Sunstein
Cass R. Sunstein
Legal scholar of behavioral regulation, administrative law, and constitutional theory
Official Source Note
Harvard Law School identifies Sunstein as Robert Walmsley University Professor and describes him as founder and director of the Program on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy at Harvard Law School.
Sunstein is included because his work with Jolls and Thaler helped establish behavioral law and economics, while his later work on choice architecture and nudges made behavioral insights central to regulatory design.
Source: Harvard Law School
Relevance to the Archive
Sunstein is central for studying how legal institutions can structure decisions through defaults, disclosure, simplification, warnings, and regulatory design without relying only on command-and-control mandates.
Representative Contributions
- A Behavioral Approach to Law and Economics (with Christine Jolls and Richard Thaler, 1998)
- Risk and Reason: Safety, Law, and the Environment (2002)
- Nudge (with Richard Thaler, 2008)
Works Included Here
1998
Advanced
A Behavioral Approach to Law and Economics
Christine Jolls, Cass R. Sunstein, and Richard H. Thaler
Stanford Law Review