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
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. (2008), 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:
  •   Legal Theory
  •   Immigration Law
  •   Administrative Law
  •   Comparative and International Law
  •   European Law
  •   Constitutional Law


PUBLICATIONS
  •  “Sincerity and Reason Giving:  When May Legal Decision-Makers Lie?” DePaul Law Review, Vol. 59-4, (forthcoming spring 2010).
  •   “Giving Reasons in Court Practice:  Decision-Makers at the Crossroads,” Columbia Journal of European Law, Vol. 14.2, 257-276 (2008).
  •   “Reasons for Reasons,” forthcoming in Argumentation, Logic and Law, a volume of the Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science series published by Kluwer-Springer, edited by Patrice Canivet, Jacques Dubucs, Shahid Rahman, and Alexandre Thiercelin, 2009.
  •   “L’unité de la justification à l’épreuve de la justification juridique” Justificatory Unification and Legal Justification, forthcoming in L’unité des sciences, Thierry Martin (ed.), Paris: Vuibert, 2009. 
  •   “L’épreuve orale. Les magistrats administratifs face aux audiences de reconduite à la frontière” The Oral Trial:  French Administrative Judges Faced With Deportation Hearings, Droit et Société, N°72/2009.
  •  “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, Lettre “Recherche Droit & Justice,” n° 31, Winter 2008-2009.



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).