Felix Solomon Cohen (1907-1953) was a lawyer and legal scholar who developed an interest and expertise in law concerning natural resources, statehood and economic development for American territories, Indian affairs, and immigration and minority problems. 1907 (MCMVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... 1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday. ...

Felix S. Cohen was born in Manhattan, New York in 1907 and grew up in Yonkers. Cohen attended the City College of New York, and received an M.A. and Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard University in 1927 and 1929, respectively. Cohen entered Columbia Law School in 1928 and graduated in 1931. He was the legislation and book review editor of the Columbia Law Review, serving under Editor-in-Chief Herbert Wechsler. The Borough of Manhattan, highlighted in yellow, lies between the East River and the Hudson River. ... Yonkers, just north of New York City in Westchester County, is the fourth largest city in the U.S. state of New York, with a population of 196,086 (according to the 2000 census). ... The City College of The City University of New York (known more commonly as City College of New York or simply City College, CCNY, or colloquially as City)[1] is a senior college of the City University of New York, in New York City. ... Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) , is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Founded in 1636,[1] Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning still operating in the United States. ... Columbia Law School, located in New York City, is one of the professional schools of Columbia University and one of the leading law schools in the United States. ... Herbert Wechsler (1909–2000) was a legal scholar and former director of the American Law Institute (ALI). ...

Cohen worked in the Solicitor's Office of the Department of the Interior from 1933-1947. In 1939 he became Chief of the Indian Law Survey, which was an effort to compile the federal laws and treaties regarding American Indians. Cohen helped edit the survey that was eventually published as The Handbook of Federal Indian Law. For this work, Cohen received the department's Distinguished Service Award in 1948. The United States Department of the Interior (DOI) is a Cabinet department of the United States government that manages and conserves most federally-owned land. ... A Sioux in traditional dress including war bonnet, circa 1908. ...

Cohen entered private legal practice in 1948, but concurrently 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. His major articles are anthologized in The Legal Conscience: Selected Papers of Felix S. Cohen (Lucy K. Cohen ed., 1970). The Sterling Law Building Sculptural ornamentation on the Sterling Law Building Yale Law School, or YLS, is the law school of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. ... Morris Raphael Cohen (July 25, 1880 - January 28, 1947) Lawyer and legal scholar. ...

Cohen was a leading figure in American Legal Realism, a movement of legal scholarship suspicious of legal terms of art and formalism. The Realists sought a realistic view of the law, examining data from fields like psychology, sociology, and economics to bolster their understanding of how law actually works. Cohen's most famous contribution to this debate was "Transcendental Nonsense and the Functional Approach," which ran in the Columbia Law Review in 1935 and is among the most-cited law review articles ever written.

In private practice, Cohen helped American Indians get voting rights in states (Arizona and New Mexico) that had denied them the franchise well into the twentieth century.

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