Guido Calabresi

Guido Calabresi is an Italian-born American jurist and legal scholar, widely regarded as a co-founder of the field of law and economics. Born on October 18, 1932, in Milan, Italy, Calabresi and his family fled the fascist regime and immigrated to the United States in 1939. They settled in New Haven, Connecticut, and he became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1948.

He attended Yale College, graduating in 1953, and was a Rhodes Scholar at Magdalen College, Oxford. He then returned to Yale Law School, where he graduated first in his class in 1958. After clerking for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black, Calabresi began his career at Yale Law School, becoming its youngest-ever full professor in 1962. He served as the Dean of the law school from 1985 to 1994, during which time he launched one of the nation's first loan forgiveness programs for graduates taking lower-paying public interest jobs.

In 1994, he was appointed by President Bill Clinton to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, where he continues to serve as a senior circuit judge.

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Calabresi, Guido | Federal Judicial Center. (n.d.). https://www.fjc.gov/history/judges/calabresi-guido

Guido’s tales. (2023, January 24). Yale Law School. https://law.yale.edu/yls-today/news/guidos-tales

Hon. Guido Calabresi. (n.d.). https://www.ca2.uscourts.gov/judges/bios/gc.html