Guido Calabresi
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Judge Guido Calabresi (born 1932) is currently a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and Sterling Professor at Yale Law School.
Biography
Calabresi was born in Milan, Italy. He and his parents immigrated to the United States for political reasons in 1939 and became naturalized citizens in 1948.Calabresi received his B.S. degree (summa cum laude) from Yale College in 1953. He then studied at Magdalene College of Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar and received his B.A. degree from this University with First Class Honors in 1955. He received his law degree from the Yale Law School in 1958, graduating first in his class, and was a note editor of the Yale Law Journal. From 1958 to 1959, Calabresi served as a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black.
Calabresi joined the faculty at Yale Law School in 1959 and was the Dean of the Yale Law School from 1985 to 1994. He holds the position of Sterling Professor Emeritus of Law and Professorial Lecturer in Law at the Yale Law School and has been awarded more than forty honorary degrees.
In 1994, President Bill Clinton appointed Calabresi to be a judge on the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. President Clinton had been a student in Calabresi's torts class during Clinton's studies at the Yale Law School. Among Judge Calabresi's other former students are Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito and Harvard Law School professor Richard H. Fallon, Jr.
Works
Apart from a brilliant academic and judicial career, Calabresi is recognised as one of the founding fathers of law and economics. His two seminal contributions to the field are the application of economics to tort law, and a legal interpretation of the Coase theorem.In 1961, he published Some Thoughts on Risk Distribution and the Law of Torts in the Yale Law Journal. This research was subsequently expanded in his 1970 book, The Cost of Accidents: A Legal and Economic Analysis. His other major work in law and economics is an article written with Douglas Melamed titled and published in 1972 in the Harvard Law Review. This article eventually became one of the most cited of all time.
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