Cass R. Sunstein
Cass R. Sunstein is the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard University. From 2009 to 2012 he was Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Office of Management and Budget. Before joining the Harvard faculty in 2008, he was Karl N. Llewellyn Distinguished Service Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Chicago Law School.
Professor Sunstein graduated in 1975 from Harvard College and in 1978 from Harvard Law School magna cum laude. After graduation, he clerked for Justice Benjamin Kaplan of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and Justice Thurgood Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court. Before joining the faculty of the University of Chicago, he was an attorney-advisor in the Office of Legal Counsel in the U.S. Department of Justice. Mr. Sunstein has testified before congressional committees on many subjects, and he has been involved in constitution-making and law reform activities in a number of nations, including Ukraine, Poland, China, South Africa, and Russia. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Mr. Sunstein has been Samuel Rubin Visiting Professor of Law at Columbia, visiting professor of law at Harvard, vice-chair of the ABA Committee on Separation of Powers and Governmental Organizations, chair of the Administrative Law Section of the Association of American Law Schools, a member of the ABA Committee on the future of the FTC, and a member of the President's Advisory Committee on the Public Service Obligations of Digital Television Broadcasters.
He is author of many articles and books, including Democracy and the Problem of Free Speech (1993), Legal Reasoning and Political Conflict (1996), Free Markets and Social Justice (1997), One Case At A Time (1999), Behavioral Law and Economics (editor, 2000), Designing Democracy: What Constitutions Do (2001), Republic.com (2001, 2d ed. 2007), Risk and Reason (2002), The Cost-Benefit State (2002), Punitive Damages: How Juries Decide (2002), Why Societies Need Dissent (2003), The Second Bill of Rights (2004), Laws of Fear: Beyond the Precautionary Principle (2005), Why Societies Need Dissent (2007), Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness (2008) (with Richard Thaler), Simpler: The Future of Government (2014), Wiser: Getting Beyond Groupthink to Make Groups Smarter (2014) (with Reid Hastie), and Why Nudge?: The Politics of Libertarian Paternalism (2015).