[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 152 (Wednesday, September 12, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Pages S6136-S6137]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS

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                       TRIBUTE TO GUIDO CALABRESI

 Mr. BLUMENTHAL. Mr. President, today I recognize Judge Guido 
Calabresi, a dedicated public servant and professor who is celebrating 
70 years as a naturalized citizen of the United States on September 16.
  His life and career constitute a legacy of commitment and passion for 
initiating positive change. A deeply insightful and tirelessly driven 
person, he is recognized as a pioneer in the academic world who has 
spent six decades educating and serving others.
  In 1939, Judge Calabresi moved with his family to New York and then 
New Haven, CT, from Milan, Italy, where his parents were notable 
antifascist figures. Forbidden from bringing money with them to 
America, his family had to start again from scratch upon their arrival. 
Judge Calabresi and his older brother, Paul, worked to learn English 
and assimilate into their new home. Their father had a fellowship at 
Yale, which at the time had no Italian or Jewish faculty members, 
forcing the family to forge a unique identity at the institution.
  Young Guido devoted himself unstintingly to his studies. Once 
naturalized as a citizen, along with his parents and brother in 1948, 
he graduated summa cum laude from Yale in 1953 with a bachelor of 
science in economics, earned a bachelor of arts with first class honors 
from Oxford in 1955 as a Rhodes Scholar, and then a bachelor of laws 
magna cum laude from Yale Law School 5 years later and a master of arts 
the next year in 1959 from the University of Oxford in politics, 
philosophy, and economics.
  Judge Calabresi focused on legal scholarship starting in the late 
1950s, when he served as a law review member and note editor for the 
Yale Law Journal and graduated first in his class from the law school. 
After graduation, he clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice 
Hugo Black and went on to become the youngest full professor ever at 
Yale Law School.
  His impressive career led him to become dean of the Yale Law School 
for 9 years, ending in 1994. One of Judge Calabresi's most notable 
accomplishments in the academic world is his role as a founder of the 
subfield of law and

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economics along with Nobel Prize winner Ronald Coase. His public 
service included impressive charitable and local government activities, 
including as a town selectman in Woodbridge for 4 years, beginning in 
1971.
  In 1994, recognizing his extraordinary accomplishments as a teacher 
and scholar, President Bill Clinton nominated him to serve as a U.S. 
circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second 
Circuit. Confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Judge Calabresi joined the court 
in September 1994, 55 years after fleeing to America to escape Italian 
racial laws.
  Judge Calabresi was shaped throughout his education, as a lawyer, and 
as a judge by his experiences as a refugee who courageously forged his 
own path as a U.S. citizen. Now a senior judge for the Second Circuit 
and sterling professor emeritus of law and professional lecturer at 
Yale, he has written seven books and more than 100 articles on law and 
other related subjects. He has also been awarded 50 honorary degrees 
from universities across the globe.
  With his remarkable record of public and academic service, Judge 
Calabresi is a credit to the State of Connecticut and to our country. 
His unfailing readiness to embrace new challenges and benefit his 
communities sets an inspiring model for all of us.
  I applaud his many accomplishments and hope my colleagues will join 
me in congratulating Judge Guido Calabresi on this landmark of 
attaining 70 years as a naturalized American citizen.

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