Guido Calabresi
Guido Calabresi (born October 18, 1932 in Milan ) is an American legal scholar , judge and author .
Life
Calabresi's parents were the Italian doctor Massimo Calabresi and Bianca Maria Finzi-Contini Calabresi, who fled to the United States because of fascism in Italy and who took US citizenship in 1948 .
Calabresi studied law, politics and economics in the United States after leaving school. He graduated from Yale University . Since 1959 he has taught as a university professor at Yale Law School . In 1972 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . From 1985 to 1994 he was dean of Yale Law School . On February 9, 1994, Calabresi was appointed by President Bill Clinton to succeed Thomas Joseph Meskill as a judge on the Federal Court of Appeals for the second district. He is an external member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and a member of the American Philosophical Society .
Calabresi married the American Anne Gordon Audubon Tyler. The family has three children and lives in Woodbridge , Connecticut .
Works (selection)
- 1961: Some Thoughts on Risk Distribution and the Law of Torts , Yale Law Journal
- 1970: The Cost of Accidents: A Legal and Economic Analysis , Yale University Press
- 1972: Property Rules, Liability Rules and Inalienability: One View of the Cathedral , (in collaboration with Douglas Melamed), Harvard Law Review
- 1978: with Philip Bobbitt : Tragic Choices . Norton, New York City, USA, ISBN 0-39305649X .
Web links
- Yale Law School: Biography of Guido Calabresi (English)
- Biographical Directory of Federal Judges
- Literature by and about Guido Calabresi in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Individual evidence
- ↑ Member History: Guido Calabresi. American Philosophical Society, accessed May 27, 2018 (with a short biography).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Calabresi, Guido |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American lawyer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 18, 1932 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Milan |