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Outside In spans established categories of legal and historical writing. It is a legal history, an autobiographical oral history memoir, a biography, and a portrait of the life and times of Guido Calabresi, a scholar, a professor, a dean, and a judge.
List of contents
- VOLUME I
- Introduction to Volume I: Immigrant and Refugees
- PART ONE: ITALIAN PAST
- Chapter 1. Dark Times
- Chapter 2. Departure and Arrival
- Chapter 3. Finzi- Contini and Del Vecchio
- Chapter 4. Minerbi and Calabresi
- Chapter 5. Out of Place
- Chapter 6. Our Wartime
- Chapter 7. Postwar Dilemmas
- PART TWO: STUDENT, TEACHER, AND SCHOLAR
- Chapter 8. Grasping an Education
- Chapter 9. Embracing Catholicism at the Old Palace
- Chapter 10. A Law Student at Mid- Century
- Chapter 11. Justice Black
- Chapter 12. Law Through an Economic Lens
- Chapter 13. Courtship
- Chapter 14. Deep Structures in the Law
- Chapter 15. Subterfuges and Tragic Choices
- Chapter 16. Teaching Aware
- Chapter 17. Judicial Sunset
- VOLUME II
- PART THREE: LEADING YALE LAW SCHOOL
- Chapter 18. To Be a Dean
- Chapter 19. The Dean's New Day
- Chapter 20. Independence
- Chapter 21. Restoring the Law School Building
- Chapter 22. Almost a Justice: Robert Bork
- Chapter 23. Conflict, Community, and Confidence: The Wall
- Chapter 24. Clarence, Anita, Catharine, Jack- and Yale
- PART FOUR: SITTING ON THE SECOND CIRCUIT
- Chapter 25. Bill Wants Him
- Chapter 26. Joining the Second Circuit
- Chapter 27. The Tort Law Opinions of a Torts Professor
- Chapter 28. The Anti- Discrimination Law Reasoning of an Outsider
- Chapter 29. The Analytical Reasoning of a Behavioral Economist
- Chapter 30. Calabresian Complexities and the Value of Dialogue
- Chapter 31. The Immigration Law Decisions of an Immigrant
- Chapter 32. An Egalitarian Believer's First Amendment
- Chapter 33. Craft, Independence, and Ideology
- Chapter 34. Giustizia e Liberta' Recollected: Bad Laws and Injustices
- CODA
- Chapter 35. Explanations in The Garden
- IMAGE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INDEX
About the author
Norman I. Silber is a professor of law and the Associate Dean for Intellectual Life at the Maurice A. Deane School of Law, Hofstra University. He was previously a Senior Research Scholar at Yale Law School. He holds an undergraduate degree from Washington University, a J.D. from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. in history from Yale University.
Summary
Outside In spans established categories of legal and historical writing. It is a legal history, an autobiographical oral history memoir, a biography, and a portrait of the life and times of Guido Calabresi, a scholar, a professor, a dean, and a judge.
Additional text
This book combines family memoirs, an account of Jewish integration in Italy and the United States, an account of successful immigration, of the formation of a famous intellectual, of a piece of history of a renowned American university, and an investigation into American legal culture...The reader can learn the extraordinary story of adapting a family to a different environment; about how "trespassing" between scientific disciplines can produce invaluable results; about how to teach, to manage a faculty and argue in court; about the importance of the mastering legal theory. All this is told with great sincerity, making frequent use of anecdotes and narration of what happens behind the scenes-all this with the depth and richness of observations of a book of philosophy and a study of sociology.
