Cass R. Sunstein
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| Organization: | Harvard Law School |
| Education: | •Harvard University •Harvard Law School |
Cass R. Sunstein is an American legal scholar and professor. As of May 2024, he was the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard Law School. He is also the founder and director of the Program on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy at Harvard Law School. Sunstein served as the administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs under former President Barack Obama (D) from 2009 to 2012. According to his faculty profile page on the Harvard website, Sunstein's areas of interest include administrative law, constitutional law, environmental law and policy, employment law, labor law, and behavioral law and economics.[1]
Career
Below is a summary of Sunstein's education and career:[1]
Academic degrees:
- A.B. (1975), Harvard University
- J.D. (1978), Harvard Law School
Professional positions and honors:
- Law clerk, Benjamin Kaplan, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 1978-1979
- Law clerk, Thurgood Marshall, Supreme Court of the United States, 1979-1980
- Attorney-advisor, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Legal Counsel, 1980-1981
- Faculty, University of Chicago Law School, 1981-2008[2]
- Faculty, Harvard Law School, 2008-2013 - Present[3]
- Administrator, White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, 2009-2012
- Professor, Harvard University, 2013 - Present
Academic scholarship
The following table contains a selection of works by professor Sunstein about the administrative state and related issues. Any links in the table below feature Ballotpedia summaries of that scholarly work.
| Works related to the administrative state | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Title | Source | ||
| "On Liberalism" | SSRN (2024) | ||
| "Two Justifications for the Major Questions Doctrine" | Florida Law Review (2024) | ||
| "Why I Am a Liberal" | The New York Times (2023) | ||
| "Efficiency vs. Welfare in Benefit-Cost Analysis: The Case of Government Funding" | SSRN (2023) | ||
| "Does Evidence Matter? Originalism and the Separation of Powers" | SSRN (2023) | ||
| "It All Started With Benzene" | SSRN (2023) | ||
| "The Invention of Colorblindness" | SSRN (2023) | ||
| "Artificial Intelligence and the First Amendment" | SSRN (2023) | ||
| "The Rule of Law" | SSRN (2023) | ||
| "Big decisions: 'Opting,' psychological richness, and public policy" | The Journal of Political Philosophy (2023) | ||
| "The Problem of Extravagant Inferences" | Harvard Public Law School Working Paper (2023) | ||
| "Discerning blue from purple: How prevalence affects what is perceived as normal" | Evolution and Human Behavior (2023) | ||
| "Inequality and the Value of a Statistical Life" | SSRN (2023) | ||
| "Eight Misconceptions About Nudges" | Harvard Public Law School Working Paper (2023) | ||
| "Conspiracy Theory: On Certain Misconceptions About the Uses of Behavioral Science in Government" | Harvard Public Law School Working Paper (2023) | ||
| "'This'" | Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy (2023) | ||
| "Behavioral Science in the Administrative State" | Administrative Law Review (2023) | ||
| "Experiments of Living Constitutionalism" | Havard Journal of Law & Public Policy (2023) | ||
| "The Rule of Law vs. ’Party Nature’: Presidential Elections, the U.S. Constitution, the Electoral Count Act of 1887, the Horror of January 6, and the Electoral Count Reform Act of 2022" | Boston University Law Review (2023) | ||
| "Is Living Constitutionalism Dead? The Enigma of Bolling v. Sharpe" | Harvard Law Working Paper (2022) | ||
| "A Framework for Regulating Falsehoods" | Social Media, Freedom of Speech, and the Future of our Democracy (2022) | ||
| "Dobbs and the Travails of Due Process Traditionalism" | Harvard Law Working Paper (2022) | ||
| "Who Should Regulate?" | New York Law Review (2022) | ||
| "The War on Bureaucratic Sludge" | Saturday Evening Post (2022) | ||
| University of Pennsylvania Law Review (2022) | |||
| "Zombie Chevron: A Celebration" | Ohio State Law Journal (2021) | ||
| "Is Chevron Inconsistent with the APA?" | Harvard Public Law Working Paper (2021) | ||
| "Presidential Review: The President’s Statutory Authority Over Independent Agencies" | Georgetown Law Review (2021) | ||
| "Can the Government Regulate Deepfakes?" | Wall Street Journal (2021) | ||
| "On Overruling Chevron" | Harvard Law Working (2020) | ||
| "Textualism and the Duck-Rabbit Illusion" | Harvard Public Law Working Paper (2020) | ||
| "Chevron as Construction" | Cornell Law Review (2020) | ||
| "A Note on Human Welfare and the Administrative State" | Daedalus (2020) | ||
| "Chevron as Law" | Georgetown Law Review (2019) | ||
| "A Quiet Revolution Has Given the U.S. Smarter Regulations" | Wall Street Journal (2018) | ||
| "The Unbearable Rightness of Auer" | University of Chicago Law Review (2017) | ||
| "The Ethics of Influence: Government in the Age of Behavioral Science" | Cambridge University Press (2016) | ||
| "The New Coke: On the Plural Aims of Administrative Law" | Supreme Court Review (2016) | ||
| "Constitutional Personae: Heroes, Soldiers, Minimalists, and Mutes (Inalienable Rights)" | Oxford University Press (2015) | ||
| "Libertarian Administrative Law" | The University of Chicago Law Review (2015) | ||
| "The Law of “Not Now”: When Agencies Defer Decisions" | Georgetown Law Journal (2014) | ||
| "Valuing Life: Humanizing the Regulatory State" | University of Chicago Press (2014) | ||
| "Why Nudge?: The Politics of Libertarian Paternalism" | Yale University Press (2014) | ||
| "Simpler: The Future of Government " | Simon and Schuster (2013) | ||
| "Law and Happiness" | University of Chicago Press (2010) | ||
| "A Constitution of Many Minds" | Princeton University Press (2009) | ||
| "Nudge" | Yale University Press (2008) | ||
| "Republic.com 2.0" | Princeton University Press (2007) | ||
| "Are Judges Political? An Empirical Investigation of the Federal Judiciary" | Brookings Institution
Press (2006) | ||
| "The Second Bill of Rights: Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Unfinished Revolution and Why We Need It More Than Ever" | Basic Books (2006) | ||
| "Radicals in Robes: Why Extreme Right-Wing Courts Are Wrong for America" | Basic Books (2005) | ||
| "The Laws of Fear: Beyond the Precautionary Principle" | Cambridge University Press (2005) | ||
| "Risk and Reason" | Cambridge University Press (2002) | ||
| "The Cost-Benefit State" | American Bar Association (2002) | ||
| "Punitive Damages: How Juries Decide " | University of Chicago Press (2002) | ||
| "Republic.com" | Princeton University Press (2001) | ||
| "Designing Democracy: What Constitutions Do" | Oxford University Press (2001) | ||
| "Behavioral Law and Economics" | Cambridge University Press (2000) | ||
| "One Case At A Time: Judicial Minimalism on the Supreme Court" | Harvard University Press (1999) | ||
| "Administrative Law and Regulatory Policy" | Aspen Publishers (1999) | ||
| "The Cost of Rights: Why Liberty Depends on Taxes" | W. W. Norton & Company (1999) | ||
| "Legal Reasoning and Political Conflict" | Oxford University Press (1996) | ||
| "The President and the Administration" | Columbia Law Review (1994) | ||
| "The Partial Constitution" | Harvard University Press (1993) | ||
| "The Bill of Rights and the Modern State" | University of Chicago Press (1992) | ||
| "Law and Administration after Chevron" | Columbia Law Review (1990) | ||
| "After the Rights Revolution: Reconceiving the Regulatory State" | Harvard University Press (1990) | ||
| "Constitutionalism after the New Deal" | Harvard Law Review (1987) | ||
| "Deregulation and the Hard-Look Doctrine" | Supreme Court Review (1983) | ||
| "Is Cost-Benefit Analysis a Panacea for Administrative Law?" | University of Chicago Law School Record (1983) | ||
| "Politics and Adjudication" | Ethics (1983) | ||
| "Public Employees, Executive Discretion, and the Air Traffic Controllers" | University of Chicago Law Review (1982) | ||
| "Participation, Public Law, and Venue Reform" | University of Chicago Law Review (1982) | ||
| "Public Programs and Private Rights" | Harvard Law Review (1982) | ||
| "Section 1983 and the Private Enforcement of Federal Law" | University of Chicago Law Review (1982) | ||
| "Cost-Benefit Analysis and the Separation of Powers" | Arizona Law Review (1981) | ||
See also
- Ballotpedia's administrative state coverage
- Administrative State Bibliography
- Scholarly work related to the administrative state
External links
Footnotes
