Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American judge Guido Calabresi.
Last updated on November 17, 2024.
Guido Calabresi is an Italian-born American legal scholar and Senior United States 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.
You never replace a great scholar who retires. If you try to do that, you end up with burnt-out volcanoes.
There is something particularly appealing about teaching a subject that seems to deal with the lowest kind of relationships-accidents, ambulance chasing-because you can show students that these raise the most fundamental questions about the structure of society.
The reason I emphasize that is because that is exactly what happened when Mussolini was put in by the king of Italy.