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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Law in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Law in United States Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Law in United States Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Law and Political Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2018 - Holberg Prize, Government of Norway for having "reshaped our understanding of the relationship between the modern regulatory state and constitutional law."
  • 2017 - Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy
  • 1992 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Cass R. Sunstein is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research spans several interdisciplinary fields including economics, behavioral science, political science, and legal studies. The scientist's work frequently addresses topics such as decision-making and behavioral economics, legal and constitutional studies, behavioral health and interventions, law and judicial systems, economic and environmental valuation, ethics and social impacts of AI, and environmental education and sustainability.

The scientist's recent papers include:

  • Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response (2020, Nature Human Behaviour)
  • How people decide what they want to know (2020, Nature Human Behaviour)
  • Ten considerations for effectively managing the COVID-19 transition (2020, Nature Human Behaviour)
  • How behavioural sciences can promote truth, autonomy and democratic discourse online (2020, Nature Human Behaviour)
  • Mitigating climate change via food consumption and food waste: A systematic map of behavioral interventions (2020, Journal of Cleaner Production)

Frequent co-authors of Cass R. Sunstein include:

  • Lucia A. Reisch
  • Micha Kaiser
  • Adrian Vermeule
  • Oren Bar-Gill
  • Michele J. Gelfand

Sunstein has published extensively in a variety of venues. The most frequent publication venues are:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Behavioural Public Policy
  • Nature Human Behaviour
  • Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis
  • American Journal of Law and Equality

Several books have been published by Sunstein under different publishers. Major publishers include The MIT Press, Harvard University Press, New York University Press eBooks, Princeton University Press, and Cambridge University Press.

Books published with The MIT Press include:

  • Sludge (2021)
  • Too Much Information (2020)
  • Bounded Rationality (2022)
  • Climate Justice (2025)
  • On Liberalism (2025)

Books published with Harvard University Press include:

  • Law and Leviathan (2020)
  • Campus Free Speech (2024)

Books published with New York University Press eBooks include:

  • Conformity (2020)
  • Averting Catastrophe (2021)

Books published with Princeton University Press include:

  • How to Interpret the Constitution (2023)

Books published with Cambridge University Press include:

  • Behavioral Science and Public Policy (2020)
  • Decisions about Decisions (2023)

Sunstein's awards include the Holberg Prize from the Government of Norway in 2018, with a citation noting the reshaping of understanding between modern regulatory state and constitutional law. They were elected Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy in 2017 and became a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992.

Best Publications

  • Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness

    Richard H. Thaler;Cass R. Sunstein

  • Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response.

    Jay J. Van Bavel;Katherine Baicker;Paulo S. Boggio;Valerio Capraro

  • A Behavioral Approach to Law and Economics

    Christine Jolls;Cass R. Sunstein;Richard H. Thaler

  • The science of fake news

    David M. J. Lazer;Matthew A. Baum;Yochai Benkler;Adam J. Berinsky

  • Republic.com 2.0

    Cass R. Sunstein

  • The Law of Group Polarization

    Cass Robert Sunstein

  • Libertarian Paternalism Is Not an Oxymoron

    Cass R. Sunstein;Richard H. Thaler

  • Social Norms and Social Roles

    Cass Robert Sunstein

  • On the Expressive Function of Law

    Cass Robert Sunstein

  • Beyond the Republican Revival

    Cass R. Sunstein

  • The Cost of Rights: Why Liberty Depends on Taxes

    Stephen Holmes;Cass R. Sunstein

  • Democracy and the Problem of Free Speech

    Cass R. Sunstein

  • The Partial Constitution

    Cass R. Sunstein

  • Laws of Fear: Beyond the Precautionary Principle

    Cass R. Sunstein

  • Interest groups in American public law

    Cass R. Sunstein

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

    Cass R. Sunstein

  • Availability Cascades and Risk Regulation

    Timur Kuran;Cass R. Sunstein

  • Infotopia: How Many Minds Produce Knowledge

    Cass R. Sunstein

  • Libertarian Paternalism

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  • Interpreting Statutes in the Regulatory State

    Cass R. Sunstein

  • Republic.com

    Cass R. Sunstein

  • Lochner's Legacy

    Cass R. Sunstein

  • The President and the Administration

    Cass R. Sunstein;Lawrence Lessig

  • Why Nudge?: The Politics of Libertarian Paternalism

    Cass R. Sunstein

  • Naked Preferences and the Constitution

    Cass R. Sunstein

  • Conspiracy Theories: Causes and Cures*

    Cass R. Sunstein;Adrian Vermeule

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

    Cass R. Sunstein;David Schkade;Lisa Michelle Ellman;Andres Sawicki

  • A Behavioral Approach to Law and Economics

    Christine Jolls;Christine Jolls;Cass R. Sunstein;Richard H. Thaler;Richard H. Thaler

  • The Construction of Preference: Libertarian Paternalism Is Not an Oxymoron

    Cass R. Sunstein;Richard H. Thaler

Frequent Co-Authors

Lucia A. Reisch
Lucia A. Reisch Copenhagen Business School
David A. Schkade
David A. Schkade University of California, San Diego
Eric A. Posner
Eric A. Posner University of Chicago
Adrian Vermeule
Adrian Vermeule Harvard University
Daniel Kahneman
Daniel Kahneman Princeton University
Martha Craven Nussbaum
Martha Craven Nussbaum University of Chicago
Reid Hastie
Reid Hastie University of Chicago
Tali Sharot
Tali Sharot University College London
Philip E. Tetlock
Philip E. Tetlock University of Pennsylvania
Stephan Lewandowsky
Stephan Lewandowsky University of Bristol

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