Dr. Steven Calabresi

Biography

Professor Calabresi served as a Law Clerk for Justice Antonin Scalia of the United States Supreme Court and clerked for U.S. Court Appeals Judges Robert H. Bork and Ralph K. Winter. From 1985 to 1990, he was involved in the Reagan and Bush Administrations, working in the West Wing of the Reagan White House and the U.S. Department of Justice. In 1982, Professor Calabresi co-founded the Federalist Society for Law & Public Policy Studies, a national organization of conservative and libertarian lawyers and law students, and he currently serves as the Chairman of the Society’s Board of Directors, a position he has held since 1986. He has published more than sixty articles and comments in prominent law reviews across the country. Calabresi is the author of "The Unitary Executive: Presidential Power from Washington to Bush" (Yale University Press 2008) and co-author of "The Constitution of the United States" (2nd ed. Foundation Press 2013), a constitutional law casebook. His teaching interests include Constitutional Law II, Federal Jurisdiction, Comparative Law, Comparative Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, Antitrust, along with seminars on privatization and various constitutional law topics.

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