Guido Calabresi at a glance
- Current role
- U.S. Circuit Judge
- Court
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
- Jurisdiction
- National federal courts · Federal
- Judicial service
- Senior
Guido Calabresi
U.S. Circuit Judge · U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Available research
Biography
Professional career
- Law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black (1958–1959).
- dean, 1985-1994
- Town selectman, Woodbridge, CT, 1971-1975
- Professor, Yale Law School, 1959-1994
- Law clerk, Hon. Hugo Black, Supreme Court of the United States, 1958-1959
Judicial service
- Judge, Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 1994-2009
- Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
- Senior Judge: Since July 21, 2009.
- Appointed: July 1994 as a United States Circuit Judge for the Second Circuit; entered duty September 16, 1994.
- Background: Before his judicial appointment, he was Dean of Yale Law School (1985–1994) and a Sterling Professor of Law.
- 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
- Yale University · B.S., 1953
- Hopkins School
- Timothy Dwight College
- Magdalen College · B.A., 1955
Personal record
Born 1932 · Milan, Italy
Courtroom rules and guidance
Appellate Oral Argument
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.
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 unnecessaryFederal Rule of Appellate Procedure 34, Oral Argument ↗
Sources
Federal Judicial Center biography
Identity source · HTML · checked July 25, 2026
https://www.fjc.gov/node/1378726CourtListener judicial biographical directory
Identity source · HTML · checked August 2, 2026
https://www.courtlistener.com/person/506/guido-calabresi/Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 34, Oral Argument
Judge research source · HTML · checked July 26, 2026
https://www.uscourts.gov/forms-rules/current-rules-practice-procedure/federal-rules-appellate-procedureFederal Judicial Center — Biographical Directory of Federal Judges
Identity source · TEXT · checked September 8, 2026
https://www.fjc.gov/sites/default/files/history/judges.csv