Mathilde Cohen

Associate-in-Law

Office: Columbia Law School
435 W 116 Street, JGH 509
New York NY 10027
Tel: 212-854-2722
Email: mc2430@columbia.edu
EDUCATION
  • J.S.D. (2009), Columbia Law School (Finkelstein Fellow, Head Articles Editor, Columbia Journal of European Law, 2008)
  • LL.M., (2005) Columbia Law School (James Kent Scholar, Fulbright Scholar)
  • LL.B., (2004) Sorbonne 
  • M.A., Philosophy, (2004) Sorbonne and École Normale Supérieure
  • B.A., Philosophy, (2001) Sorbonne and École Normale Supérieure
TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
  • Jurisprudence
  • Legal Theory
  • Civil Procedure
  • Immigration Law
  • Administrative Law
  • Comparative and International Law
  • European Law
PUBLICATIONS

The Social Epistemology of Public Institutions, in NEW WAVES IN PHILOSOPHY OF LAW (Maksymilian del Mar, ed., Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming 2011). 

Reasons for Reasons
, in Approaches to Legal Rationality 119 (Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science Springer Series Vol. 20) (Dov M. Gabbay et al, eds., forthcoming 2010).

Sincerity and Reason Giving:  When May Legal Decision-Makers Lie? 59 DePaul L. Rev. 1091 (2010).

The Rule of Law as the Rule of Reasons, 96 Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie 1 (2010).  Winner, Young Scholar Prize.  2009 IVR World Congress, Beijing, China. (trans. Chinese. 22 PEKING U. L. J. 354 (2010)).

Reason Giving in Court Practice:  Decision-Makers at the Crossroads, 14 Colum. J. Eur. L. 257 (2008).

 
EUROPEAN LEGAL PUBLICATIONS

L’épreuve orale. Les magistrats administratifs face aux audiences de reconduite à la frontière [The Oral Trial. French Administrative Judges Faced With Deportation Hearings], 72 Droit et Société 387 (2009).

L’unité de la justification à l’épreuve de la justification juridique [Justificatory Unification and Legal Justification], in L’Unité des Sciences Nouvelles Perspectives 91, (Thierry Martin, ed., 2009).

Du justiciable à l’acteur du droit: la perception de la justice aux États-Unis [From Litigant to Legal Actor: Perceptions of Justice in the United States], 31 Recherche, Droit, et Justice (2008).

 
BIO

Lecturer-in-Law  [Moniteur], Paris X School of Law (September 2005-September 2007); Allocation de Recherche [Dissertation Writing Fellowship from the French Ministry of Education] (September 2005 —August 2008); Member of the New York Bar (2006); France-Fulbright Association Award (2004); Agrégation in Philosophy (2003).