Neil B. Cohen
Constitutional Law
Contracts
International Business Law
Articles & Essays
The Private International Law of Secured Transactions: Rules in Search of Harmonization, 81 Law and Contemporary Problems 203 (2018)
Freedom of Contract vs. Free Alienability: An Old Struggle Emerges in a New Context, 46 Gonzaga Law Review 353 (2011) (with William Henning)
Resolving the Dilemma of Nonjusticiable Causation in Failure-to-Warn Litigation, 84 Southern California Law Review 125 (2010) (with Aaron Twerski)​
Should UNCITRAL Prepare a Model Law on Secured Transactions?, 15 Uniform Law Review 325 (2010)
The Calamitous Law of Notes, 68 Ohio State Law Journal 161 (2007)
Issues Raised by Non-Uniform Enactment of UCC Articles, 38 Uniform Commercial Code Law Journal 21 (2006) (co-author: E.E. Smith)
Taking Pop-Ups Seriously: The Jurisprudence of the Infield Fly Rule, 82 Washington University Law Quarterly (2004) (co-author: S.W. Waller)
The Gatekeeping Role in Civil Litigation and the Abdication of Legal Values in Favor of Scientific Values, 33 Seton Hall Law Review 943 (2003)
Taking Democracy Seriously, 52 Hastings Law Journal 667 (2001)
Introduction: Symposium: Software as a Commodity: International Licensing of Intellectual Property, 26 Brooklyn Journal of International Law 3 (2000)
International Secured Transactions and Revised UCC Articles 9, 74 Chicago-Kent Law Review 1191 (1999) (with E.E. Smith)
Internationalizing the Law of Secured Credit, 20 University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Economic Law 423 (1999)
The Second Revolution in Informed Consent: Comparing Physicians to Each Other, 94 Northwestern University Law Review 1 (1999) (with A.D. Twerski)
Harmonizing the Law Governing Secured Credit: The Next Frontier, 33 Texas International Law Journal 173 (1998)
Credit Enhancement in Domestic Transactions: Conceptualizing the Devices and Reinventing the Law, 22 Brooklyn Journal of International Law 21 (1996)
Subrogation: A Further Probing, 10(3) Letters of Credit Report 5 (Jan. 1995)
Drafting Commercial Law for the New Millennium: Will the Current Process Suffice?, 26 Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review 551 (1993) (with B. Zaretsky)
Hidden Suretyship Issues in Revised Articles 3, 1993 Commerce Law Annual 207 (1993)
Striking the Balance: The Evolving Nature of Suretyship Defenses, 34 William and Mary Law Review 1025 (1993)
"Comparing Medical Provider Performance: A First Look at the New Era of Medical Statistics," 58 Brook. L. Rev. 5 (1992) (co-author: A.D. Twerski)
Suretyship Principles in the New Articles 3: Clarifications and Substantive Changes, 42Â Alabama Law Review 595 (1991)
Informed Decision-Making and the Law of Torts: The Myth of Justiciable Causation, 1988 University of Illinois Law Review 607 (1989) (with A.D. Twerski), reprinted in 12 Journal of Products Liability 133 (1989)
Conceptualizing Proof and Calculating Probabilities: A Response to Professor Kaye, 73 Cornell Law Review 78 (1987)
The Costs of Acceptability: Blue Buses, Agent Orange, and Aversion to Statistical Evidence, 66 Boston University Law Review 563 (1986)
Confidence in Probability: Burdens of Persuasion in a World of Imperfect Knowledge, 60 New York University Law Review 385 (1985)
Judgments: Accounts Receivable Financing and Voidable Preferences under the New Bankruptcy Code, 66 Minnesota Law Review 639 (1982)
Allstate Insurance Co. v. Hague, 37 Preview of United States Supreme Court Cases 4 (May 1980) (with A. Bulbulia)
Books Review, 10 Seton Hall Law Review 981 (1980) (reviewing J. White & R. Summers, Handbook of the Law Under the Uniform Commercial Code, 2d ed.)
Sex Discrimination: Social Security Benefits, 1976 Annual Survey of American Law 81 (1976)
Books
Choice of Law: Cases and Materials for a Short Course on Conflict of Laws (2023) (with A. Twerski)
Contracts: Cases and Materials (10th ed. 2023) (with E.A. Farnsworth, C. Sanger, R. Brooks and L. Garvin)
Selections for Contracts (2023) (with E.A. Farnsworth, W. Young, C. Sanger, and R. Brooks)
Selections for Contracts (Foundation Press, 2011 2015 and 2016) (with others)
Contracts: Â Cases and Materials (Foundation Press, 7th ed. 2008) (with others)
Maintaining Perfection Beyond June 30, 2006 of Security Interests Created and Perfected by Filing Under Former Articles 9 (Report of the Permanent Editorial Board for the Uniform Commercial Code)(2005)
Effect of Non-Uniform Scope Provisions in Revised Articles 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code (Report of the Permanent Editorial Board for the Uniform Commercial Code) (2004)
9B & 9C Uniform Commercial Code Series: Revised Article 9, Secured Transactions (2001) (with others)
Uniform Commercial Code. Article 1: Revision Drafts (1997-2000) (Reporter) (2000)
Restatement of the Law, Third: Suretyship and Guaranty (Reporter) (1996)
Baseball and the American Legal Mind (Garland Publishing, 1995) (with others)
Commercial Law and Practice Guide (Matthew Bender, 1991, annual supplement 1992-1996)
Contributions to Books
Reflections on Misgivings About a Model Law, in International and Comparative Secured Transactions Law (Spyridon Bazinas & Orkun Akseli eds., 2017)
What If There Were No Written Constitution and Bill of Rights (with others), in What If the American Political System were Different? (M.E. Sharp, 1992)
Breach by Seller and Lessor of Goods, in Commercial Damages: A Guide to Remedies in Business Litigation (Matthew Bender, 1987, annual suppl. 1988-1992)
Other
Secured Transactions Law in Jamaica, A Report to the Organization of American States and the Ministry of Industry, Investment and Commerce of the Government of Jamaica
Comparison and Analysis of Major Features of International Instruments Relating to Secured Transactions, U.N. Document A/CN.9/720, )adopted July 2011 by the U.N. Commission on International Trade Law) (with S. Weise)
Popular Press
Run Baseball Just Like Any Other Business? That's the Last Thing the Owners Should Want, 13(2) Elysian Fields Quarterly, the Baseball Review 10 (Jan. 1994) (with S. W. Waller)
Commercial Law (monthly column), New York Law Journal, 1986 - 2005 (co-author: G. McLaughlin)