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Fred Rodell

Fred Rodell (1907 – 1980) was an American law professor most famous for his critiques of the U.S. legal profession. In 1939, he wrote the book Woe Unto You, Lawyers!He was one of the leading proponents of the “legal realism” approach and railed against overly abstract and theoretical legal arguments. A professor at Yale Law School for more than forty years, Rodell was described in 1980 as the "bad boy of American legal academia."

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Neither the Constitution nor the laws but John Marshall made the Court Supreme