Jacob Katz Cogan
Biographic Data
| ID | 335255 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jacob Katz Cogan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jacob Katz |
| FAMILY NAME | Cogan |
| SIGNATURE | COGAN J K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cincinnati |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7423-1117 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Trump Administration Signals Major Reevaluation of U.S. Engagement with International Organizations
President Donald J. Trump began his second term by strongly signaling that U.S. engagement with, and support for, international organizations (IOs)
The End of the U.S.-Backed International Order and the Future of International Law
The international order that the United States has for decades led and maintained is undergoing dramatic change. In this Essay, we explain that international law during this period was constituted with, and dependent on, U.S. power; that the two became (in odd-couple fashion) entwined together; and that, as the international order changes, the international legal system, its content and its architecture, will also inevitably change
Introduction to a Special Issue on the Contemporary Practice of the United States at the Outset of President Trump’s Second Term in Office
The United States Recognizes the Human Right to a Clean, Healthy, and Sustainable Environment
the United States voted in favor of UN General Assembly Resolution 76/300 "recogniz [ing] the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment as a human right." 1 Just nine and a half months earlier, in October 2021, the United States had opposed the Human Rights Council's recognition of the same right.Not only was the U.S. vote in the General Assembly a reversal of its consistent stance against the right to a healthy environment, it was al…
A History of International Law in the Vernacular
Histories of international law have typically focused on the origins of legal rules and doctrines, the decisions of courts and other formal tribunals, the views of professors and legal theorists and diplomats, and the evolution of the legal profession. That is, international legal histories have centered on the concerns of lawyers and states and have reflected a positivist vision of international lawmaking. We need a history of international law …
The Hidden History of International Law in the Americas
Juan Pablo Scarfi’s The Hidden History of International Law in the Americas is part dual legal biography of James Brown Scott and Alejandro Alvarez, part institutional history of the American Institute of International Law (AIIL) – the organization they created with the financial support of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP) – and part exploration of ‘American international law’, a set of ideas principally set forth by Scott an…
The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
This treatise is a detailed article-by-article examination of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Each article of the CRPD contains a methodical analysis of the preparatory works, followed by an exhaustive examination of the contents of each article based on case law and concluding observations from the CRPD Committee, judgments from national and international courts and tribunals, pertinent UN and oth…
Financing and Budgets
International organizations require funds to operate, a basic and anodyne fact that has manifold and fundamental consequences. The means by which organizations are financed and the methods by which budgets are decided shape the character of the organization, its relations with and between its member states, and its policy outcomes. Consequently, formal and informal decisions and practices concerning the design of financing mechanisms and the allo…
To Reform the World
Disagreements regarding the appropriate scope of the mandates of international organizations (IOs), played out in legal doctrines such as implied powers, have long been a staple of international institutional law. And debates about the relationship between states and international organizations and concerns about IO ‘mission creep’ have long pervaded the international relations literature. Guy Fiti Sinclair, in this learned, thoughtful, and well-…
The Oxford Handbook of International Organizations
Virtually every important question of public policy today involves an international organization. From trade to intellectual property to health policy and beyond, governments interact with international organizations (IOs) in almost everything they do. Increasingly, individual citizens are directly affected by the work of IOs. This book gives an overview of the world of IOs today. It emphasizes both the practical aspects of their organization and…
Oxford Handbook of International Organizations
The Two Codes on the Use of Force
The jus ad bellum -the international regime that governs cross-border force -is an enigma. The regime is foundational to the global order and has been remarkably resilient over time. And yet, it is deeply discordant, even incoherent, in its operation. A few use of force norms are settled and robust. Although states occasionally deviate from these norms, the deviations are widely viewed and treated as legal violations. Other use of force norms are…
Stabilization and the Expanding Scope of the Security Council’s Work
Lost amid the criticisms of the UN Security Council for its paralysis in responding to the crises in Syria and Ukraine has been the contemporaneous expansion in the scope of the Council's work. Increasingly engaged in the protection of states from nonstate actors, such as the Mouvement du 23 mars and Islamic State, and other contemporary threats, such as pandemics and illicit trade, the Council, and with it the United Nations as a whole, has exer…
The Changing Form of the International Law Commission's Work
Sean Murphy's report on the sixty-fifth session of the International Law Commission (ILC) describes and analyzes the Commission's activities and decisions from last summer. He focuses his attention, as the Commission did, on the draft articles proposed by the Special Rapporteurs on the topics "immunity of state officials from criminal jurisdiction" and "the protection of persons in the event of disaster," as well as the Special Rapporteur's repor…
The 2012 Judicial Activity of the International Court of Justice
The International Court of Justice rendered four judgments in 2012: on February 3, a ruling on the merits in Jurisdictional Immunities of the State (Germany v. Italy; Greece intervening), finding that Italy had violated its obligations under customary international law and requiring Italy to ensure that the decisions of its judicial authorities that infringed Germany’s immunities would cease to have effect; on June 19, a ruling on the compensatio…
Stichting Mothers of Srebrenica v. Netherlands
On June 11, 2013, in Stichting Mothers of Srebrenica , a chamber of the European Court of Human Rights found that the Dutch courts’ grant of immunity to the United Nations in a case brought by and on behalf of relatives of individuals killed by the Army of the Republika Srpska in and around Srebrenica in July 1995 did not run afoul of Articles 6 and 13 of the European Convention on Human Rights (Convention). Those provisions guarantee, respective…
The 2011 Judicial Activity of the International Court of Justice
The International Court of Justice rendered four judgments in 2011: on April 1, a ruling on the respondent’s preliminary objections in Application of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (Georgia v. Russian Federation), upholding one objection and finding that the Court had no jurisdiction to entertain the application; on May 4, two rulings on Costa Rica’s and Honduras’s applications for permission…
The Idea of Fragmentation
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The 2010 Judicial Activity of the International Court of Justice
The International Court of Justice rendered two final decisions on the merits in 2010: in Pulp Mills on the River Uruguay (Argentina v. Uruguay) and Ahmadou Sadio Diallo (Republic of Guinea v. Democratic Republic of the Congo). The Court also issued an advisory opinion in Accordance with International Law of the Unilateral Declaration of Independence in Respect of Kosovo and an order finding Italy’s counterclaim inadmissible in Jurisdictional Imm…
The 2009 Judicial Activity of the International Court of Justice
The International Court of Justice issued three judgments in 2009: a final decision, of January 19, in Request for an Interpretation of the Judgment of 31 March 2004 in the Case Concerning Avena and Other Mexican Nationals (Mexico v . United States of America) (Mexico v. United States); a final decision on the merits, of February 3, in Maritime Delimitation in the Black Sea (Romania v. Ukraine); and a final decision on the merits, of July 13, in …
National Courts, Domestic Democracy, and the Evolution of International Law
The proliferation of international law and institutions over the past two decades has produced both excitement and anxiety. Cooperation and coordination - formal and informal - has allowed states and other international actors to get at global and regional problems and facilitate international exchange much more so than in the past. The heightened activities of international organizations and national governments have pertained both to traditiona…
Representation and Power in International Organization
In 2005, when James Wolfensohn announced that he would not seek a third term as president of the World Bank, few doubted that another United States national, the choice of the U.S. president, would take his place. Each of the previous eight presidents of the bank had been an American, dating back to the international financial institution's establishment in 1946,and despite private and public grousing by some over the Bush administration's eventu…
Cooperation with international tribunals—binding orders directed at states and international organizations—intelligence information—national security interests—disclosure to defendants—fair trails
Prosecutor v. Milutinović et al., Case No. IT-05-87-AR108 bis .2, Decision on Request of the United States of America for Review. Prosecutor v. Milutinović et al., Case No. IT-05-87-AR108 bis .l, Decision on Request of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation for Review. International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, Appeals Chamber, May 12 and May 15, 2006, respectively. In May 2006, the appeals chamber of the International Criminal Tr…
Henry Clay the Lawyer
Journal Article Henry Clay the Lawyer. By Maurice G. Baxter. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2000. x, 141 pp. $24.95, isbn 0-8131-2147-7.) Get access Jacob Katz Cogan Jacob Katz Cogan Princeton UniversityPrinceton, New Jersey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 3, December 2001, Page 1074, https://doi.org/10.2307/2700440 Published: 01 December 2001
Petition for Woman's Suffrage, New York State Constitutional Convention
Recently, historians have begun to dismantle the notion that only by the Seneca Falls meeting did American women assert political goals or identities. The petition reprinted in this article establishes that Seneca Falls did not burst full-grown upon the scene and that the demand for suffrage found its roots in movements such as abolition and also in "a long debate about republican ideals and about the essential meaning of the Declaration of Indep…
Representation and Power in International Organization
In 2005, when James Wolfensohn announced that he would not seek a third term as president of the World Bank, few doubted that another United States national, the choice of the U.S. president, would take his place. Each of the previous eight presidents of the bank had been an American, dating back to the international financial institution's establishment in 1946,and despite private and public grousing by some over the Bush administration's eventu…
The End of the U.S.-Backed International Order and the Future of International Law
The international order that the United States has for decades led and maintained is undergoing dramatic change. In this Essay, we explain that international law during this period was constituted with, and dependent on, U.S. power; that the two became (in odd-couple fashion) entwined together; and that, as the international order changes, the international legal system, its content and its architecture, will also inevitably change
A History of International Law in the Vernacular
Histories of international law have typically focused on the origins of legal rules and doctrines, the decisions of courts and other formal tribunals, the views of professors and legal theorists and diplomats, and the evolution of the legal profession. That is, international legal histories have centered on the concerns of lawyers and states and have reflected a positivist vision of international lawmaking. We need a history of international law …
To Reform the World
Disagreements regarding the appropriate scope of the mandates of international organizations (IOs), played out in legal doctrines such as implied powers, have long been a staple of international institutional law. And debates about the relationship between states and international organizations and concerns about IO ‘mission creep’ have long pervaded the international relations literature. Guy Fiti Sinclair, in this learned, thoughtful, and well-…
Stichting Mothers of Srebrenica v. Netherlands
On June 11, 2013, in Stichting Mothers of Srebrenica , a chamber of the European Court of Human Rights found that the Dutch courts’ grant of immunity to the United Nations in a case brought by and on behalf of relatives of individuals killed by the Army of the Republika Srpska in and around Srebrenica in July 1995 did not run afoul of Articles 6 and 13 of the European Convention on Human Rights (Convention). Those provisions guarantee, respective…
The 2011 Judicial Activity of the International Court of Justice
The International Court of Justice rendered four judgments in 2011: on April 1, a ruling on the respondent’s preliminary objections in Application of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (Georgia v. Russian Federation), upholding one objection and finding that the Court had no jurisdiction to entertain the application; on May 4, two rulings on Costa Rica’s and Honduras’s applications for permission…
The 2009 Judicial Activity of the International Court of Justice
The International Court of Justice issued three judgments in 2009: a final decision, of January 19, in Request for an Interpretation of the Judgment of 31 March 2004 in the Case Concerning Avena and Other Mexican Nationals (Mexico v . United States of America) (Mexico v. United States); a final decision on the merits, of February 3, in Maritime Delimitation in the Black Sea (Romania v. Ukraine); and a final decision on the merits, of July 13, in …
The 2010 Judicial Activity of the International Court of Justice
The International Court of Justice rendered two final decisions on the merits in 2010: in Pulp Mills on the River Uruguay (Argentina v. Uruguay) and Ahmadou Sadio Diallo (Republic of Guinea v. Democratic Republic of the Congo). The Court also issued an advisory opinion in Accordance with International Law of the Unilateral Declaration of Independence in Respect of Kosovo and an order finding Italy’s counterclaim inadmissible in Jurisdictional Imm…
National Courts, Domestic Democracy, and the Evolution of International Law
The proliferation of international law and institutions over the past two decades has produced both excitement and anxiety. Cooperation and coordination - formal and informal - has allowed states and other international actors to get at global and regional problems and facilitate international exchange much more so than in the past. The heightened activities of international organizations and national governments have pertained both to traditiona…
The Reynolds Affair and the Politics of Character
For historians, the Reynolds Affair has served as one of many examples of party strife during the 1790s -- noteworthy more for its colorfulness than its insight. The Reynolds Affair, however, reveals more than historians have allowed-shedding light on a central theme of the revolutionary and postrevolutionary eras: the reevaluation of political relationships. The postrevolutionary process of reordering the worlds of politics and society gradually…
Negotiated Authorities
Jack P. Greene has most often made his mark with the essay (especially the historiographical review). Negotiated Authorities collects a number of these writings from the last thirty-five years on the political and constitutional history of colonial British America. A companion volume to Imperatives, Behaviors, and Identities: Essays in Early American Cultural History (Charlottesville, 1992), this book, like its partner, contains a selection of pu…
James Madison and the American Nation, 1751-1836
In Robert A. Rutland's James Madison and the American Nation, eighty-eight scholars from a variety of backgrounds (including such heavy hitters as Banning, McCoy, Rakove, Rutland, and Merrill D. Peterson) contribute 400 short entries that describe the people, events, and subjects that made up Madison's life. Each entry includes a brief bibliography (and occasional cross-references), and the text is fully outfitted with illustrations. One wonders,…
Petition for Woman's Suffrage, New York State Constitutional Convention
Recently, historians have begun to dismantle the notion that only by the Seneca Falls meeting did American women assert political goals or identities. The petition reprinted in this article establishes that Seneca Falls did not burst full-grown upon the scene and that the demand for suffrage found its roots in movements such as abolition and also in "a long debate about republican ideals and about the essential meaning of the Declaration of Indep…
Henry Clay the Lawyer
Journal Article Henry Clay the Lawyer. By Maurice G. Baxter. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2000. x, 141 pp. $24.95, isbn 0-8131-2147-7.) Get access Jacob Katz Cogan Jacob Katz Cogan Princeton UniversityPrinceton, New Jersey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 3, December 2001, Page 1074, https://doi.org/10.2307/2700440 Published: 01 December 2001
Cooperation with international tribunals—binding orders directed at states and international organizations—intelligence information—national security interests—disclosure to defendants—fair trails
Prosecutor v. Milutinović et al., Case No. IT-05-87-AR108 bis .2, Decision on Request of the United States of America for Review. Prosecutor v. Milutinović et al., Case No. IT-05-87-AR108 bis .l, Decision on Request of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation for Review. International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, Appeals Chamber, May 12 and May 15, 2006, respectively. In May 2006, the appeals chamber of the International Criminal Tr…
National Courts, Domestic Democracy, and the Evolution of International Law
The proliferation of international law and institutions over the past two decades has produced both excitement and anxiety. Cooperation and coordination - formal and informal - has allowed states and other international actors to get at global and regional problems and facilitate international exchange much more so than in the past. The heightened activities of international organizations and national governments have pertained both to traditiona…
Representation and Power in International Organization
In 2005, when James Wolfensohn announced that he would not seek a third term as president of the World Bank, few doubted that another United States national, the choice of the U.S. president, would take his place. Each of the previous eight presidents of the bank had been an American, dating back to the international financial institution's establishment in 1946,and despite private and public grousing by some over the Bush administration's eventu…
The 2009 Judicial Activity of the International Court of Justice
The International Court of Justice issued three judgments in 2009: a final decision, of January 19, in Request for an Interpretation of the Judgment of 31 March 2004 in the Case Concerning Avena and Other Mexican Nationals (Mexico v . United States of America) (Mexico v. United States); a final decision on the merits, of February 3, in Maritime Delimitation in the Black Sea (Romania v. Ukraine); and a final decision on the merits, of July 13, in …
The Idea of Fragmentation
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The 2010 Judicial Activity of the International Court of Justice
The International Court of Justice rendered two final decisions on the merits in 2010: in Pulp Mills on the River Uruguay (Argentina v. Uruguay) and Ahmadou Sadio Diallo (Republic of Guinea v. Democratic Republic of the Congo). The Court also issued an advisory opinion in Accordance with International Law of the Unilateral Declaration of Independence in Respect of Kosovo and an order finding Italy’s counterclaim inadmissible in Jurisdictional Imm…
The 2011 Judicial Activity of the International Court of Justice
The International Court of Justice rendered four judgments in 2011: on April 1, a ruling on the respondent’s preliminary objections in Application of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (Georgia v. Russian Federation), upholding one objection and finding that the Court had no jurisdiction to entertain the application; on May 4, two rulings on Costa Rica’s and Honduras’s applications for permission…
The 2012 Judicial Activity of the International Court of Justice
The International Court of Justice rendered four judgments in 2012: on February 3, a ruling on the merits in Jurisdictional Immunities of the State (Germany v. Italy; Greece intervening), finding that Italy had violated its obligations under customary international law and requiring Italy to ensure that the decisions of its judicial authorities that infringed Germany’s immunities would cease to have effect; on June 19, a ruling on the compensatio…
Stichting Mothers of Srebrenica v. Netherlands
On June 11, 2013, in Stichting Mothers of Srebrenica , a chamber of the European Court of Human Rights found that the Dutch courts’ grant of immunity to the United Nations in a case brought by and on behalf of relatives of individuals killed by the Army of the Republika Srpska in and around Srebrenica in July 1995 did not run afoul of Articles 6 and 13 of the European Convention on Human Rights (Convention). Those provisions guarantee, respective…
The Changing Form of the International Law Commission's Work
Sean Murphy's report on the sixty-fifth session of the International Law Commission (ILC) describes and analyzes the Commission's activities and decisions from last summer. He focuses his attention, as the Commission did, on the draft articles proposed by the Special Rapporteurs on the topics "immunity of state officials from criminal jurisdiction" and "the protection of persons in the event of disaster," as well as the Special Rapporteur's repor…
Stabilization and the Expanding Scope of the Security Council’s Work
Lost amid the criticisms of the UN Security Council for its paralysis in responding to the crises in Syria and Ukraine has been the contemporaneous expansion in the scope of the Council's work. Increasingly engaged in the protection of states from nonstate actors, such as the Mouvement du 23 mars and Islamic State, and other contemporary threats, such as pandemics and illicit trade, the Council, and with it the United Nations as a whole, has exer…
The Oxford Handbook of International Organizations
Virtually every important question of public policy today involves an international organization. From trade to intellectual property to health policy and beyond, governments interact with international organizations (IOs) in almost everything they do. Increasingly, individual citizens are directly affected by the work of IOs. This book gives an overview of the world of IOs today. It emphasizes both the practical aspects of their organization and…
Oxford Handbook of International Organizations
The Two Codes on the Use of Force
The jus ad bellum -the international regime that governs cross-border force -is an enigma. The regime is foundational to the global order and has been remarkably resilient over time. And yet, it is deeply discordant, even incoherent, in its operation. A few use of force norms are settled and robust. Although states occasionally deviate from these norms, the deviations are widely viewed and treated as legal violations. Other use of force norms are…
Financing and Budgets
International organizations require funds to operate, a basic and anodyne fact that has manifold and fundamental consequences. The means by which organizations are financed and the methods by which budgets are decided shape the character of the organization, its relations with and between its member states, and its policy outcomes. Consequently, formal and informal decisions and practices concerning the design of financing mechanisms and the allo…
To Reform the World
Disagreements regarding the appropriate scope of the mandates of international organizations (IOs), played out in legal doctrines such as implied powers, have long been a staple of international institutional law. And debates about the relationship between states and international organizations and concerns about IO ‘mission creep’ have long pervaded the international relations literature. Guy Fiti Sinclair, in this learned, thoughtful, and well-…
The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
This treatise is a detailed article-by-article examination of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Each article of the CRPD contains a methodical analysis of the preparatory works, followed by an exhaustive examination of the contents of each article based on case law and concluding observations from the CRPD Committee, judgments from national and international courts and tribunals, pertinent UN and oth…
The Hidden History of International Law in the Americas
Juan Pablo Scarfi’s The Hidden History of International Law in the Americas is part dual legal biography of James Brown Scott and Alejandro Alvarez, part institutional history of the American Institute of International Law (AIIL) – the organization they created with the financial support of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP) – and part exploration of ‘American international law’, a set of ideas principally set forth by Scott an…
A History of International Law in the Vernacular
Histories of international law have typically focused on the origins of legal rules and doctrines, the decisions of courts and other formal tribunals, the views of professors and legal theorists and diplomats, and the evolution of the legal profession. That is, international legal histories have centered on the concerns of lawyers and states and have reflected a positivist vision of international lawmaking. We need a history of international law …
The United States Recognizes the Human Right to a Clean, Healthy, and Sustainable Environment
the United States voted in favor of UN General Assembly Resolution 76/300 "recogniz [ing] the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment as a human right." 1 Just nine and a half months earlier, in October 2021, the United States had opposed the Human Rights Council's recognition of the same right.Not only was the U.S. vote in the General Assembly a reversal of its consistent stance against the right to a healthy environment, it was al…
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