Cass Sunstein is the Karl N. Llewellyn Distinguished Service Professor of Jurisprudence in the Law School and Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago. Mr. Sunstein is a former law clerk to Justice Thurgood Marshall. Before joining the faculty of the University of Chicago Law School, he worked as an attorney-advisor in the Office of Legal Counsel at the U.S. Department of Justice. Mr. 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. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Mr. Sunstein has been the Samuel Rubin Visiting Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, a visiting professor of law at Harvard Law School, vice chair of the American Bar Association (ABA) Committee on Separation of Powers and Governmental Organizations, chair of the Administrative Law Section of the Association of American Law Schools, a member of the ABA committee on the future of the Federal Trade Commission, and a member of the President’s Advisory Committee on the Public Service Obligations of Digital Television Broadcasters.

He is the author of many books, including After the Rights Revolution (1990), Free Markets and Social Justice (1997), Laws of Fear: Beyond the Precautionary Principle (2005), Republic.com 2.0 (2007), and Worst-Case Scenarios (2007). His edited books include Administrative Law and Regulatory Policy (1998, with Stephen Breyer, Richard Stewart, and Matthew Spitzer). Mr. Sunstein’s articles have appeared in many scholarly and popular publications, such as the Harvard Law Review, the Journal of Law & Economics, The New Republic, and the Wall Street Journal.