Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents: Volume I – Introduction: Immigrant and Refugee – Part One:Italian Past – 1. Dark Times – 2. Departure and Arrival – 3. Finzi-Contini and Del Vecchio – 4. Minerbi and Calabresi – 5. Out of Place – 6. Our Wartime – 7. Postwar Dilemmas – Part Two:Student, Teacher, and Scholar – 8. Grasping an Education – 9. Embracing Catholicism at the Old Palace – 10. A Law Student at Mid-Century – 11. Justice Black – 12. Law Through an Economic Lens – 13. Courtship – 14. Deep Structures in the Law – 15. Subterfuges and Tragic Choices – 16. Teaching Aware – 17. Judicial Sunset

In the first volume of Outside In, Guido Calabresi describes his family’s dramatic departure from Italy in the shadow of World War II, his upbringing in New Haven, his growth as a student, and then his life as a scholar and teacher at Yale. Part One talks about arriving in America, penniless but with a great cultural inheritance—a deep awareness that there had been, spread throughout the family’s past and on both sides, for many generations—not just wealth, but social standing, a proud Italian-Jewish heritage, creativity, and intellectual accomplishment. His father, furthermore, had been an active antifascist, and both parents held liberal political and social views. This inheritance created a reservoir of confidence; an impetus for achievement; and, as a scholar, a source of insights and creative ideas about motivations, incentives, and the ways events and conditions influence choices. In Part Two, he reflects on his schooling, on the building of his career, and on the writing of pathbreaking articles and books that opened new fields—in law and economics, in Legal Theory, in Behavioral Economics—and which shattered previous assumptions about the place of statutes in the law. In the process, Guido reflects on his search to understand and make connections between law and fundamental human values.