Teaching

Leading off 2026, Cosim Sayid teaches the following at Washington and Lee, in the Law, Justice, and Society Minor and the Washington and Lee University School of Law:

LAW 758 -- Communicative Theories of Civil Disobedience, Pardon, and Punishment

LAW 782 -- Philosophical Foundations of Contract Law

PHI 348 -- Legal Ethics

In Fall 2025, Cosim taught LJS 101 -- Introduction to Law, Justice, and Society; and LAW 692 -- Interpretation in Law.

At Princeton, Cosim was head preceptor for the introductory sequence of courses in analytic philosophy -- Logic, Moral Philosophy, Metaphysics and Epistemology. In Spring 2023, he taught Systematic Ethics with Michael Smith. Cosim was head preceptor for Introduction to Logic at Princeton for the Spring 2024 term; Cosim served simultaneously as preceptor in the upper-division course 'Freedom and Responsibility', with Gideon Rosen.

Prior to that, at York College of the City University of New York, Cosim gave instruction, when he was a grad student, in Cultural Diversity, Philosophy, and Political Science. York is a Thurgood Marshall College Fund member-school, where Cosim was also Quantitative Reasoning Fellow in the Department of Math and Computer Science, teaching and tutoring in math. Cosim was also while a PhD student an instructor in the Rutgers-Merck Summer Bioethics Institute at Rutgers-Newark (directed by Jeff Buechner) for college-bound urban youth in northern New Jersey.