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...bargaining for workers, and defender of the right to free speech for radicals and communists at a time when they were openly discriminated against. Renegade Lawyer is an exploration of the life of the leading civil liberties and labour lawyer of the mid-20th century.

Laurel Sefton MacDowell casts J.L. Cohen as a virtual Jekyll and Hyde character, with a public face disguising a disturbing private life. Born in Manchester, England to Jewish immigrant working-class parents, Cohen emerged as a Toronto labour lawyer in the 1920s and practised until the 1940s. He advocated Marxism, yet never joined the Communist Party. There was scarcely a single major labour dispute in Canada from 1936 to 1945 in which Cohen was not involved. Cohen was recognized as the country's leading labour lawyer,...

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