Cass Sunstein is the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard and was the Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs from 2009 to 2012. His new book, Simpler: The Future of Government, was published in April. (May 2013)
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An Original Thinker of Our Time
May 23, 2013
Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman
by Jeremy Adelman
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In Harm’s Way
May 9, 2013
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‘It’s For Your Own Good!’
April 25, 2013
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It’s For Your Own Good!
March 7, 2013
Against Autonomy: Justifying Coercive Paternalism
by Sarah Conly
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The Election—I
November 8, 2012
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The Enlarged Republic—Then and Now
March 26, 2009
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The ‘Daily Me’
April 25, 2002
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How Independent is the Court?
October 22, 1992
Grand Inquests: The Historic Impeachments of Justice Samuel Chase and President Andrew Johnson
by William H. Rehnquist
The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring About Social Change? by Gerald N. Rosenberg
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The Hidden Stakes of the Election
October 9, 2012
Many of the biggest battles of the day—over health care reform, financial reform, environmental protection, workplace safety, civil rights—will ultimately be settled in court by lower-court judges in rulings that will get little public attention. The Supreme Court has upheld the Affordable Care Act, but some of the rules that are necessary to implement it may turn out to be vulnerable. Unlike presidents, judges often stay in their jobs for decades, and any president is in a position to shift the judiciary in major ways. Of course it is true that the 2012 presidential election will help to establish the meaning of the Constitution. Perhaps equally important, it will help to establish the fate of numerous rules designed to protect public safety, health, and the environment.