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Title: WOE UNTO YOU, LAWYERS
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URL Source: http://www.constitution.org/lrev/rodell/woe_unto_you_lawyers.htm
Published: Sep 22, 2007
Author: FRED RODELL, Professor of Law, Yale Univ
Post Date: 2007-09-22 16:46:27 by richard9151
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A lusty, gusty attack on “The Law” as a curious, antiquated institution which, through outworn procedures, technical jargon and queer mummery, enables a group of medicine-men to dominate our social and political lives and our business, to their own gain.

Written in 1939

“Woe unto you, lawyers! For ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.” — Luke. XI, 52

Contents

Modern Medicine-Men

The Law of the Lawyers

The Way it Works

The Law at its Supremest

No Tax on Max

The Law and the Lady

Fairy-Tales and Facts

More about Legal Language

Incubators of the Law

A Touch of Social Significance

Let’s Lay Down the Law

Preface

No lawyer will like this book. It isn’t written for lawyers. It is written for the average man and its purpose is to try to plant in his head, at the least, a seed of skepticism about the whole legal profession, its works and its ways.

In case anyone should be interested, I got my own skepticism early. Before I ever studied law I used to argue occasionally with lawyers – a foolish thing to do at any time. When, as frequently happened, they couldn’t explain their legal points so that they made any sense to me I brashly began to suspect that maybe they didn’t make any sense at all. But I couldn’t know. One of the reasons I went to law school was to try to find out.

At law school I was lucky. Ten of the men under whom I took courses were sufficiently skeptical and common-sensible about the branches of law they were teaching so that, unwittingly of course, they served together to fortify my hunch about the phoniness of the whole legal process. In a sense, they are the intellectual godfathers of this book. And though all of them would doubtless strenuously disown their godchild, I think I owe it to them to name them. Listed alphabetically, they are:

Thurman Arnold, now Assistant Attorney-General of the United States; Charles E. Clark, now Judge of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals; William O. Douglas, now Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court; Felix Frankfurter, now Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court; Leon Green, now Dean of the Northwestern University Law School; Walton Hamilton, Professor of Law at Yale University; Harold Laski, Professor of Political Science at the London School of Economics; Richard Joyce Smith, now a practicing attorney in New York City; Wesley Sturges, now Director of the Distilled Spirits Institute; and the late Lee Tulin.

By the time I got through law school, I had decided that I never wanted to practice law. I never have. I am not a member of any bar. If anyone should want, not unreasonably, to know what on earth I am doing – or trying to do – teaching law, he may find a hint of the answer toward the end of Chapter IX.

When I was mulling over the notion of writing this book, I outlined my ideas about the book, and about the law, to a lawyer who is not only able but also extraordinarily frank and perceptive about his profession. “Sure,” he said, “but why give the show away?” That clinched it.

F.R.

CHAPTER I

MODERN MEDICINE-MEN

“The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science.” Charles Macklin


This is a free on-line book, and I would suggest that you copy it to your puter for easy reference whenever you are in doubt about something to do with lawyers. Enjoy.

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#1. To: richard9151 (#0)

Wondering if this is the Rodell of Rodell Press...and how many pages this book runs to - do I have enough ink to print the sucker out?

Join the Ron Paul Revolution

Lod  posted on  2007-09-22   17:29:38 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: richard9151 (#0)

glad I'm not a lawyer.

1 Timothy 6:10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

Red Jones  posted on  2007-09-22   18:21:05 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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