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Dalia Tsuk Mitchell - Architect of Justice - 9780801439568 - V9780801439568
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Architect of Justice

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Description for Architect of Justice Hardback. Num Pages: 384 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; LAF; LN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 29. Weight in Grams: 742.

A major figure in American legal history during the first half of the twentieth century, Felix Solomon Cohen (1907–1953) is best known for his realist view of the law and his efforts to grant Native Americans more control over their own cultural, political, and economic affairs. 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. in philosophy from Harvard University and a law degree from Columbia University. Between 1933 and 1948 he served in the Solicitor's Office of the Department of the Interior, where he ... Read more

In Architect of Justice, Dalia Tsuk Mitchell provides the first intellectual biography of Cohen, whose career and legal philosophy she depicts as being inextricably bound to debates about the place of political, social, and cultural groups within American democracy. Cohen was, she finds, deeply influenced by his own experiences as a Jewish American and discussions within the Jewish community about assimilation and cultural pluralism as well the persecution of European Jews before and during World War II.

Dalia Tsuk Mitchell uses Cohen's scholarship and legal work to construct a history of legal pluralism—a tradition in American legal and political thought that has immense relevance to contemporary debates and that has never been examined before. She traces the many ways in which legal pluralism informed New Deal policymaking and demonstrates the importance of Cohen's work on behalf of Native Americans in this context, thus bringing federal Indian law from the margins of American legal history to its center. By following the development of legal pluralism in Cohen's writings, Architect of Justice demonstrates a largely unrecognized continuity in American legal thought between the Progressive Era and ongoing debates about multiculturalism and minority rights today. A landmark work in American legal history, this biography also makes clear the major contribution Felix S. Cohen made to America's legal and political landscape through his scholarship and his service to the American government.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801439568
SKU
V9780801439568
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About Dalia Tsuk Mitchell
Dalia Tsuk Mitchell is Associate Professor of Law at The George Washington University Law School.

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Dalia Tsuk Mitchell has produced a work of impressive legal scholarship.
New York Law Journal

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