United States: Felix Cohen And The Spanish Origin Of Indian Rights

United States: Felix Cohen And The Spanish Origin Of Indian Rights Patricio Boyer, 2010   In this essay, I examine the influence of colonial Latin American jurisprudence on New Deal lawyer and expert on federal Indian law, Felix Cohen. I will do so by outlining the major sixteenth-century debates about indigenous rights upon which Cohen capitalizes, as well as the manner in which Spanish thinkers like Francisco de Vitoria and Bartolomé de las Casas weave in and out of his writings. The...

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