Cass R. Sunstein is an American legal scholar, particularly in the fields of constitutional law, administrative law, environmental law, and law and behavioral economics, who currently is the Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Obama administration. For 27 years, Sunstein taught at the University of Chicago Law School, where he continued to teach as the Harry Kalven Visiting Professor. Sunstein is currently Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where he is on leave while working in the Obama administration.
Books in order of publication:
Feminism and Political Theory – 1990
The Bill of Rights and the Modern State – 1992
After the Rights Revolution: Reconceiving the Regulatory State. Harvard: Harvard University Press. – 1993
The Partial Constitution. Harvard: Harvard University Press. – 1993
Democracy and the problem of free speech. New York: The Free Press. – 1995
Legal Reasoning and Political Conflict. – 1996
Free Markets and Social Justice. Oxford: Oxford University Press. – 1997
Clones and Clones: Facts and Fantasies about Human Cloning. – 1999
One Case at a Time: Judicial Minimalism on the Supreme Court. Harvard: Harvard University Press. – 1999
The Cost of Rights: Why Liberty Depends on Taxes. New York London: W. W. Norton. – 2000
Behavioral Law and Economics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. – 2000
The Vote: Bush, Gore & the Supreme Court. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. – 2001
Designing Democracy: What Constitutions Do. Oxford: Oxford University Press. – 2001
Republic.com. – 2001
Punitive Damages: How Juries Decide. Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press. – 2002
The Cost-Benefit State: The Future of Regulatory Protection. Chicago, Illinois: American Bar Association. – 2002
Risk and reason: Safety, law, and the environment. – Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. – 2002
Why Societies Need Dissent. Harvard: Harvard University Press. – 2003
Animal Rights: Current Debates and New Directions. Oxford New York: Oxford University Press. – 2004
The Laws of Fear: Beyond the Precautionary Principle. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. – 2005
Radicals in Robes: Why Extreme Right-Wing Courts are Wrong for America. New York: Basic Books. – 2005
The Second Bill of Rights: Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Unfinished Revolution and Why We Need It More Than Ever. New York: Basic Books. – 2006
Infotopia: How Many Minds Produce Knowledge. Oxford: Oxford University Press. – 2006
Are Judges Political? An Empirical Investigation of the Federal Judiciary. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press. – 2006
Republic.com 2.0. Princeton: Princeton University Press. – 2007
Worst-Case Scenarios Harvard: Harvard University Press. – 2007
Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press. – 2008
Going to Extremes: How Like Minds Unite and Divide. Oxford: Oxford University Press. – 2009
On Rumors: How Falsehoods Spread, Why We Believe Them, What Can Be Done. Princeton: Princeton University Press. – 2009
Law and Happiness. Chicago, Illinois: The University of Chicago Press. – 2010
Administrative Law and Regulatory Policy: Problems, Text, and Cases (7th ed.). New York: Wolters Kluwer Law & Business. – 2011
Simpler: The Future of Government. New York: Simon & Schuster. – 2013
Constitutional Law (7th ed.). New York: Wolters Kluwer Law & Business. – 2013
Valuing Life: Humanizing the Regulatory State – Chicago, Illinois: The University of Chicago Press. – 2014
Wiser: Getting Beyond Groupthink to Make Groups Smarter. Harvard: Harvard Business Review Press. – 2014
Why Nudge?: The Politics of Libertarian Paternalism (The Storrs Lectures Series). Yale University Press. – 2014
The World According to Star Wars. New York: Dey Street Books. – 2016
The Ethics of Influence: Government in the Age of Behavioral Science. New York: Cambridge University Press. – 2016
Republic : divided democracy in the age of social media. Princeton University Press. – 2017
Human Agency and Behavioral Economics: Nudging Fast and Slow. Palgrave Advances in Behavioral Economics. – 2017
Impeachment: A Citizen’s Guide. Harvard University Press. – 2017
Can It Happen Here?: Authoritarianism in America. Harper Collins – 2018
The Cost-Benefit Revolution. MIT Press. – 2018
On Freedom. Princeton University Press. – 2019
How Change Happens. MIT Press. – 2019
Conformity: The Power of Social Influences. NYU Press. – 2019
Law and Leviathan: Redeeming the Administrative State. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press. – 2020
Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment. William Collins. – 2021
Sludge: What Stops Us from Getting Things Done and What to Do about It. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. – 2021
This Is Not Normal: The Politics of Everyday Expectations. Yale University Press. – 2021
Liars: Falsehoods and Free Speech in an Age of Deception. Oxford University Press. – 2021
Bounded Rationality: Heuristics, Judgment, and Public Policy. MIT Press. – 2022
How to Interpret the Constitution. Princeton University Press. – 2023
Decisions about Decisions: Practical Reason in Ordinary Life. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. – 2023
How to Become Famous: Lost Einsteins, Forgotten Superstars, and How the Beatles Came to Be. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Business Review Press. – 2024
Look Again: The Power of Noticing What Was Always There. Atria/One Signal. – 2024
Campus Free Speech: A Pocket Guide. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. – 2024
Climate Justice: What Rich Nations Owe the World–And the Future. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. – 2024
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