Calabresi
Guido Calabresi
Judge and legal scholar of accident law and economic analysis of torts
Official Source Note
Yale Law School lists Calabresi as Sterling Professor Emeritus of Law and Professorial Lecturer in Law and notes his service as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and as former dean of Yale Law School.
Calabresi is included because The Cost of Accidents and his work with A. Douglas Melamed made accident costs, entitlement protection, insurance, remedies, and institutional choice central to law-and-economics analysis.
Source: Yale Law School
Relevance to the Archive
Calabresi gives the archive a foundational account of accident costs, entitlement protection, risk distribution, and the limits of purely efficiency-based legal analysis.
Representative Contributions
- Some Thoughts on Risk Distribution and the Law of Torts (1961)
- The Cost of Accidents (1970)
- Property Rules, Liability Rules, and Inalienability (with A. Douglas Melamed)
Works Included Here
1961
Intermediate
1970
Advanced
1972
Intermediate
Property Rules, Liability Rules, and Inalienability: One View of the Cathedral
Guido Calabresi and A. Douglas Melamed
Harvard Law Review