10/07/2026
Spotlight for Italian American Heritage Month: Hon. Guido Calabresi 🇮🇹⚖️🇺🇸
Honorable Guido Calabresi is a distinguished jurist and legal scholar whose career spans decades of teaching, scholarship, and judicial service.
Judge Calabresi earned his B.S., summa cm laude, from Yale College in 1953. In 1955, he received a B.A. with First Class Honors from Magdalen College, Oxford University, as a Rhodes Scholar. He then returned to Yale Law School, earning his L.L.B., magna cm laude, in 1958, graduating first in his class. He then received an M.A. in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics from Oxtord University in 1959.
Following his graduation from Yale, he clerked for United States Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black. In 1959, Judge Calabresi also began teaching at Yale Law School, where he went on to become Dean and Sterling Professor. To date, he continues to serve Yale as Sterling Professor Emeritus and Professorial Lecturer.
In July 1994, Judge Calabresi was appointed a United States Circuit Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He was also the commencement speaker at the Pace Law School graduation, Class of 1988.
Judge Calabresi is the author of five books and numerous articles. His contributions to legal education have been
recognized through various honorary degrees from universities across the United States and abroad.
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