Architect of Justice: Felix S. Cohen and the Founding of American Legal Pluralism
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| Rating | : | 4.58 (828 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0801439566 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-07-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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The book will be a must-read for many people, and a delight for many more."Aviam Soifer, Dean and Professor, William S. It is also a case study in how a brilliant man trained in legal theory attempted to put his ideas into action to promote justice for American Indians, Jews seeking to escape Nazi horror, and other subordinated people. Students of law, federal-tribal relations, New Deal history, and American political theory will find much to learn in these pages."Philip P. It is a thoughtful intellectual history of one of law's most intelligent and intriguing thinkersa pillar of the legal realism movement whose scholarship is still important today. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in legal and political theory."Gregory S. Cohen came into the federal government in the early New Deal for short-term service in the Department of the Interior. Frickey, Alexander F. And it is also an incredibly rich analysis of how Cohen took the amorphous tre
Dalia Tsuk Mitchell is Associate Professor of Law at The George Washington University Law School.
A second-generation Jewish American, Cohen was born in Manhattan, where he attended the College of the City of New York before receiving a Ph.D. Between 1933 and 1948 he served in the Solicitor's Office of the Department of the Interior, where he made lasting contributions to federal Indian law, drafting the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934, the Indian Claims Commission Act of 1946, and, as head of the Indian Law Survey, authoring The Handbook of Federal Indian Law (1941), which promoted the protection of tribal rights and continues to serve as the basis for developments in federal Indian law.In Architect of Justice, Dalia Tsuk M