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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Laurel Sefton MacDowell. Renegade Lawyer: The Life of J. L. Cohen. Buffalo, N.Y.: University of Toronto Press, for The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History, Toronto. 2001. Pp. xvi, 385. $60.00.

"He championed all the wrong people in all the right things." With these words, a Toronto newspaper concluded its eulogy of J. L. Cohen, a prominent labor lawyer who died suddenly—probably by his own hand—in 1950. It was, as Laurel Sefton MacDowell makes clear in this facinating biography, a most fitting epitaph. 1

Cohen was the most influential and creative labor lawyer of his generation. For almost the entire interwar period, and for the first few years of the Cold War, Cohen was involved in almost every major industrial dispute and free speech issue in Canada. He represented unions, Communists, Jehovah's Witnesses, wartime internees, the unemployed, and other marginal groups in Canadian society. And his impact was profound. According to the author, Cohen was the real father of Canada's innovative collective-bargaining system. He helped define its jurisprudence, was the architect of the labor relations boards and the industrial standards tribunals that are the foundations of the modern industrial-relations system, and did more than anyone else in Canada in those years to protect and advance workers' rights. . . .

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