Cass R. Sunstein is currently the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard. He is the founder and director of the Program on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy at Harvard Law School. In 2018, he received the Holberg Prize from the government of Norway, sometimes described as the equivalent of the Nobel Prize for law and the humanities. From 2009 to 2012, he was Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, and after that, he served on the President's Review Board on Intelligence and Communications Technologies and on the Pentagon's Defense Innovation Board. Mr. Sunstein has testified before congressional committees on many subjects, and he has advised officials at the United Nations, the European Commission, the World Bank, and many nations on issues of law and public policy. He serves as an adviser to the Behavioural Insights Team in the United Kingdom.
Mr. Sunstein is author of hundreds of articles and dozens of books, including Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness (with Richard H. Thaler, 2008), Simpler: The Future of Government (2013), The Ethics of Influence (2015), #Republic (2017), Impeachment: A Citizen's Guide (2017), The Cost-Benefit Revolution (2018), On Freedom (2019), Conformity (2019), How Change Happens (2019), and Too Much Information (2020). He is now working on a variety of projects involving the regulatory state, "sludge" (defined to include paperwork and similar burdens), fake news, and freedom of speech.
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Fireside Chat: “Why Separate Powers?” A Conceptual Introduction
2024 National Student Symposium
Harvard Law School1585 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02138
Regulation or “Don’t Let a Good Crisis Go to Waste”
COVID-19 & the Law Conference
Webinar & Live StreamAnnual Convention Luncheon: Are Originalists Really "Radicals in Robes"?
2005 National Lawyers Convention
The Mayflower Hotel1127 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20036
Showcase Panel III: Judicial Decisionmaking: Judicial Enforcement of the Boundaries of Government Power
2001 National Lawyers Convention
The Mayflower Hotel1127 Connecticut Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20036
Panel II: Constitutionalism and Originalism [Archive Collection]
1995 National Student Symposium
Northwestern University School of Law375 E Chicago Ave
Chicago, IL 60611
Fireside Chat: “Why Separate Powers?” A Conceptual Introduction
2024 National Student Symposium
Professor Cass Sunstein and Judge Raymond Kethledge will open the symposium with a fireside chat...
Panel II: Constitutionalism and Originalism [Archive Collection]
1995 National Student Symposium
On April 7-9, 1995, the Federalist Society held its fourteenth annual National Student Symposium at...
Panel II: Constitutionalism and Originalism [Archive Collection]
1995 National Student Symposium
On April 7-9, 1995, the Federalist Society held its fourteenth annual National Student Symposium at...
Regulation or “Don’t Let a Good Crisis Go to Waste”
COVID-19 & the Law Conference
The fifth panel of the Federalist Society's COVID-19 & the Law Conference discussed "Regulation or...
Regulation or “Don’t Let a Good Crisis Go to Waste”
COVID-19 & the Law Conference
The fifth panel of the Federalist Society's COVID-19 & the Law Conference discussed "Regulation or...