Guido Calabresi, A Common Law For The Age of Statutes

I confess at the outset to a divided view of Professor Guido Calabresi's book A Common Law For The Age of Statutes. It is not a division over either the value or the importance of the book, for my admiration for the depth, symmetry and even beauty of Professor Calabresi's argument is firm. I am divided, rather, between my view of Calabresi's diagnosis of the illness afflicting late twentieth century American law and my view of his prescription for it.