In Memoriam: Prof. Lloyd R. Cohen

Prof. Lloyd R. Cohen died on September 29. He had been ill, but he had recovered and attended the first faculty of the meeting of the semester, so his death came as somewhat of a surprise to the Scalia Law Community.

Prof. Cohen published scholarship on a variety of applications of economics to law, including a market in transplant organs, marriage and divorce, wrongful death, tender offers, and free riders and holdouts. He taught courses in Corporations, Estates and Trusts, Jurisprudence, and Law and Economics.

A fixture of the Law School faculty for nearly 30 years, Prof. Cohen previously taught law at IIT Chicago Kent College of Law and was a John M. Olin Research Fellow at the University of Chicago. He served as a special counsel to the U.S. International Trade Commission and as a law clerk to Judge Gerald B. Tjoflat of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Before attending law school, he was an economics professor.

Prof. Cohen earned his B.A. from Harpur College (1968); M.A. (1973) and Ph.D. (1976) from the State University of New York, Binghamton; and J.D. from Emory University (1983).