Calabresi was born in 1932 in Milan,Kingdom of Italy. His father,Massimo Calabresi (1903–1988),was a cardiologist,[1] and his mother,Bianca Maria Finzi-Contini Calabresi (1902–1982),was a scholar of European literature. Calabresi's parents were active in the resistance against Italian fascism and eventually fled Italy,immigrating to the United States in 1939. The family settled in New Haven,Connecticut,and became naturalized American citizens in 1948. Guido's older brother Paul Calabresi (1930–2003) was a prominent medical and pharmacological researcher of cancer and oncology. Calabresi's mother descends from an Italian-Jewish family.[2]
Calabresi had been offered a full professorship at the University of Chicago Law School in 1960.[3] However,he joined the faculty of the Yale Law School upon completion of his Supreme Court clerkship,becoming the youngest ever full professor at Yale Law,and was Dean from 1985 to 1994. He now is SterlingProfessor Emeritus of Law and Professorial Lecturer in Law at Yale.
Calabresi is,along with Ronald Coase,a founder of law and economics. His pioneering contributions to the field include the application of economic reasoning to tort law,and a legal interpretation of the Coase theorem. Under Calabresi's intellectual and administrative leadership,Yale Law School became a leading center for legal scholarship imbued with economics and other social sciences. Calabresi has been awarded more than forty honorary degrees from universities across the world. He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.[5]
In 2006,Yale created the Guido Calabresi Professorship of Law,with Kenji Yoshino serving as the inaugural professor of the endowed chair. Daniel Markovits is the current holder of the chair.
Calabresi is an Honorary Editor of the University of Bologna Law Review,a general student-edited law journal published by the Department of Legal Studies of the University of Bologna.[10]
Calabresi is the author of four books and over 100 articles on law and related subjects.
1982 "A Common Law For The Age of Statutes," (Harvard University Press).
1978 (with Philip Bobbit)"Tragic Choices. The conflicts society confronts in the allocation of tragically scarce resources." (WW Norton and Company New York,NY)
2016 "The Future of Law &Economics:Essays in Reform and Recollection" Tragic Choices. The conflicts society confronts in the allocation of tragically scarce resources." Yale University Press.
United States v. Calvin Weaver,18-1697 (2nd Cir. 2021). In a case regarding an unwarranted police search of a Black man walking by,Calabresi was one of three dissenters who argued that the search violated the 4th amendment. The other two dissenters were Rosemary Pooler and Denny Chin. Calabresi explained that "The majority begins its opinion by saying that this is an ordinary case of an ordinary police search. That,unfortunately,is all too true. But though ordinary,and very common,the facts of this case,and the fact that a strong majority made up of thoughtful judges comes out as it does,demonstrates beyond peradventure why this area of the law is so disastrous."[16]
Mujo v. Jani-King International,Inc.,20-111 (2nd Cir. 2021). Calabresi dissented from a ruling that permitted a corporation to require employees to sign a contract giving the corporation power to take part of their salary despite Connecticut's minimum wage laws.[17]
Personal life
Calabresi married Anne Gordon Audubon Tyler,a social anthropologist,freelance writer,social activist,philanthropist and arts patron. Both received their primary education at the Foote School in New Haven,graduating in 1946 and 1948,respectively. Calabresi would continue on to receive his secondary education from Hopkins School,graduating in 1949.
They reside in Woodbridge,Connecticut,and have three children. Anne Gordon Audubon Calabresi (Anne Calabresi Oldshue),a psychiatrist,graduated cum laude from Yale,attended medical school at Case Western Reserve University and completed residency at Harvard.[18] Massimo Franklin Tyler Calabresi,a journalist with Time magazine,also graduated from Yale.[19] Bianca Finzi-Contini Calabresi attended Yale as well,graduating summa cum laude,and has a Ph.D. in Renaissance literature from Columbia.[20] Calabresi's nephew,Steven G. Calabresi,is a Constitutional Law professor at Northwestern University and a co-founder of the Federalist Society.
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