Guido Calabresi

Why Is Guido Calabresi Influential?

According to Wikipedia, Guido Calabresi is an Italian-born American legal scholar who serves as a Senior circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He is a former Dean of Yale Law School, where he has been a professor since 1959. Calabresi is considered, along with Ronald Coase and Richard Posner, a founder of the field of law and economics.

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Guido Calabresi's Published Works

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Published Works

Property Rules, Liability Rules, and Inalienability: One View of the Cathedral (1972) (1533)
The costs of accidents : a legal and economic analysis (1971) (485)
Some Thoughts on Risk Distributions and the Law of Torts (1961) (322)
The Costs of Accidents (1970) (238)
Transaction Costs, Resource Allocation and Liability Rules--A Comment (1968) (180)
The Pointlessness of Pareto: Carrying Coase Further (1991) (160)
Concerning Cause and the Law of Torts: An Essay for Harry Kalven, Jr. (1975) (119)
A Common Law for the Age of Statutes (1982) (110)
The Decision for Accidents: An Approach to Nonfault Allocation of Costs (1965) (98)
Commentary on Toward a Test for Strict Liability in Torts (1972) (76)
Of Merit Goods (2016) (50)
Four Tests for Liability in Torts (1985) (35)
Optimal Deterrence and Accidents: To Fleming James, Jr. (1975) (34)
The Exclusionary Rule (2003) (30)
An Exchange: About Law and Economics: A Letter to Ronald Dworkin (1980) (25)
Commentary on Some Thoughts on Risk Distribution and the Law of Torts (1991) (25)
Optimal Deterrence and Accidents (1975) (24)
New Directions in Tort Law (1996) (24)
Neural networks for the oil spill detection using ERS-SAR data (1999) (23)
The Use of ERS SAR for Flood Monitoring: AN Overall Assessment (1996) (23)
An introduction to legal thought: four approaches to law and to the allocation of body parts. (2003) (23)
Ideals, Beliefs, Attitudes, and the Law: Private Law Perspectives on a Public Law Problem (1985) (22)
Prosecuting the Womb (2008) (20)
Does the Fault System Optimally Control Primary Accident Costs (1968) (19)
Right Approach, Wrong Implications: A Critique of McKean on Products Liability (1970) (16)
Do we own our bodies? (1991) (16)
Fault, Accidents, and the Wonderful World of Blum and Kalven (1965) (15)
Risk, Harm, Interests and Rights (2007) (15)
Torts—The Law of the Mixed Society (1978) (14)
The costs of class actions: allocation and collective redress in the US experience (2011) (13)
First Party, Third Party, and Product Liability Systems: Can Economic Analysis of Law Tell Us Anything About Them? (1984) (11)
The new economic analysis of law : scholarship, sophistry, or self-indulgence? (1983) (11)
The Problem of Malpractice: Trying to Round Out the Circle (1977) (10)
Remarks: The Simple Virtues of The Cathedral (1997) (9)
Toward a test for the strict liabilility in torts (1998) (9)
A Broader View of the Cathedral: The Significance of the Liability Rule, Correcting a Misapprehension (2014) (8)
Economic, Moral Philosophy, and the Positive Analysis of Tort Law (2001) (7)
The Future of Law and Economics: Comments and Reflections (2017) (6)
Two Functions of Formalism: In Memory of Guido Tedeschi (2000) (6)
Forward: Antidiscrimination and Constitutional Accountability (What the Bork-Brennan Debate Ignores), The Supreme Court 1990 Term (1991) (6)
Federal and State Courts: Restoring a Workable Balance (2003) (5)
Bakke as Pseudo-Tragedy (1979) (5)
Of Tastes and Values (2014) (5)
The Supreme Court, 1990 Term (1991) (4)
Reflections of a Torts Teacher on the Bench (2018) (4)
What Makes a Judge Great: To A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. (1993) (4)
The Federal Judicial Law Clerk Hiring Problem and the Modest March 1 Solution (1994) (4)
>b>SYMPOSIUM Do We Own Our Bodies? (1991) (4)
Chicago Law and Economics (2020) (4)
Product Liability: Curse or Bulwark of Free Enterprise (1978) (3)
Exploring Tort Law: THE COMPLEXITY OF TORTS – THE CASE OF PUNITIVE DAMAGES (2005) (3)
Policy Goals of the “Swedish Alternative” (1986) (3)
Reglas de la Propiedad, Reglas de la Responsabilidad e Inalienabilidad: Un vistazo a la Catedral (1992) (3)
The Nonprimacy of Statutes Act: A Comment (1979) (2)
Toward A Unified Theory of Torts (2007) (2)
Road Signs and the Goals of Justice (1987) (2)
The Generosity of a Dean (2003) (2)
The Current Subtle—and Not So Subtle—Rejection of an Independent Judiciary (2002) (2)
Calabresian Sunset: Statutes in the Shade (1982) (2)
"You Can Call It Thucydides or You Can Call It Mustard Plaster, But It's All Proximate Cause Just The Same!" (1981) (2)
Being Honest About Being Honest Agents (2010) (2)
Changes for Automobile Claims? Views and Overviews (1967) (1)
Birth, death, and the law. (1974) (1)
The Shifting Sands of Legal Topography (1982) (1)
Class action in the U. S. experience: the legal perspective (2012) (1)
FOCUS EARTH: BOTSWANA (1999) (1)
The Future of Law and Economics (2020) (1)
Restatement of Torts (2017) (1)
Tom Emerson: Law in the Service of Justice (1988) (1)
"We Imagine the Past to Remember the Future"-Between Law, Economics, and Justice in Our Era and According to Maimonides (2014) (1)
The Problem of Obsolete Statutes: A New Role for Courts? (1982) (1)
The New York Plan: A Free Choice Modification (1971) (1)
The Costs of Attitudes (1986) (0)
Tribute to John Sexton (2004) (0)
Of Merit Goods Generally (2016) (0)
Markets, Morals and the Law, Jules L. Coleman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 19S8, xvii t-393 pages (1991) (0)
Comments on: Is There a Threat to Judicial Independence in the United States Today? (1998) (0)
Of Merit Goods and Inequality (2016) (0)
John Attanasio Dedication (2014) (0)
Louis H. Pollak, Generosity, and Subtlety: A Student's View (1978) (0)
Gary Schwartz: The Beauty of Balance (2002) (0)
Of the Relationship of Markets and Command in the Liability Rule (2016) (0)
ALGORITHMIC CENTRAL PLANNING: BETWEEN EFFICIENCY AND FREEDOM (2020) (0)
Federalism and Moral Disagreement (2016) (0)
Emotional Distress Award (2017) (0)
Proof of Employer Negligence (2017) (0)
Federal and State Courts (2013) (0)
Of Law and Economics and Economic Analysis of Law: The Role of the Lawyer (2019) (0)
Jay Katz and Law and Medicine at Yale (1988) (0)
Retrieval of Landuse and Hydrology-based Parameters from Remote Sensing Satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar Data: The Case of the Volta Lake Basin in Ghana (1999) (0)
The role of satellite observations in the management of environmental resources, with particular regard to the Agresite project (1977) (0)
1-1-1985 Four Tests for Liability in Torts (2013) (0)
Coals to Newcastle or Doggerel for a Poet: A Tribute to John Simon (1992) (0)
Judicial Circuits—United States Courts of Appeals—Continued (2006) (0)
Negligence of Bicyclist (2017) (0)
THE SUPREME COURT (2011) (0)
The Generosity of a Dean: Tribute to Eugene V. Rostow (2003) (0)
"When Ideals Clash": Smith, Calabresi, and the Priority of the Right over the Good@@@Ideals, Beliefs, Attitudes, and the Law: Private Law Perspectives on a Public Law Problem@@@Liberalism and American Constitutional Law (1987) (0)
Louis H. Pollak: 7 December 1922 - 8 May 2012. (2014) (0)
In Honor of Professor Lawrence Iannotti (1997) (0)
Tribute to Justice Sonia Sotomayor (2017) (0)
Louis H. Pollak (2014) (0)
Modes of Choice (1978) (0)
Of Tastes and Values Ignored (2016) (0)
Omissions Liability Policy (2017) (0)
70th Commencement Address (1988) (0)
Calabresi: An Addendum (1982) (0)
Equality in the American Constitution (2004) (0)
Tributes to Professor Oscar S. Gray (2020) (0)
Harry’s Influence (2001) (0)
Between Brennan and Bork: The Role of the Court in Protecting Fundamental Rights (1987) (0)
Tribute to Joseph Goldstein (2000) (0)
The Cost of Accidents (2017) (0)
Of Law and Economics and Economic Analysis of Law (2016) (0)
Common Sense About the Age of Statutes (1983) (0)
Toxic Liver Injury (2017) (0)
2. Perspective on Sexual Harassment Law (2017) (0)
Of Altruism, Beneficence, and Not-for-Profit Institutions (2016) (0)
Symposium: The Passage of Time: The Implications for Product Liability: Commentary (1983) (0)
4. In Partial (but not Partisan) Praise of Principle (2017) (0)
Tom Emerson: The Scholar as Hero (1991) (0)
Professor Fleming James Jr (1904–1981) (2019) (0)
An Introduction to Law: Four Approaches to the Allocation of Body Parts (1997) (0)
Retroactivity: Paramount Powers and Contractual Changes (1962) (0)
Robinson-Patman Curtailments on Distribution Innovation: A Status Sought for Functional Discounts (1956) (0)
Joseph Goldstein: My Teacher (2001) (0)
Afterword (In Honor of Charles Black) (1986) (0)
Proof of Accretion (2017) (0)
On Tort Law's Dualisms (2022) (0)
Book Reviews (2014) (0)
Charles Black: Gentle Genius (2002) (0)
Reflections on Maimonides’ Tort Theory (2020) (0)
Closing Remarks: Jay Katz: From Adjunct to Core (2006) (0)
Grant Gilmore and the Golden Age (1982) (0)
Essay: Developing Appropriate Standards for Achieving Diversity in Faculty Appointments (2018) (0)
Remarks of Hon. Guido Calabresi (2010) (0)
Remarks Delivered at the Dedication of a New Building at Brooklyn Law School (1995) (0)
YALE LAW SCHOOL, Guido Calabresi Graduation Remarks, Delivered June 1, 2011 (2011) (0)
Proof of Value (2017) (0)
Values and the Law: 2010 AALS Annual Meeting Luncheon Keynote Address (2016) (0)
Civil Recourse Theory’s Reductionism (2013) (0)

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What Schools Are Affiliated With Guido Calabresi?

Guido Calabresi is affiliated with the following schools:

Yale University

What Are Guido Calabresi's Academic Contributions?

Guido Calabresi has made the following academic contributions:

The Costs of Accidents