Abstract
It has been claimed that Felix S. Cohen, one of the leaders of the American legal realism movement of the 1930s, introduced legal pluralism to America. This article argues that this assessment is controversial and depends on the definition of legal pluralism. In its analysis of the concepts of legal pluralism advanced by Cohen and his contemporaries Karl Llewellyn and A. Arthur Schiller, the impact of the different traditions of legal pluralism is demonstrated. In fact, Schiller was the first to introduce many of the basic tenets of current legal pluralism such as the preservation of indigenous law in American legal discourse.
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