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"Is there a right not to be manipulated"?, Cass Sunstein (Harvard Law School)

14 January 2020, 4:00 pm–5:30 pm

Cass Sunstein

Talk by Prof. Cass Sunstein (Harvard Law School): "Is there a right not to be manipulated?"

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Open to

All

Availability

Yes

Organiser

Affective Brain Lab

Location

G03
85: 26 Bedford Way
26 Bedford Way
London
WC1H 0DS
United Kingdom
Talk by Cass 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 Dangerous Ideas (2014). He is now working on group decisionmaking and various projects on the idea of liberty.