Neil B. Cohen is a Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School, where he teaches courses in domestic and international commercial law, contracts, and constitutional law.  He is also Counsel to Bingham McCutchen LLP.  Professor Cohen has been a member of the faculty at Brooklyn Law School since 1985; prior to that, he was a Professor of Law at Seton Hall University School of Law.  He was a Visiting Professor at Columbia Law School in 1994-1995.

Professor Cohen was the Reporter for the American Law Institute's Restatement of the Law of Suretyship and Guaranty, which was published in 1996; in honor of his accomplishments as Reporter, he was named the American Law Institute’s R. Ammi Cutter Reporter in 1994.  Professor Cohen was also the Reporter for Revised Article 1 of the Uniform Commercial Code (a joint project of the American Law Institute and the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws).  In addition, Professor Cohen was a member of the Drafting Committee that prepared Revised Article 9 of Uniform Commercial Code, and chaired that committee’s Task Force on International Secured Transactions.  He is currently a member of the Drafting Committee that is revising Articles 2 and 2A of the Uniform Commercial Code and serves as the Director of Research of the Permanent Editorial Board for the Uniform Commercial Code.

Professor Cohen served as a member of the United States delegation to the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) in conjunction with its preparation of the United Nations Convention on the Assignment of Receivables in International Trade, and now serves as a member of the delegation to the UNCITRAL Working Group for its broader work regarding secured credit.  He has also served as Special Consultant to the New York Law Revision Commission regarding Uniform Commercial Code Articles 2A, 3, and 4, Consultant to the Center for Economic Analysis of Law, and as Participating Scholar for the Commercial Law Project for Ukraine.  Professor Cohen is a Regent of the American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers and a member of the American Law Institute.  He is co-author of the volumes of the Hawkland UCC Series which analyze Parts 5, 6, and 7 of Revised Article 9.  He is also co-author of the monthly Commercial Law Report and a bi-monthly Commercial Law column for the New York Law Journal, as well as an occasional columnist for the National Law Journal.

Professor Cohen is a frequent lecturer on commercial law issues and has written numerous law review articles in areas as diverse as commercial law, bankruptcy, medical malpractice, and probability and statistics.  He is also a co-author of What If the American Political System Were Different? (1992), and co-editor of Baseball and the American Legal Mind (Garland 1995).  Professor Cohen received an S.B. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a J.D. from New York University School of Law, where he was a Root-Tilden Scholar.