discrimination in Admissions At Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology: Monty Python and Franz Kafka Meet A Probit Regression, CONFRONTING REALITIES: THE LEGAL, MORAL, AND CONSTITUTIONAL ISSUES INVOLVING DIVERSITY, Albany Law School, Albany, New York, 2002

Political Power And Economic Liberty, International Center For Economic Research (ICER), Torino, Italy, 2000

Ethical Protocols for Collecting DNA Samples? The Virtue of Traditional Economic/Legal Categories, INTERNATIONAL GUIDELINES FOR GENETICS, Annual Review of Law & Ethics Symposium, Lutherstadt-Wittenberg, Germany, 2000

Restrictions On Genetically Engineering Children, HARD CASES IN GENETHICS, Annual Review of Law & Ethics Symposium, Memphis, 1999

Lotteries, Liberty and Legislatures, Georgetown University Law School, Law & Economics Workshop, 1998

The Human Genome Project, Annual Review of Law & Ethics Symposium, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany, 1998

Increasing The Supply of Transplant Organs: The Virtues of An Options Market, Memorial Society of Northern Virginia, 1997

Organ Donation: Facts & Controversy, INOVA Fair Oaks Hospital Bioethics Committee, 1997

Financial Barriers To Transplantation, NATIONAL POLICY FORUM ON MARROW DONATION AND TRANSPLANTATION HHS Division of Transplantation, 1997

Increasing Supply, Improving Allocation, and Furthering Justice and Decency in Organ Acquisition and Allocation: The Many Virtues of Markets, Plenary Session of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons and American Society of Transplant Physicians, 1997

The Economics of International Trade, THE U.S. AID SPONSORED TRAINING PROGRAM FOR GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS OF THE REPUBLIC OF UZBEKISTAN, 1996

Predicting Success in Law School: An Econometric Estimate, University of Indiana School of Law, 1996

An Options Market in Transplant Organs: A Reply to Fans and Critics, THE MEDICAL CENTER HOUR, University of Virginia, 1996

Increasing The Supply of Transplant Organs: The Virtues of an Options Market, MANDATED CHOICE AND FINANCIAL INCENTIVES: SHOULD WE TAKE ANOTHER LOOK? HHS Division of Transplantation 1996 Annual Meeting

The Efficiency/Equity Puzzle in Kidney Allocation, BIOTECHNOLOGICAL CHALLENGES FOR LAW AND ETHICS, Annual Review of Law and Ethics, Bellagio, Italy, 1995

Enhancing Collections, FORUM ON BLOOD SAFETY AND BLOOD AVAILABILITY, Institute of Medicine, 1995

NEW DIRECTIONS IN FAMILY LAW, University of Virginia School of Law, 1995

The Roots of the Anti-Gun Argument, Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Meetings, 1994

A Market Proposal To Improve Organ Availability, SIMPOSIO INTERNACIONAL: TRANSPLANTES HOY Y MANANA, Fundacion Ramon Areces, Madrid, Spain, 1994

The Law and Economics of Marriage and Divorce, American Law and Economics Meeting, 1993

Public Choice Of Organ Transplants, The Public Choice Society Meetings, 1993

A Futures Market In Cadaveric Organs: Would It Work?, REGULATED COMMERCIALISM OF VITAL ORGAN DONATION: A NECESSITY? Plenary Session Debate of the 14th International Congress of the Transplantation Society, Paris, France, 1992

The Public Trust Doctrine: An Economic Perspective, PROPERTY LAW SYMPOSIUM, Northwest Legal Foundation, 1992

Controversies In Organ Donation, American Kidney Foundation, 1992

The Organ Donor Shortage: Innovative Strategies-- Possible Solutions?, Plenary Session of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons and American Society of Transplant Physicians, 1991

The Ethical Virtues of a Market in Cadaveric Organs, European Society for Organ Transplantation & European Renal Association, Joint Conference on ETHICS, JUSTICE AND COMMERCE IN ORGAN REPLACEMENT THERAPY, Munich, Germany, 1990 AALS Section on Law, Medicine, and Health Care, 1990

Why Tender Offers?, George Mason University Law School, Law & Economics Workshop, 1989

The Economic Virtues of a Market in Cadaveric Organs, University of Chicago, Rational Models in the Social Sciences Workshop, 1989

Why Tender Offers?, University of Chicago Law School, Law & Economics Workshop, 1988

Western Economic Association Session on The Administration of Import Relief Laws In The United States, 1988

The Boesky Affair: Insider Trading and the Market For Corporate Control, San Diego Bar Association Business Law Section, 1987

Southern Economic Association Session on Law and Economics, 1982

Outside Counsel

Comments On New Jersey's Proposed Milk Rules, Center For Individual Rights, Washington D.C., June 1990

Other Honors And Activities

WHO'S WHO IN AMERICA WHO'S WHO IN AMERICAN LAW
WHO'S WHO IN EMERGING LEADERS IN AMERICA
2000 OUTSTANDING INTELLECTUALS OF THE 21ST CENTURY

Owner March 1997 to present ECONLAW (internet
law & economics discussion group)



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