Wednesday, February 15, 2017

Cass Sunstein Public Lecture

Professor Cass Sunstein will visit UCD on March 31st. He will speak on "New Directions in Behaviorally Informed Policy". The talk will take place in the UCD Sutherland School of Law from 12pm to 2pm. Registration is free but places are limited by space and we ask participants to register. 

About Professor Sunstein: 

Cass R. Sunstein is currently the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard. From 2009 to 2012, he was Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. He is the founder and director of the Program on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy at Harvard Law School. 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. Mr. Sunstein is author of many articles and books, including Republic.com (2001), Risk and Reason (2002), Why Societies Need Dissent (2003), The Second Bill of Rights (2004), Laws of Fear: Beyond the Precautionary Principle (2005), Worst-Case Scenarios (2001), Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness (with Richard H. Thaler, 2008), Simpler: The Future of Government (2013) and most recently Why Nudge? (2014) and Conspiracy Theories and Other Dangerou s Ideas (2014). He is now working on group decisionmaking and various projects on the idea of liberty

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