Neil B. Cohen

The Council of the American Law Institute (ALI) has voted to present Neil B. Cohen, the Jeffrey D. Forchelli Professor of Law, with the John Minor Wisdom Award.  The award, which has been presented only a half-dozen times since its creation in 1990, will be conferred during the ALI Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday May 20, 2014.

Professor Neil B. Cohen is well-known in the field of contracts and commercial law, having co-authored one of the leading contracts casebooks and written numerous law review articles on these subjects.

On November 14, the Permanent Editorial Board for the Uniform Commercial Code (PEB) issued its report, “Application of the Uniform Commercial Code to Selected Issues Relating to Mortgage Notes.

Professor Neil Cohen will present in a live teleconference and audio webcast on the latest round of UCC Article 9 revisions. The program is sponsored by the ABA Business Law Section and the ABA Center for Continuing Legal Education. Professor Cohen will be joined by experts from major law firms around the country.

On July 10, 2007, Professor Neil Cohen spoke at the UNCITRAL Congress on Modern Law for Global Commerce in Vienna, Austria. UNCITRAL is the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law. The U.N. established the Commission in 1966 in recognition that disparities in national laws governing international trade created obstacles to the flow of trade, and it regarded the Commission as the vehicle by which the United Nations could play a more active role in reducing or removing these obstacles. The Congress in Vienna was held in celebration of the Commission’s 40th anniversary.