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Guido Calabresi

Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1994

Guido Calabresi , Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Guido Calabresi (born October 18, 1932) is an Italian-born American jurist who serves as a senior circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He is a former Dean of Yale Law School, where he has been a professor since 1959. Calabresi is considered, along with Ronald Coase and Richard Posner, a founder of the field of law and economics.

Education

  • Yale UniversityB.S., 1953
  • University of Oxford, Magdalen CollegeB.A., 1955
  • Yale Law SchoolLL.B., 1958

Career

Law clerk, Hon. Hugo Black, Supreme Court of the United States, 1958-1959; Professor, Yale Law School, 1959-1994; dean, 1985-1994; Town selectman, Woodbridge, Connecticut, 1971-1975

Biography

Guido Calabresi (born October 18, 1932) is an Italian-born American jurist who serves as a senior circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He is a former Dean of Yale Law School, where he has been a professor since 1959. Calabresi is considered, along with Ronald Coase and Richard Posner, a founder of the field of law and economics.

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