Felix Solomon Cohen, a vaunted legal realist considered by many the leading architect of the Indian New Deal in the 1930s, is once again receiving the attention he deserves. The current spate of attention is reflected in the recent literature (see selected bibliography) analyzing his philosophy of law, including his work in American Indian law. A major academic conference, held at the University of Connecticut School of Law in the fall of 2005 and titled “Indian Law at a Crossroad,” had a two-pronged purpose—to assess the current state of federal Indian law and to hail the latest incarnation of Cohen’s most widely known accomplishment, the Handbook of Federal.
