A magna cum laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Professor Cogan received his M.A. and Ph.D. from Princeton University and his J.D. from the Yale Law School, where he was articles editor of the Yale Law Journal and 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 Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and the New York University School of Law. Professor Cogan has also held appointments as a visiting assistant professor of law at the University of Chicago Law School and 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.

Professor Cogan is the editor of the International Law Reporter, a blog on scholarship, events, and ideas in international law, international relations, and foreign affairs law.

In 2008-2009, Professor Cogan is teaching Contracts (fall semester), Public International Law (fall semester), and International Business Transactions (spring semester).

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Recent Publications

• Competition and Control in International Adjudication, 48 Virginia Journal of International Law 411 (2008).
• International Decision, Prosecutor v. Milutinović et al., Decisions on Requests of the United States of America and the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation for Review, 101 American Journal of International Law 163 (2007).
• Noncompliance and the International Rule of Law, 31 Yale Journal of International Law 189 (2006).
• International Criminal Courts and Fair Trials: Difficulties and Prospects, 27 Yale Journal of International Law 111 (2002).
• The Problem of Obtaining Evidence for International Criminal Courts, 22 Human Rights Quarterly 404 (2000).
• Note, The Look Within: Property, Capacity, and Suffrage in Nineteenth-Century America, 107 Yale Law Journal 473 (1997).
• 1846 Petition for Woman's Suffrage, New York State Constitutional Convention, 22 Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 427 (1997) (with Lori D. Ginzberg).