Box 1

Abstract One letter in this collection, dated Harvard Law School, 1931, with its signature cut out, suggests Rodell take a job with Governer Pinchot of Pennsylvania if it is offered, which he did. Rodell later became, and remained for 41 years, a professor of law at Yale University. Yale Law School in its philosophy was diametrically opposed to the philosophy propounded by Harvard Law School. This "Yale" modus vivendi was represented on the Supreme Court by Justices William O. Douglas and Hugo Black,...