The annual Martin Buber Memorial Lecture for 2016 was delivered on December 20, 2016, by Prof. Guido Calabresi, a judge in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and emeritus Dean of the Law Faculty at Yale University. Prof. Calabresi’s research on law and economics is a landmark in the history of American civil law. A distinguished scholar, educator and jurist, he has exerted a formative influence on the instruction of law in the United States in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Prof. Calabresi has warm ties to Israel and is a relative of the late Prof. Gad Tedeschi, who was among the founders of the Law Faculty at Tel Aviv University and a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
Prof. Calabresi’s lecture was entitled: