High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Fred Rodell (March 1, 1907 – June 4, 1980) was an American law professor most famous for his critiques of the U.S. legal profession. A professor at Yale Law School for more than forty years, Rodell was described in 1980 as the "bad boy of American legal academia" (by Charles Alan Wright, "Goodbye to Fred Rodell," 89 Yale L.J. 1455, quoted in the Pitt Law School Web site).