Lloyd R. Cohen

Professor of Law at George Mason University

Lloyd has 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. Before joining the faculty of George Mason in 1993, he taught law at Chicago-Kent College of Law and was a John M. Olin Research Fellow at the University of Chicago. Cohen has 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.

Debates Featuring Lloyd R. Cohen

We Should Legalize the Market for Human Organs

With James F. Childress, Lloyd R. Cohen, Francis L. Delmonico, Amy L. Friedman, David Rothman, Sally Satel

May 13, 2008

Though organ transplantation has become a life-saving marvel of modern medicine, the donor waitlist is substantially longer than the supply, and many patients die before they can be treated. Thus, proponents claim, creating an economic incentive for organ donation will save lives. Others, however, argue that allowing the sale of harvested organs would decrease equity of access between the rich and poor and foster an illicit organ trade in developing nations. Should we legalize the market for human organs?

We Should Legalize the Market for Human Organs

With James F. Childress, Lloyd R. Cohen, Francis L. Delmonico, Amy L. Friedman, David Rothman, Sally Satel

May 13, 2008

Features

Topics

Upcoming debates

SUPPORT OPEN-MINDED DEBATE

Lloyd R. Cohen

Debates Featuring Lloyd R. Cohen

We Should Legalize the Market for Human Organs

We Should Legalize the Market for Human Organs

Be Curious. Be Open-Minded. Be Open to Debate.