Neil Philip Cohen

This message may be way too late to be received, but I just learned of Neil´s death. I knew him ( and met his parents) when we were students at Centralia High School. I hold special memories of Neil as a kind, polite and extraordinarily thoughtful friend. I also hold regrets and sadness about being unaware of his move to northern CA and missing an opportunity to connect with him and his family. I lived very near San Rafael from 1979-2020. Janet Hanson Stanish

This message comes far too late, and for that I apologize. Professor Cohen, as he was known to me, taught my Evidence class at University of San Francisco SOL in what would be his final semester teaching. Professor Cohen was undoubtedly a brilliant legal mind, one who knew the Rules of Evidence like he knew the back of his hand. More impressive, however, was his profound sense of humanity. One night, when I stayed after class to speak to him, Professor Cohen told me a story about his...

I will miss him. He taught me so much. He left this world far too soon.

I was a student in Professor Cohen's Evidence course at Brooklyn Law School: a subject which hitherto I had no interest in, nor any positive expectations of. Professor Cohen brought the subject alive with his intelligence, wit, and natural enthusiasm. His was one of the few classes I actually looked forward to, and I still recall him fondly from time to time even a decade later.

After the last class there were a number of students already waiting to thank him, so I left without...

His ride-along program with Knoxville police officers taught me a lot. If he were alive today, I'd bet he would be helping with some of the needed community relations.

He was too young to go and will be missed by many, many students, I'm sure. I was fortunate to take Criminal Law with him at UT years ago and have always been glad that I went on two of the police ride-alongs he organized for student volunteers. My first experience with police had been in Chicago during the 1968 Democratic convention. But after those Knoxville ride-alongs, I was able to look at police work from a different point of view. Thanks, Dr. Cohen.

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Neil ("Capt. Neil") was our counselor at Camp Indianola, on Lake Mendota (in Madison, WI), for the summer 1964. We knew he was an athlete-scholar, but most important a wonderful, dedicated counselor (and big brother) to six of us twelve year olds. Neil had a wonderful sense of humor, put up with rafts of adolescent nonsense, and above all was a person of exemplary character. Even at that age, we knew enough to recognize what a truly fine human being he was. Our condolences to the...

Neil and I were high school buddies. He was my catcher throughout high school baseball and my partner in various comedy acts . I will miss that guy a lot. My prayers and best wishes to all the family. Ron Johnson