Cass Sunstein
| Cass Sunstein | |
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| Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs | |
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In office September 10, 2009 – August 21, 2012 |
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| President | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Kevin Neyland (Acting) |
| Succeeded by | Boris Bershteyn (Acting) |
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Cass Robert Sunstein September 21, 1954 Concord, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Lisa Ruddick (divorced) Samantha Power (2008–present) |
| Children | 3 |
| Alma mater | Harvard University (BA, JD) |
Cass Robert Sunstein (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, who was the Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Obama administration from 2009 to 2012. For 27 years, Sunstein taught at the University of Chicago Law School. Sunstein is the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard Law School.
Studies of legal publications between 2009 and 2014 found Sunstein to be the most frequently cited American legal scholar by a wide margin, followed by Erwin Chemerinsky and Richard A. Epstein.
Sunstein was born on September 21, 1954 in Concord, Massachusetts to Marian (née Goodrich), a teacher, and Cass Richard Sunstein, a builder, both Jewish. He graduated in 1972 from Middlesex School and in 1975 with a B.A. 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).
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