--- title: "Guido Calabresi | KnowJudges" canonical: "https://knowjudges.com/kyj/judge/guido-calabresi" page_type: "judge_profile" updated: "2026-10-09" --- # Guido Calabresi U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · U.S. Circuit Judge ## Profile - Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit - State: National federal courts - Role: U.S. Circuit Judge - Service status: senior - Last verified: 2026-07-25 ## Summary Official statewide and applicable court procedural guidance applies to this judge. ## Biography ### Professional career - Yale Law School: Professor since 1959 - Judge, Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 1994-2009 - Appointed: July 1994 as a United States Circuit Judge for the Second Circuit; entered duty September 16, 1994 - Before his judicial appointment, he was Dean of Yale Law School (1985–1994) and a Sterling Professor of Law. - Law clerk, Hon. Hugo Black, Supreme Court of the United States, 1958-1959 - Law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black (1958–1959) - Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit - In summary, Judge Guido Calabresi is a distinguished jurist and academic whose career spans high‐level judicial service, leadership at Yale Law School, and influential scholarship in legal theory and economics - Guido Calabresi is an Italian‐born American jurist who serves as a Senior Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and is also a former Dean of Yale Law School and a leading figure in the field of law and economics ### Education - Politics, Philosophy, and Economics, Oxford University — M.A. (1959) - Yale University — LL.B. (1958) - Yale Law School (magna cum laude, first in class) — LL.B. (1958) - Magdalen College, Oxford University (First Class Honors) — B.A. (1955) - Yale University — B.S. (1953) - Yale College (summa cum laude) — B.S. (1953) - Timothy Dwight College ### Additional information - Senior Judge: Since July 21, 2009. - Dean 1985–1994; now Sterling Professor Emeritus and Professorial Lecturer. - Scholarship: Author of multiple books, including The Cost of Accidents (1970) and A Common Law for the Age of Statutes (1982), and over 150 academic articles. - Town selectman, Woodbridge, CT, 1971-1975 - Public Service: held the role of town selectman for Woodbridge, Connecticut (1971–1975). - Date of birth: 1932-01-01 - Hopkins School - Rhodes Scholar; member of Phi Beta Kappa and Order of the Coif. - Recognized as one of the founders of the field of law and economics alongside Ronald Coase and Richard Posner. - Calabresi has received more than 50 honorary degrees from U.S. and international institutions. - Birth place: Milan, Italy ## Before you appear - Read the judge-specific standing order first when one is listed. - Check the docket and case orders for requirements that supersede broader guidance. - Confirm current remote-access and courtroom technology arrangements before the proceeding. ## Courtroom Rules ### appellate oral argument Scope: courtwide In federal courts of appeals, oral argument is allowed unless a three-judge panel unanimously finds one of Rule 34's specified grounds for dispensing with it; the clerk provides the date, time, place, and time allocation. Evidence excerpt: Oral argument must be allowed in every case unless a panel of three judges who have examined the briefs and record unanimously agrees that oral argument is unnecessary [Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 34, Oral Argument](https://www.uscourts.gov/forms-rules/current-rules-practice-procedure/federal-rules-appellate-procedure) Source checked: 2026-07-26 ## Sources - [Official profile](https://www.fjc.gov/node/1378726) - [Official roster](https://www.fjc.gov/node/1378726) - [Federal Judicial Center biography](https://www.fjc.gov/node/1378726) - [CourtListener judicial biographical directory](https://www.courtlistener.com/person/506/guido-calabresi/) - [Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 34, Oral Argument](https://www.uscourts.gov/forms-rules/current-rules-practice-procedure/federal-rules-appellate-procedure) - [Federal Judicial Center — Biographical Directory of Federal Judges](https://www.fjc.gov/sites/default/files/history/judges.csv) - [CourtListener judicial biographical directory](https://www.courtlistener.com/person/506/guido-calabresi/) - [Wikidata: Guido Calabresi](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q121995) ## JSON-LD ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "WebPage", "@id": "https://knowjudges.com/kyj/judge/guido-calabresi", "url": "https://knowjudges.com/kyj/judge/guido-calabresi", "name": "Guido Calabresi | KnowJudges", "description": "Guido Calabresi, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. 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