Creator Bio
Max Kohler
1871–1934
Max Kohler was an American Jewish lawyer who worked in immigration law. Born in Michigan to German Jewish immigrants, Kohler moved to New York as a child. He studied law at Columbia University and served as a U.S. attorney before going into private practice. He argued a number of important legal cases, including three on immigration law that reached the United States Supreme Court.
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The Fight for Chinese American Citizenship
As a Jewish civil rights lawyer, Max Kohler exposed how the Chinese Exclusion Acts violated the Constitution’s guarantee of equality under the law.