Guido Calabresi was born on October 18,1932 and is an Italian-born American jurist who serves as a senior circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
23 Facts About Guido Calabresi
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Guido Calabresi is a former Dean of Yale Law School, where he has been a professor since 1959.
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Guido Calabresi's father, Massimo Calabresi, was a cardiologist, and his mother, Bianca Maria Finzi-Contini Calabresi, was a scholar of European literature.
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Guido Calabresi's parents were active in the resistance against Italian fascism and eventually fled Italy, immigrating to the United States in 1939.
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Guido's older brother Paul Calabresi was a prominent medical and pharmacological researcher of cancer and oncology.
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Guido Calabresi describes himself as a "practicing Catholic" who believes in God.
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Guido Calabresi was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship and spent two years at Magdalen College, Oxford, receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree with first-class honours in 1955.
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Guido Calabresi then attended Yale Law School, where he was a notes editor for the Yale Law Journal.
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Guido Calabresi had been offered a full professorship at the University of Chicago Law School in 1960.
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Guido Calabresi now is Sterling Professor Emeritus of Law and Professorial Lecturer in Law at Yale.
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Guido Calabresi is a member of the Connecticut Bar Association and from 1971 to 1975 served as town selectman for Woodbridge, Connecticut.
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Guido Calabresi is, along with Ronald Coase, a founder of law and economics.
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Guido Calabresi's pioneering contributions to the field include the application of economic reasoning to tort law, and a legal interpretation of the Coase theorem.
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Guido Calabresi has been awarded more than forty honorary degrees from universities across the world.
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Guido Calabresi is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
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Guido Calabresi was confirmed by the United States Senate on July 18,1994.
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Guido Calabresi received his commission on July 21,1994 and entered duty on September 16,1994.
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In 1985, Guido Calabresi was awarded the Laetare Medal by the University of Notre Dame, the oldest and most prestigious award for American Catholics.
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Guido 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.
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Guido Calabresi is the author of four books and over 100 articles on law and related subjects.
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Guido Calabresi married Anne Gordon Audubon Tyler, a social anthropologist, freelance writer, social activist, philanthropist and arts patron.
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Guido Calabresi would continue on to receive his secondary education from Hopkins School, graduating in 1949.
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Guido Calabresi is a fan of Inter Milan and the New York Yankees.