Steven Calabresi
Phone: (312) 503-7012
E-mail: s-calabresi@law.northwestern.edu
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Steven G. Calabresi co-founded The Federalist Society and serves as the Chairman of the Society’s Board of Directors. He served in the Reagan and first Bush Administrations from 1985 to 1990 and advised Attorney General Edwin Meese III, Ronald Reagan’s Domestic Policy Chief, T. Kenneth Cribb, and he wrote speeches for former Vice President Dan Quayle. Since joining the Northwestern faculty in 1990, Calabresi has published more than 30 articles and comments in law reviews. He is the George C. Dix Professor of Constitutional Law for 1998-2000 and for 2004-2007.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Constitutional Law
- Comparative Law
- Federal Courts
COURSES
PUBLICATIONS
Representative Publications
- Term Limits for the Supreme Court: Life Tenure Reconsider, co-authored with James Lindgren
Recent Publications
- Substantive Due process After Gonzales v. Carhart, MICHIGAN LAW REVIEW, 2008
- Individual Rights Under State Bills of Rights When the Fourteenth Amendment Was Ratified in 1868: What Rights are Deeply Rooted in American History and Tradition?, TEXAS LAW REVIEW, 2008
- Render Unto Caesar That Which is Caesar’s, and Unto God That Which is God’s, HARVARD JOURNAL OF LAW & PUBLIC POLICY , 2008
- How to Reverse Government Imposition of Immorality: A Strategy for Eroding Roe v. Wade , HARVARD JOURNAL OF LAW & PUBLIC POLICY , 2008
- McCain and the Supreme Court, WALL STREET JOURNAL, 2008
EDUCATION
- BA cum laude, Yale University
- JD, Yale University
PRIOR APPOINTMENTS
- Scholar in residence, Harvard Law School
- Benjamin Mazur Summer Research Professor, 1998
- Associate Professor of Law, 1993-96; Assistant Professor of Law, 1990-93, Northwestern University School of Law
- Speechwriter to Vice President Dan Quayle, White House, 1990
- Research Associate, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 1988-90
- Law Clerk, Hon. Antonin Scalia, U.S. Supreme Court, 1987-88
RECENT CONSULTING ACTIVITIES
- Chairman, Board of Directors of the Federalist Society
- Editor, American Journal of Comparative Law
- Member, Oquosoc Angling Association

