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Friday, January 20, 2023

Outside In: The Oral History of Guido Calabresi

Norman Silber has published Outside In:  The Oral History of Guido Calabresi with Oxford University Press.  The blurb provides:

Guido Calabresi is an extraordinary person. His family, of Jewish heritage, occupied a secure and centuries-old position near the top of Italian society-- until the rise of fascism. Guido's parents fled to America on the eve of the war in Europe, with their children, to avoid political and religious persecution. They arrived without money or social standing. Guido's talents and good fortune helped him to thrive at several elite American institutions and to become a leading legal scholar, teacher, law school dean, and judge. He would receive prizes and awards for his contributions; to legal theory, especially for opening up the area of 'law and economics'; for contributions to the modern transformation of American law schools, as the Dean of Yale Law School; and for advancing the development of law including through progressive decisions as a member of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Outside In is a unique sort of account, written in Guido's remarkable voice based on recordings that which took place over a decade. The book is a unique amalgam of oral history and biography, with supplementary commentaries to explain, elaborate, validate, and interpret and situate the personal narrative within its larger historical context.

Updated:  The author was kind enough to provide a code for 30% off:  ALAUTHC4 

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Thanks kindly for this book notice--I hope you will enjoy OUTSIDE IN: THE ORAL HISTORY OF GUIDO CALABRESI. Here is a code that should provide you a 30% discount for buying on the OUP website. This should take the price down from $99 to $66 for the two volumes. Here is the code: ALAUTHC4
Best wishes, Norman

Posted by: NORMAN SILBER | Jan 25, 2023 7:09:35 AM

Actually $69.

Posted by: NORMAN SILBER | Jan 25, 2023 7:11:37 AM

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