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Cass Sunstein Biography

Cass Sunstein is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on September 21, 1954 in Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States. Politician who was the Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Barack Obama administration from 2009 to 2012. He taught for nearly three decades at the University of Chicago Law School.

He was opposed to the impeachment of President Bill Clinton.

Sunstein was born on September 21, 1954 in Waban, Massachusetts to Marian (née Goodrich), a teacher, and Cass Richard Sunstein, a builder, both Jewish. He graduated in 1972 from Middlesex School. He has said that as a teenager, he was briefly infatuated with the works of Ayn Rand, though her “contempt[] toward most of humanity” soon turned him away.

Cass Robert Sunstein FBA (born September 21, 1954) is an American legal scholar, particularly in the fields of constitutional law, administrative law, environmental law, and law and behavioral economics, and the New York Times best-selling author of The World According to Star Wars (2016) and Nudge (2008). He was the Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Obama administration from 2009 to 2012.

He married Samantha Power on July 4, 2008.

NameCass Sunstein
First NameCass
Last NameSunstein
OccupationPolitician
BirthdaySeptember 21
Birth Year1954
Place of BirthMassachusetts
Home TownMassachusetts
Birth CountryUnited States
Birth SignVirgo
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SpouseSamantha Power
Children(s)Declan Sunstein, Ellyn Kail, Rian Sunstein

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In the 1980s and early 1990s, Sunstein was married to Lisa Ruddick, whom he met when both were undergraduates at Harvard. She is Associate Professor of English at the University of Chicago, specializing in British modernism. Their marriage ended in divorce. Thereafter, Sunstein dated Martha Nussbaum for almost a decade. Nussbaum is a philosopher, classicist, and professor of law at the University of Chicago.

Cass Sunstein Net Worth

Cass Sunstein is one of the richest Politician from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Cass Sunstein's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He received his J.D. from Harvard Law School where he also was editor of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review.

He was a visiting professor at Columbia Law School and has also taught at Harvard Law School.

The Program on Risk Regulation will focus on how law and policy deal with the central hazards of the 21st century. Anticipated areas of study include terrorism, climate change, occupational safety, infectious diseases, natural disasters, and other low-probability, high-consequence events. Sunstein plans to rely on significant student involvement in the work of this new program.

Net Worth$5 Million
SalaryUnder Review
Source of IncomePolitician
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HouseLiving in own house.

Sunstein joined the Office of Legal Counsel in the Justice Department as an attorney-advisor (1980–1981) and then took a job as an assistant professor of law at the University of Chicago Law School (1981–1983), where he also became an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science (1983–1985). In 1985, Sunstein was made a full professor of both political science and law; in 1988, he was named the Karl N. Llewellyn Professor of Jurisprudence in the Law School and Department of Political Science. The university honored him in 1993 with its “distinguished service” accolade, permanently changing his title to Karl N. Llewellyn Distinguished Service Professor of Jurisprudence in the Law School and Department of Political Science.

Sunstein was the Samuel Rubin Visiting Professor of Law at Columbia Law School in the fall of 1986 and a visiting professor at Harvard Law School in the spring 1987, winter 2005, and spring 2007 terms. He teaches courses in constitutional law, administrative law, and environmental law, as well as the required first-year course “Elements of the Law”, which is an introduction to legal reasoning, legal theory, and the interdisciplinary study of law, including law and economics. In the fall of 2008, he joined the faculty of Harvard Law School and began serving as the director of its Program on Risk Regulation:

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In 1975, he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard College, where he was a member of the varsity squash team and the Harvard Lampoon. In 1978, Sunstein received a J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he was executive editor of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review and part of a winning team of the Ames Moot Court Competition. He served as a law clerk first for Justice Benjamin Kaplan of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1978–1979) and later for Justice Thurgood Marshall of the United States Supreme Court (1979–1980).

He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (elected 1992) and the American Law Institute (since 1990). He received an Honorary Doctorate from Copenhagen Business School.

Who is Cass Sunstein Dating?

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Sunstein’s books include After the Rights Revolution (1990), The Partial Constitution (1993), Democracy and the Problem of Free Speech (1993), Legal Reasoning and Political Conflict (1996), Free Markets and Social Justice (1997), One Case at a Time (1999), Risk and Reason (2002), Why Societies Need Dissent (2003), Laws of Fear: Beyond the Precautionary Principle (2005), Radicals in Robes: Why Extreme Right-Wing Courts Are Wrong for America (2005), Are Judges Political? An Empirical Analysis of the Federal Judiciary (2005), Infotopia: How Many Minds Produce Knowledge (2006), and, co-authored with Richard Thaler, Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness (2008).

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Cass Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Cass Sunstein celebrates birthday on September 21 of every year.

In Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness, Sunstein proposes that government recognition of marriage be discontinued. “Under our proposal, the word marriage would no longer appear in any laws, and marriage licenses would no longer be offered or recognized by any level of government,” argues Sunstein. He continues, “the only legal status states would confer on couples would be a civil union, which would be a domestic partnership agreement between any two people.” He goes on further, “Governments would not be asked to endorse any particular relationships by conferring on them the term marriage,” and refers to state-recognized marriage as an “official license scheme.” Sunstein addressed the Senate on 11 July 1996 advising against the Defense of Marriage Act.

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