books by Cass R. Sunstein

books by Cass R. Sunstein

books:

Cass R. Sunstein

Constitutional Law 2007 (Case Supplement)
Geoffrey R. Stone, Louis M. Seidman, ...

Aspen Publishers, 2007

Republic.com 2.0
Cass R. Sunstein

Princeton University Press, 2007

What happens to democracy and free speech if people use the Internet to create echo chambers--to listen and speak only to the like-minded? What is the democratic benefit of the Internet's unlimited choices if citizens narrowly limit the information they receive, creating ever-smaller niches and fragmenting the shared public conversation on which ...

Are Judges Political?: An Empirical Analysis of the Federal Judiciary

Cass R. Sunstein, David Schkade, ...

Brookings Institution Press, 2006

More Insight into Behavior on the U.S. Courts of Appeals
This is the second of two current book-length examinations of judicial behavior on the United States Courts of Appeals. The other book is "Judging on a Collegial Court" by Hettinger et al., also reviewed on Amazon. The Courts of Appeals, or middle level of the federal ...

Worst-Case Scenarios

Cass R. Sunstein

Harvard University Press, 2007

Superb discussion of cost benefit analysis applied to extreme situations
Cass Sunstein has written a superb analysis of how cost benefit analysis can usefully be applied to extreme situations - worst case scenarios. He takes up two - mostly climate change, but then compares it to counterterrorism. My comments below focus on the ...

Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness

Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein

Yale University Press, 2008

Designing Choice Architecture
This book provides insights to those who need to move people to make good decisions and if they cannot, then the default would do them the least harm. Many of the examples that they have provided are not new, e.g. Singapore has adopted the opt-out model for organ ...

Infotopia: How Many Minds Produce Knowledge

Cass R. Sunstein

Oxford University Press, USA, 2006

I added it to my syllabus immediately
I originally bought this book as a birthday present for my brother, a philosopher, and then immediately stole it from him. (I gave it back after I bought my own copy.) The book paints a frightening picture of how group processes can lead us very, very astray. In many ...

Animal Rights: Current Debates and New Directions

Oxford University Press, USA, 2005

The New Standard
Nussbaum and Sunstein have put together something very special. This book mixes the standard animal rights fare of Singer, Wise, and Francione with exciting new contributions by thinkers like Catharine MacKinnon, Richard Posner, as well as Sunstein and Nussbaum ...

Risk and Reason: Safety, Law, and the Environment

Cass R. Sunstein

Cambridge University Press, 2004

Huge Helping of Reason, Needs Salt
The bottom line on this book is clear: our governance of risk to the public tends to be managed by political gut reaction rather than informed investigation; there is no clear doctrine for studying and articulating risk (for example, distinguishing between high risks ...

Constitutional Law (Casebook) (Casebook)

Geoffrey R. Stone, Louis M. Seidman, ...

Aspen Publishers, Inc., 2005

Reasonable - Good Historical Materials
I've had cause to study this book a little for a course in Constitutional Problems at the University of Western Australia. Inevitably - while my requirements cannot be as detailed or exhaustive as that of my American friends, I found it a useful guide to the major ...

The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of America

Georgetown University Press, 2003

When in the course of human events...
Every home in the United States should have a copy of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States. Contrary to what is often thought, given the giant reputation and high esteem of these documents, the texts are in fact quite short - the ...

The Partial Constitution

Cass R. Sunstein

Harvard University Press, 1993

A powerful contribution do constitucional doctrine
When I was in my first years teaching constitutional law and writing a book on church and state in Portugal this book was perhaps the most important I read. The insights of Cass Sunstein helped to build a more persuasive case for religions freedom and equality in ...

One Case at a Time: Judicial Minimalism on the Supreme Court

Cass R. Sunstein

Harvard University Press, 2001

Succinct analysis of how the Supreme Court decides cases
This is an essential text for anyone interested in legal reasoning and legal process. I would go so far as to say it will be on the same bookshelf as Oliver Wendall Holmes and other great jurisprudential commentators. It should also be required reading for every law ...

Free Markets and Social Justice

Cass R. Sunstein

Oxford University Press, USA, 1999

Balanced analysis of markets
The author provides a balance between recognizing the value that is embodied in free markets and realizing that they are not an end in themselves. Rather, the author writes that markets are best evaluated on the basis not of some imagined inherent worth, but on the ...

After the Rights Revolution: Reconceiving the Regulatory State
Cass R. Sunstein

Harvard University Press, 2005

In the twentieth century, American society has experienced a "rights revolution": a commitment by the national government to promote a healthful environment, safe products, freedom from discrimination, and other rights unknown to the founding generation. This development has profoundly affected constitutional democracy by skewing the original ...

Administrative Law and Regulatory Policy: Problems, Text, and Cases

Richard B. Stewart, Cass R. Sunstein, ...

Aspen Publishers, Inc., 2006

A "best sellers" of administrative law
This is a complete and remarkable book about administrative law, in which the study of administrative procedure is preponderant, especially from the perspective of the cases.