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The Christian Jurisprudence Of Robert E. Rodes Jr., Thomas L. Shaffer
The Christian Jurisprudence Of Robert E. Rodes Jr., Thomas L. Shaffer
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When I had the chance to leave law practice and become a fulltime law teacher, I turned, in the time-honored fashion, for advice from my law teachers. The most memorable and persistent of these—the most cheerful, too, and therefore the most hopeful—was Robert E. Rodes, Jr., then a young (36), transplanted New Yorker, Harvard law graduate, and Boston lawyer. He had already come to flourish, in the Aristotelian sense, in the Midwest—in a Catholic university known more for its football players than for its lawyers.
Rodes told me he had come to teaching and to Notre Dame because he wanted …