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	University of Chicago Law School > Cass Sunstein
		Cass R. Sunstein graduated in 1975 from Harvard College and in 1978 from Harvard Law School magna cum laude.
		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.
		Sunstein is a member of the Department of Political Science as well as the Law School.
	www.law.uchicago.edu /faculty/sunstein (182 words)

	Cass Sunstein - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sunstein is a proponent of judicial minimalism, arguing that judges should focus primarily on deciding the case at hand, and avoid making sweeping changes to the law or decisions that have broad-reaching effects.
		Sunstein is a contributing editor to The New Republic and is a frequent witness before congressional commitees; he played an active role in opposing the effort to impeach President Bill Clinton in 1998.
		In recent years, Sunstein has taken spots guest blogging on the Volokh Conspiracy and the weblogs of fellow law professors Lawrence Lessig (Stanford) and Jack Balkin (Yale).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cass_Sunstein (468 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Democracy and the Problem of Free Speech, by Cass R. Sunstein (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Troy, Daniel E. Cass Sunsteinof the University of Chicago Law School, described by the New York Times as "the most coveted young academic in the country," shares the widely held view that our media have become increasingly irrelevant and obnoxious, and are a disservice to American democracy.
		...Sunstein justifies these intrusive regulations on the grounds that the state, which enforces the laws of theft and trespass, is the source of all property rights-the "New Dealers' central insight," as he puts it...
		...CASS SUNSTEIN of the University of Chicago Law School, described by the New York Times as "the most coveted young academic in the country," shares the widely held view that our media have become increasingly irrelevant and obnoxious, and are a disservice to American democracy...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V97I1P65-1.htm (1408 words)

	…My heart’s in Accra » Cass Sunstein’s “Infotopia”
		Sunstein is deeply suspicious of the optimistic claims made for deliberation, and cites a wealth of studies that demonstrate that deliberation, in many cases, leads to bad decisions and the reinforcement of extreme views.
		Sunstein makes a great deal of this finding in the book, though the paper he and colleagues authored suggests that the constraints of the experiment need to be considered very carefully.
		Sunstein and his co-authors argue that the geographic - and hence ideological - filtering they use in the experiment is a very realistic one in modern-day America, where individuals are increasingly choosing to live in communities where their neighbors share their ideologies.
	www.ethanzuckerman.com /blog/2006/11/30/cass-sunsteins-infotopia (3529 words)

	Cultural Cognition: The Secret Ambition of Cass Sunstein
		Sunsteinâs account reflects what I -- along with Paul Slovic, Don Braman, and John Gastil, in a forthcoming review to be published in the Harvard Law Review -- call the âirrational weigher modelâ of risk perception.
		Sunstein, for example, synthesizes a vast social psychology and behavioral economics literature dealing which the distorting influence of dynamics such as the âavailability heuristic,â âprobability neglect,â âgroup polarization,â and the like.
		Sunstein's book is genuinely outstanding and a must read for anyone who is interested in the vital issue of risk regulation.
	research.yale.edu /culturalcognition/blog/2005/09/secret-ambition-of-cass-sunstein.html (967 words)

	Engle, Volume IX, Issue 2, Richmond Journal of Law and Technology
		Since Sunstein does not appear to question the ability of a program to represent deductive reasoning, it seems his claim that it is impossible, at present, for a program to represent the law is ill-considered.
		Sunstein would have done better to argue that computation of law is impossible because building and training a neural network to operate as a general system is too complex.
		Rather Sunstein supports this point, which is for the two aforementioned reasons tenable, with a third point, which is not; Sunstein relies on a dichotomy of deductive reasoning and analogical reasoning to explain the limitations of AI at present.
	law.richmond.edu /jolt/v9i2/article6.html (3323 words)

	Liberty Corner
		Cass Sunstein's recent blatherings about FDR's "Second Bill of Rights" at The Volokh Conspiracy made me want to find out more about his understanding of the proper role of government in our society.
		In an earlier post I said that Cass Sunstein is to the integrity of constitutional law as Pete Rose is to the integrity of baseball.
		It's worse than that: Sunstein's willingness to abuse constitutional law in the advancement of a statist agenda reminds me of Hitler's abuse of German law to advance his repugnant agenda.
	libertycorner.blogspot.com /2004/06/cass-sunsteins-truly-dangerous-mind.html (2130 words)

	Democracy and the Problem of Free Speech by Cass Sunstein - A Book Review by Scott London
		According to Sunstein, the First Amendment protects many forms of speech that should not be protected -- commercial speech, libelous speech, speech that invades privacy, and certain forms of pornography and hate speech -- while it ignores genuine victims of defamation and in some cases gives the government too much power over speech.
		Sunstein maintains that modern economic and technological changes, together with shifting popular attitudes about various forms of speech, such as campaign finance, hate speech, and government art funding, call for a "large-scale reassessment of the appropriate role of the First Amendment in the democratic process."
		Sunstein proposes what he calls a "New Deal" for speech, a reformulation which abandons the prevailing "marketplace of ideas" model of free expression, in favor of a Madisonian conception based on deliberative democracy.
	www.scottlondon.com /reviews/sunstein.html (406 words)

	Nudge - Cass Sunstein biography
		Cass R. Sunstein is the most-cited law professor on any faculty in the United States (and probably the world).
		As an author or co-author of more than 15 books and hundreds of academic articles, Sunstein has crossed academic borders throughout his career to offer unique insights on law, public policy, economics, and psychology.
		Sunstein has also written regularly for leading newspapers and magazines, and been interviewed on all the major television networks.
	www.nudges.org /Sunstein.cfm (202 words)

	Books - Radicals in Robes - Why Extreme Right-Wing Courts Are Wrong for America
		According to legal scholar Cass Sunstein, it is not enough to label judges as "liberal" or "conservative" or any other ideological stripe; one must also take into account their approach to constitutional interpretation.
		Cass Sunstein embeds his argument within a more general theory of judicial 'minimalism' that would limit the further politicization of judicial appointments.
		Cass R. Sunstein is Karl N. Llewellyn Distinguished Service Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Chicago Law School, a contributing editor at the New Republic and the American Prospect, and a contributor as well to such publications as the New York Times and the Washington Post.
	liberty.hypermart.net /cgi-bin/blogs/books.php/2005/10/18/p3392 (1330 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Risk and Reason by Cass R. Sunstein (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The modern environmental movement, which came of age in the 1960's, has been dominated by activists and alarmists, and their basic method has never changed: overstate threats and downplay the costs and difficulties of dealing with them.
		...Sunstein is almost certainly correct in arguing that cost-benefit thinking would eliminate some of the follies of the environmentalism of the 1970's...
		...Cass R. Sunstein is at once sympathetic to these activists and critical of their naivet...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V115I2P73-1.htm (1709 words)

	Outside the Whale: Cass Sunstein - Moderate or Radical? (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Sunstein is a big liberal (which is his right), an anyone-but-Bush partisan Democrat, and, in Tom Palmer's words, "about as radical an advocate of unlimited government as you could find in America." I wonder if the NYT will expand this practice: "George W. Bush, who describes himself as a fiscal conservative.
		Sunstein's politics may very well be liberal, but his constitutional politics are far from your typical leftist with a socialist slant.
		Sunstein is no conservative of the originalist variety, but he certainly no raging liberal either.
	outsidethewhale.blogspot.com /2005/04/cass-sunstein-moderate-or-radical.html (651 words)

	Washington Monthly: And welfare for all? Cass Sunstein's case for inalienable economic rights (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Like the vast majority of Americans, Sunstein takes it for granted that it would be good for every American to have the opportunity to obtain health care, an education, a job, and other basics of life.
		Sunstein devotes most of his efforts to rebutting the common arguments in favor of that conventional wisdom.
		Thus, as Sunstein puts it, one can easily imagine an alternative universe in which the Warren court trends were continued, by new justices appointed by President Hubert Humphrey.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1316/is_9_36/ai_n6332297 (1297 words)

	The Partial Constitution:0674654781:Sunstein, Cass R.:eCampus.com
		This was not always the case, as Sunstein demonstrates; nor was it the intention of the country's founders.
		In light of this analysis, Sunstein proposes solutions to some of the most hotly disputed issues of our time, including affirmative action, sex discrimination, pornography, "hate speech", and government funding of religious schools and the arts.
		Sunstein connects these and other debates to the Constitution's historic commitment to public deliberation among political equals - and in doing so, he reconceives many of our most basic constitutional rights, such as free speech and equality under law.
	www.ecampus.com /bk_detail.asp?isbn=0674654781 (327 words)

	Republic.com: Can Filtering Harm Democracy? A Critique of Cass Sunstein's book (Mark Welch's Perspective, January 15, ...
		Building to this, Sunstein’s first thesis in “Republic.com” is that technology is creating more and more opportunities for consumers to select their own media diets, instead of relying on “general interest intermediaries” (TV networks, TV stations, newspapers, and magazines) to provide a broad mix of content.
		Sunstein also cites the “range of chance encounters” (page 11) that arise from “general interest intermediaries” (such as newspapers, magazines, and radio and TV stations) which deliver a wide variety of news and entertainment content.
		Sunstein goes on to imply that only web sites with certain viewpoints be subjected to disclosure requirements: “The idea would be to ensure that anyone who is engaging in a practice that might produce harm, or do less good than might be done, should be required to disclose that fact to the public,” (page 174).
	www.markwelch.com /perspective/sunstein.htm (4618 words)

	AEI - Events
		Two of the leading experts on the topic, Cass R. Sunstein and W. Kip Viscusi, reviewed recent data concerning what people are willing to pay to reduce different kinds of risks and examined how this information should be used in public policy decisions.
		Sunstein argued that the value of a statistical life differs across groups of people.
		Sunstein said the very theory that underlies current practice calls for far more individuation of the relevant values.
	www.aei.org /events/filter.all,eventID.865/summary.asp (424 words)

	The Yale Law Journal - A Debate Between Peter Strauss and Cass Sunstein
		One can accept the bulk of Professor Sunstein’s analysis and nonetheless maintain that it is “emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is,”; by framing the executive’s power to pinpoint the law within the bounds framed by judicial exercise of that duty, not outside of it.
		Sunstein relies on cases like Hearst and Chevron—cases in which agencies followed formal, public procedures in carrying out delegated authority—for the much broader claim that courts must also defer to less formal executive behavior—to choices made away from public scrutiny and without full administrative oversight.
		Sunstein’s view encourages the President’s attorney to argue for Chevron deference to his interpretation—as in the Gonzales v.
	www.thepocketpart.org /2006/09/27/strauss.html (7124 words)

	Encyclopedia: Cass Sunstein
		George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the 43rd and current President of the United States and a former Governor of the State of Texas.
		The Second Bill of Rights was a proposal made by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt during his State of the Union Address on January 11, 1944 to add a second bill of rights to the United States Constitution.
		Martha Nussbaum Martha Nussbaum (born Martha Craven on May 6, 1947) is an American philosopher, with a particular interest in ancient philosophy, law and ethics.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Cass-Sunstein (1039 words)

	02138 § Martha Nussbaum & Cass Sunstein
		Sunstein will call Nussbaum and disguise his voice pretending to be a journalist who wants very much to hear her views on some pressing issue.
		Sunstein widens the definition to include people—Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher, cellist Yo-Yo Ma, and ballerina Suzanne Farrell, for example—whose capacities may be justice neutral.
		Cass wants to be liked for what he says when he goes to Washington to talk to the Republicans.
	www.02138mag.com /lists/PC/1111.html (1359 words)

	Cass Sunstein to Leave U. of Chicago for Harvard - Chronicle.com
		“Cass Sunstein is the pre-eminent legal scholar of our time — the most wide-ranging, the most prolific, the most cited, and the most influential,” Ms.
		Sunstein is also a regular contributor to The Chronicle Review, writing in recent years about the polarization of extremes fostered by the Internet; F.D.R.’s 1944 State of the Union address, which Mr.
		Sunstein called the greatest speech of the 20th century; and the importance to democracy of being exposed to multiple viewpoints.
	chronicle.com /news/article/3987/cass-sunstein-to-leave-u-of-chicago-for-harvard (592 words)

	Judges and Politics
		Sunstein argues that judges' ideology (for which party identification serves as a crude but realistic proxy) matters--a lot.
		But Sunstein's argument is particularly suited to the current wars over judicial nominations because of a clever wrinkle in the way his data portray the relation between judging and ideology.
		According to Sunstein, judges are divided by party--but they are unified in their conformity.
	www.weeklystandard.com /Content/Public/Articles/000/000/003/173wfhlw.asp (482 words)

	Powell's Books - Why Societies Need Dissent by Cass R. Sunstein
		Sunstein's important new study is filled with empirical evidence of the significance of opposition, found in his compelling explanations of the need for, and benefits of, disagreement.
		Sunstein reveals that, in fact, the influence of dissenters is for the better, be it with courts, juries, corporate boardrooms, churches, sports teams, student organizations or faculties, not to mention 'the White House, Congress and the Supreme Court...during times of both war and peace.'
		Cass Sunstein discusses the genius of the Constitution and the indispensable role of free speech, dissent, and tolerance for new ideas in maintaining and strengthening modern society.
	www.powells.com /partner/24626/biblio/9780674017689 (912 words)

	Law Blog - WSJ.com : A Law Blog Q&A With Harvard's Latest Catch: Cass Sunstein
		Cass Sunstein, a 27-year veteran of University of Chicago Law School, is heading to Harvard in the fall.
		Cass is a really great guy — compared with pretty much everyone else in the circles in which he travels, he is not a snob at all.
		Sunstein has a little trouble with it but can’t quite bring himself to say that maybe these people were wrong in the past.
	blogs.wsj.com /law/2008/02/21/a-law-blog-qa-with-harvards-latest-catch-cass-sunstein/?mod=googlenews_wsj (3949 words)

	Tom G. Palmer on Cass Sunstein’s The Second Bill of Rights on National Review Online
		Mild-mannered University of Chicago law professor Cass Sunstein has been advancing the radical notion that all rights — including rights usually held to be "against" the state, such as the right to freedom of speech and the right not to be arbitrarily imprisoned or tortured — are grants from the state.
		The problem here is that Sunstein's economic theory of value is stuck in the period of the classical economists, who tried to attribute all value to one necessary factor of production; for them, that was labor.
		Sunstein merely substitutes what he has decided is the one necessary factor: the state.
	www.nationalreview.com /books/palmer200503011045.asp (1093 words)

	Sunstein, C.R.: Republic.com 2.0.
		Cass Sunstein first asked these questions before 9/11, in Republic.com, and they have become even more urgent in the years since.
		Sunstein also proposes new remedies and reforms--focusing far less on what government should do, and much more on what consumers and producers should do--to help democracy avoid the perils, and realize the promise, of the Internet.
		Cass R. Sunstein teaches law and politics at the University of Chicago, and is the author of many books, including Democracy and the Problem of Free Speech; The Partial Constitution; After the Rights Revolution; Free Markets and Social Justice; One Case at a Time; and, with Stephen Holmes, The Cost of Rights.
	press.princeton.edu /titles/8468.html (528 words)

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