Steven G. Calabresi

George C. Dix Professor of Law

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

Is the Separation of Powers Exportable?, 33 HARVARD JOURNAL OF LAW & PUBLIC POLICY 5-16 , 2010
On Section 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment i, 11 UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA JOURNAL OF CONSTITUTIONAL LAW 1431-1450 , 2009
The Number of States and the Economics of American Federalism
The Fatally Flawed Theory of the Unbundled Executive , 93 MINNESOTA LAW REVIEW 1696-1740, 2009
The entry for Robert H. Bork , Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law 63-64, 2009

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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