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Calabresi, Guido was born on October 19, 1932 in Milan, Italy. Son of Massimo and Bianca Maria (Finzi Contini) Calabresi.
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Calabresi, Guido. A Common Law for the Age of Statutes. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1982. xi, 319 pp. Reprinted 2000 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. LCCN 99-44889. ISBN 1-58477-040-6. Hardcover. New. Calabresi complains that we are "choking on statutes" and proposes a restoration of the courts to their common law function. From a series of lectures given by Calabresi as part of The Oliver Wendell Holmes Lectures delivered at Harvard Law School in March 1977.
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Accident law is currently under review throughout the United States, and indeed the world, as present systems prove increasingly inadequate to handle the mounting costs of automobile accidents. In this pioneering work, Guido Calabresi develops a framework for evaluating different systems of accident law. Defining the goal of accident law as the maximum reduction of accident and accident avoidance costs that can be achieved fairly, he examines ten political and economic choices implied in various approaches to reducing these costs. Calabresi then considers two fundamental problems all systems of accident law must face: who should be held responsible for accident costs, and how should they be valued? He analyzes the fault-insurance system now widely used and finds it wanting on grounds both of cost reduction objectives and fairness. In conclusion, he discusses recent proposals for reform of the law, points out questions they raise, and ends by indicating the two he thinks most likely to prevail and the fundamental conflict between them. “Calabresi’s book is most significant for its first-rate combination of modern economic analysis and legal policy. The methodology and underlying principles extend far beyond the particular subject matter of accident law to many other legal areas that could benefit from economic analysis. In turn, some economic analyses may become the richer for the discussion in this book. It is truly one of those rare important volumes.”―Gerald M Meier
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The dominance of legislatures and statutory law has put an impossible burden on the courts. Guido Calabresi thinks it is time for this country seriously to consider returning to a traditional American judicial-legislative balance in which courts would enlarge the common law and would also decide when a rule of law has seen its day and should be revised.
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Calabresi, Guido was born on October 19, 1932 in Milan, Italy. Son of Massimo and Bianca Maria (Finzi Contini) Calabresi.
Bachelor of Science in Analytical Economics, Yale University, 1953; Bachelor of Laws, Yale University, 1958; Master of Arts (honorary), Yale University, 1962; Bachelor in Politics, Philosophy and Economics, University of Oxford, 1955; Master of Arts in Politics, Philosophy and Economics, University of Oxford, 1959; Doctor of Laws (honorary), Notre Dame U., 1979; Doctor of Laws (honorary), Villanova U., 1984; Doctor of Laws (honorary), University Toronto, 1985; Doctor of Laws (honorary), Boston College, 1986; Doctor of Laws (honorary), Catholic U. American, 1986; Doctor of Laws (honorary), University Chicago, 1988.
Assistant instructor department economics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1955-1956;
law clerk to Justice Hugo Black, Supreme Court of the United States Court, Washington, 1958-1959;
assistant professor, Yale University Law School, 1959-1961;
associate professor, Yale University Law School, 1961-1962;
professor, Yale University Law School, 1962-1970;
John Thomas Smith professor of law, Yale University Law School, 1970-1978;
Sterling professor of law, Yale University Law School, 1978-1995;
professor emeritus, lecturer, Yale University, since 1995;
dean, Yale University Law School, 1985-1994;
Sterling professor of law emeritus, lecturer, Yale University Law School, New Haven, since 1995;
judge, United States Court Appeals 2d circuit, New Haven, since 1994. Fellow Timothy Dwight College, since 1960. Visiting professor Harvard University Law School, 1969-1970, Japan American Studies Seminar, Kyoto-Doshisha Universities, summer 1972, European U. Institute, Florence, Italy, 1979.
Arthur L. Goodhart professor legal science Cambridge U., also fellow St. John's College, 1980-1981.
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Honorary trustee Hopkins Grammar School, president 1976-1980. Trustee St. Thomas More Chapel, Yale University. Vice chairman of the board of trustees Carolyn Foundation, Minnesota.
Fellow American Academy Arts & Sciences, Associazione Italiana di Diritto Comparato, British Academy (correspondent), Royal Swedish Academy Sciences (foreign), Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (foreign), Accademia delle Scienze di Torino (foreign). Member Connecticut Bar Association, Association American Law Schools (Executive Committee 1986-1989), American Philosophical Society.
Married Anne Gordon Audubon Tyler, May 20, 1961. Children: Bianca Finzi Contini, Anne Gordon Audubon, Massimo Franklin Tyler.