A Common Law for the Age of Statutes Author:Guido Calabresi Calabresi, Guido. A Common Law for the Age of Statutes. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1982. xi, 319 pp. Reprinted 2000 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. LCCN 99-44889. ISBN 1-58477-040-6. Cloth. $85. Calabresi complains that we are "choking on statutes" and proposes a restoration of the courts to their common law function. From a series of... more » lectures given by Calabresi as part of The Oliver Wendell Holmes Lectures delivered at Harvard Law School in March 1977.« less