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United States Cass Sunstein is a renowned legal scholar recognized for his significant contributions to U.S. constitutional law, administrative law, environmental law, and behavioral economics, positioning him as a leading authority for brands seeking expertise in regulatory frameworks and consumer behavior.
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Cass Robert Sunstein was born on September 21, 1954, in Waban, Massachusetts. After graduating from Middlesex School in 1972, he earned a Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, from Harvard University in 1975, where he was also a member of the varsity squash team and an editor for the Harvard Lampoon. He continued his education at Harvard Law School, graduating in 1978 with a Juris Doctor, magna cum laude, while serving as an executive editor of the Harvard Civil Rights–Civil Liberties Law Review and being part of the winning team in the Ames Moot Court Competition.
Sunstein began his legal career as a law clerk for Justice Benjamin Kaplan of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court from 1978 to 1979, and then for Justice Thurgood Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1979 to 1980. Following his clerkships, he spent a year as an attorney-advisor in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel. In 1981, he joined the University of Chicago Law School as an assistant professor, also holding an assistant professorship in the Department of Political Science by 1983. He became a full professor of both political science and law in 1985 and was named the Karl N. Llewellyn Professor of Jurisprudence in 1988, a title changed to Karl N. Llewellyn Distinguished Service Professor in 1993 in recognition of his significant contributions.
His diverse academic and professional career includes teaching constitutional law, administrative law, and environmental law. In 2008, he joined Harvard Law School, where he established and directs the Program on Risk Regulation. Notably, from 2009 to 2012, Sunstein served as the Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Obama administration. He is a prolific author, with best-selling works such as “The World According to Star Wars” (2016) and “Nudge” (2008), co-authored with Richard Thaler.
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