terminated the survey. The motivations of Justice are not entirely clear. Cohen seemed to believe that anti-Semitism was at play, but there were also substantial ideological differences between Cohen and his supervisors at Justice. Justice may have been concerned that the book would be too powerful a tool for Indian tribes. Ultimately, the book was published, but under the auspices of Interior alone. For this work, Cohen received the department's Distinguished Service Award in 1948. The University of New Mexico reissued the initial Handbook in 1971, and updated versions of the Handbook were published in 1982 and 2005. Cohen left government service in 1947 after federal policy shifted from one of support for tribal governments to that of terminating tribal sovereign status. He then entered private legal practice and taught legal philosophy at Yale Law School, The City College of New York, and Rutgers Law School. In 1951 Cohen published Readings in Jurisprudence and Legal Philosophy with his father, Professor Morris R. Cohen. While in private practice, Cohen litigated Indian land claims, won the right to vote for American Indians in New Mexico and Arizona, and successfully challenged Arizona's practice of denying social security benefits to Indians. He also continued to write and advocate regarding Federal Indian Law, publishing The Erosion of Indian Rights 1950-1953: A Case Study in Bureaucracy, 62 Yale L. J. 348 (1952–53), shortly before his untimely death in 1953. Cohen had also become increasingly committed to fighting other forms of oppression, in particular to securing the rights of immigrants and ethnic minorities. His major articles are anthologized in The Legal Conscience: Selected Papers of Felix S. Cohen, which was edited and assembled by his widow Lucy Kramer Cohen in 1960. Selected works References Further reading Dalia Tsuk Mitchell, Architect of Justice: Felix Cohen and the Founding of American Legal Pluralism (2007) Nell Newton, et al. eds., Cohen's Handbook of Federal Indian Law (2005) Kevin K. Washburn, Felix Cohen, Anti-Semitism and Federal Indian Law, http://ssrn.com/abstract=1338795 (2009) External links Cohen's Handbook of Federal Indian Law (1941 ed.): http://thorpe.ou.edu/cohen.html Felix S. Cohen Papers. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Cohen's Handbook of Federal Indian Law (2005 ed.): https://web.archive.org/web/20080823175343/http://bookstore.lexis.com/bookstore/product/57318.html Legal Theory Lexicon: Realist Deconstruction of Formalist Legal Categories: http://lsolum.typepad.com/legal_theory_lexicon/2006/09/legal_theory_le_2.html 1907 births 1953 deaths Columbia Law School alumni Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni City College of New York alumni American people of Belarusian-Jewish