Outside in : the oral history of Guido Calabresi / Norman I. Silber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Silber, Norman Isaac, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Judges--United States--Interviews.

Judges.

Law teachers--United States--Interviews.

Law teachers.

Calabresi, Guido, 1932---Interviews.

Calabresi, Guido.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (476 pages) : illustrations

Other Title:

Outside In

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Summary:

"My behavior is not a Yankee's behavior. It just is not, no matter what. My family was Italian, and different from most other Italian immigrants. We did not need to melt in. We did not need to assimilate, because of who we were and what we came from. While other people were painting themselves red, white, and blue, we talked Italian, absorbed our family's history, and thought of ourselves as being what we always were. In the deepest sense, I was never taught to be a Yankee, which is a fact that comes out in any number of the things that I do and try to accomplish. Some people have the feeling that what I write and say is too subtle, or perhaps manipulative; or that I behave a bit outlandishly; but those people do not put what I do in the context of Italy, in the context of that very old, very subtle, very complicated society, which I come from"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Finzi-Contini and Del Vecchio

Minerbi and Calabresi

Anti-fascist Jews in dark times

Departure and arrival

Out of place

Our wartime

Postwar dilemmas

Graspingan education

Embracing catholicismat the old palace

A law student at mid-century

Justice black

Law through an economic lens

Courtship

Deep structures in the law

Subterfuges and tragic choices

Teaching Aware

Judicial sunset

To be a dean

The dean's new day

Independence

Restoring the law school building

Almost a justice : Robert Bork

Conflict, community, and confidence : the wall

Clarence, Anita, Catharine, Jack - and Yale

Bill wants him

Joining the Second Circuit

The Tort Law opinions of a torts professor

The anti-discrimination law reasoning of an outsider

The analytical reasoning of a behavioral economist

The immigration law decisions of an immigrant

Calabresian complexities and the value of dialogue

An egalitarian believer's First Amendment

Craft, independence, and ideology

Giustizia e Liberte' recollected : bad laws and injustices

CODA

Explanations in the garden.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-763516-4

0-19-763514-8