Steven Calabresi

{{Infobox academic | name = Steven Calabresi | education = {{Unbulleted list|[[Yale University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]], [[Juris Doctor|JD]])}} | discipline = Constitutional law | workplaces = [[Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law|Northwestern University]]<br />[[Federalist Society]] | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1958|03|01}} | relatives = [[Guido Calabresi]] (uncle) | birth_name = Steven Gow Calabresi | influences = {{hlist|[[Ralph K. Winter Jr.]]|[[Robert Bork]]|[[Antonin Scalia]]}} | title = Clayton J. and Henry R. Barber Professor of Law }}

'''Steven Gow Calabresi''' (born March 1, 1958) is an American legal scholar who is the Clayton J. and Henry R. Barber Professor of Law at [[Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law|Northwestern University]]. He is the co-chairman of the [[Federalist Society]]. He is the nephew of [[Guido Calabresi]], a [[U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit|U.S. Appellate judge]] and former dean of the [[Yale Law School]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/01/politics/politicsspecial1/01federalist.html |title=Debating the Subtle Sway of the Federalist Society |last=DeParle |first=Jason |date=2005-08-01 |website=The New York Times}}</ref>

==Early life and education== Calabresi graduated from the [[Moses Brown School]] in [[Providence, Rhode Island]], in 1976. He then attended [[Yale College]], graduating ''[[cum laude]]'' in 1980.<ref name=NWFacultyProfile>{{cite web |url=http://www.law.northwestern.edu/faculty/profiles/StevenCalabresi/ |title=Steven G. Calabresi |website=Northwestern Pritzker School of Law}}</ref> He received his J.D. degree from [[Yale Law School]], where he was the Note & Topics Editor of the ''[[Yale Law Journal]]''. After law school, he served as [[law clerk]] for Judge [[Ralph K. Winter]] of the [[U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit]], Judge [[Robert Bork]] of the [[U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit]], and Justice [[Antonin Scalia]] of the [[United States Supreme Court]]. While at Yale Law School, Calabresi and two Yale College friends, Lee Liberman Otis and David McIntosh, founded the Yale chapter of the [[Federalist Society]], one of the Society's three original chapters.{{cn|date=June 2024}}

==Teaching career== Calabresi joined the faculty of Northwestern Law School in 1990. He has been a visiting professor at Yale Law School (in the fall semesters of 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016), and a visiting professor of political theory at [[Brown University]], where he has taught since 2010.

==Political career== Calabresi served under presidents [[Ronald Reagan]] and [[George H. W. Bush]] from 1985 to 1990.<ref name=NWFacultyProfile/> During that time, he advised Attorney General [[Edwin Meese III]], and Reagan Domestic Policy Chief [[T. Kenneth Cribb]], and wrote campaign speeches for Vice President [[Dan Quayle]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.law.northwestern.edu/faculty/assets/documents/cv-CalabresiStevenG_v2016-05-24;131601.pdf |title=Steven G. Calabresi [CV] |website=Northwestern Pritzker School of Law}}</ref> Calabresi supported legally recognizing same-sex marriages.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/04/22/freedom_to_marry_freedom_to_dissent_why_we_must_have_both_122376.html |title=Freedom to Marry, Freedom to Dissent: Why We Must Have Both |website=RealClearPolitics |date=2014-04-22}}</ref> In 2016, Calabresi endowed the Abraham Lincoln Lecture on Constitutional Law at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law in Chicago. The lecture's purpose is to show Lincoln's enormous talent as a constitutional lawyer and to reflect on what legal changes Lincoln's legacy might appropriately call for today.{{cn|date=June 2024}}

With [[Gary S. Lawson]], Calabresi argued that the [[Mueller special counsel investigation|Mueller Probe]] was unlawful.<ref name="bostonubiolawson">{{Cite web |url=http://www.bu.edu/law/profile/gary-s-lawson/ |title=Gary S. Lawson |publisher=Boston University School of Law |access-date=May 10, 2017}}</ref>{{citation needed|date=January 2023}}

In July 2020, Calabresi wrote a ''New York Times'' editorial condemning a tweet<ref>{{cite web |url=https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1288818160389558273 | title=Trump tweet on 8:46 AM · Jul 30, 2020}}</ref> by [[President Trump]] that floated postponing the 2020 election. Calabresi said the tweet "frankly appalled" him, called it "fascistic", and said it was "itself grounds for the president’s immediate impeachment again by the House of Representatives and his removal from office by the Senate."<ref>{{Cite news|last=Calabresi|first=Steven G.|date=2020-07-30|title=Opinion {{!}} Trump Might Try to Postpone the Election. That's Unconstitutional|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/30/opinion/trump-delay-election-coronavirus.html|access-date=2020-07-30|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

On January 13, 2021, Calabresi and Democrat [[Norman Eisen]] co-wrote an op-ed in ''The New York Times'' saying that President Trump should be charged and impeached in a second trial before the end of his term in office or immediately after for what he said and did on January 6 and for his effort to subvert Georgia's election results by asking the secretary of state "to find" enough votes for him to win the state. The authors said that the Senate should disqualify Trump from ever holding any public office again after convicting him. They wrote that the recordings of Trump's phone call and his speech to supporters on January 6 were enough evidence to convict on those charges.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/13/opinion/trump-impeachment-bipartisan.html|title=We Disagree on a Lot. But We Both Think Trump Should Be Convicted.|work=The New York Times |date=January 13, 2021 |last1=Calabresi |first1=Steven G. |last2=Eisen |first2=Norman }}</ref>

==Selected publications== Calabresi has published more than 65 articles in [[law review]]s, including: *{{cite journal |last1=Lawson |first1=Gary |last2=Calabresi |first2=Steven |title=Why Robert Mueller's Appointment As Special Counsel Was Unlawful |journal=Notre Dame Law Review |date=2019 |volume=95 |issue=1 |page=87 |url=https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/583/}} *Calabresi, Steven G. "" A Government of Limited and Enumerated Powers": In Defense of United States v. Lopez." ''Michigan Law Review'' 94.3 (1995): 752-831. *Calabresi, Steven G., and Sarah E. Agudo. "Individuals Rights under State Constitutions When the Fourteenth Amendment Was Ratified in 1868: What Rights Are Deeply Rooted in American History and Tradition." ''Tex. L. Rev.'' 87 (2008): 7 *Calabresi, Steven G., and Gary Lawson. "The Unitary Executive, Jurisdiction Stripping, and the Hamdan Opinions: A Textualist Response to Justice Scalia." ''Colum. L. Rev.'' 107 (2007): 1002. *Calabresi, Steven G., and Saikrishna B. Prakash. "The President's Power to Execute the Laws." ''Yale LJ'' 104 (1994): 541. *Calabresi, Steven G., and Kevin H. Rhodes. "The Structural Constitution: Unitary Executive, Plural Judiciary" ''Harv. L. Rev.'' 105 (1991): 1153.

He has written or edited several books, including: * Calabresi, S. G. (2007). ''Originalism: a Quarter Century of Debate''. Regnery Press. * Calabresi, Steven G., and Christopher S. Yoo. ''The Unitary Executive: Presidential Power from Washington to Bush''. Yale University Press, 2008. *Michael Stokes Paulsen, Steven G. Calabresi, Michael W. McConnell, Samuel Bray & William Baude, ''The Constitution of the United States.'' (Foundation Press 2010) [casebook] (2d ed. 2013) (3d ed. 2017). *{{cite book|last=Calabresi|first=Steven Gow|author-link=Steven Calabresi|title=The History and Growth of Judicial Review, Volume 1: The G-20 Common Law Countries and Israel|location=Oxford and New York|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2021|isbn=9780190075798|doi=10.1093/oso/9780190075774.001.0001}}

== See also == * [[List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States (Seat 9)]]

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==External links== * {{C-SPAN|11921}}

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