Gary L. McDowell Institute presents Cass Sunstein

The Gary L. McDowell Institute (GMI) welcomes best-selling author and American legal scholar Cass Sunstein in a public lecture on the topic of his recent book, On Liberalism: In Defense of Freedom (2024).

Known for his work in U.S. constitutional law, administrative law, environmental law, and behavioral economics, Mr. Sunstein is currently the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard and the founder and director of the Program on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy at Harvard Law School. In 2018, he received the Holberg Prize from the government of Norway, sometimes described as the equivalent of the Nobel Prize for law and the humanities. In 2020, the World Health Organization appointed him as Chair of its technical advisory group on Behavioural Insights and Sciences for Health. From 2009 to 2012, he was Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, and after that, he served on the President’s Review Board on Intelligence and Communications Technologies and on the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Board.

Mr. Sunstein is the prolific author of hundreds of articles and dozens of books, including Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness (with Richard H. Thaler, 2008), Simpler: The Future of Government (2013), The Ethics of Influence (2015), #Republic (2017), Impeachment: A Citizen’s Guide (2017), The Cost-Benefit Revolution (2018), On Freedom (2019), Conformity (2019), How Change Happens (2019), and Too Much Information (2020).

This event is free and registration will begin three weeks prior to the event date.