Judge Guido Calabresi (born 1932 in Milan, Italy) is currently a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Calabresi and his parents immigrated to the United States for political reasons in 1939 and became naturalized citizens in 1948. Calabresi was a Rhodes Scholar from 1953 to 1955. He received his law degree from the Yale Law School in 1958, was an editor of the law review, and was the Dean of the Yale Law School from 1985 to 1994. He holds the position of Sterling Professor Emeritus of Law and Professorial Lecturer in Law at the Yale Law School and has been awarded more than forty honorary degrees. 1932 (MCMXXXII) is a leap year starting on a Friday. ... Location within Italy Milan (Italian: Milano; Milanese dialect: Milán) is the main city in northern Italy, and is located in the plains of Lombardy, the most populated and developed region in Italy. ... A judge or justice is an official who presides over a court. ... The United States courts of appeals (or circuit courts) are the mid-level appellate courts of the United States federal court system. ... The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit is a federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the district courts in the following districts: District of Connecticut Northern, Southern, Eastern, and Western Districts of New York District of Vermont The Second Circuit hears argument at the Thurgood Marshall U... 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1948 (MCMXLVIII) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... Rhodes House in Oxford Rhodes Scholarships were created by Cecil John Rhodes. ... 1953 (MCMLIII) is a common year starting on Thursday. ... 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The degree of Bachelor of Laws is the principal academic degree in law in most common law countries. ... Yale Law School, in New Haven, Connecticut, is a division of Yale University. ... 1958 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A law review is a scholarly journal focusing on legal issues, published by an organization of students at a law school. ... In an educational setting, a dean is a person with significant authority . ... This article is about the year. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... A professor is a senior teacher and researcher, usually in a college or university. ... Aphorism Critical legal studies Jurisprudence Law (principle) Legal research Letter versus Spirit List of legal abbreviations Legal code Natural justice Natural law Philosophy of law Religious law External links Find more information on Law by searching one of Wikipedias sibling projects: Wikibooks Wikiversity has more about this subject: School... An Honorary Degree (Latin: honoris causa ad gradum) is an extra-ordinary academic degree awarded to an individual as a decoration, rather than as the result of matriculating and studying for several years. ...

Apart from an academic and judicial career, Calabresi is recognised as one of the founding fathers of law and economics. His two seminal contributions to the field are the application of economics to tort law, and a legal interpretation of the Coase theorem. Law and economics is the term usually applied to an approach to legal theory that incorporates methods and ideas borrowed from the discipline of economics. ... In the common law, a tort is a civil wrong for which the law provides a remedy. ... In law and economics, the Coase theorem, attributed to Ronald Coase, relates to the economic efficiency of a governments allocation of property rights. ...

In 1961, he published Some Thoughts on Risk Distribution and the Law of Torts in the Yale Law Journal. This research was subsequently expanded in his 1970 book, The Cost of Accidents: A Legal and Economic Analysis. His other major work in law and economics is an article written with Douglas Melamed titled Property Rules, Liability Rules and Inalienability: One View of the Cathedral and published in 1972 in the Harvard Law Review. This article has eventually become one of the most cited of all time. 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Yale Law Journal, published continuously since 1891, is by far the oldest and most widely known of the eight law reviews published by students at Yale Law School. ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ... The Harvard Law Review is a journal of legal scholarship published by a student-run group at Harvard Law School. ...

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