Cass R. Sunstein is the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard University and the founder and director of the Program on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy at Harvard Law School. He is the recipient of Norway's Holberg Prize, which is sometimes described as the equivalent of the Nobel Prize for law and the humanities. His many books include the New York Times bestseller Nudge (with Richard H. Thaler), On Freedom (Princeton), and #Republic (Princeton).
"Longlisted for the Edwards Book Award, Rodel Institute"
"An extraordinary work. . . . Sunstein carries the novice reader
across this difficult terrain without simplifying the subject and
manages to let his own passionate views shine through without
shortchanging others. The book is an education."---Jessica T.
Mathews, Foreign Affairs
"At a time of impassioned divisiveness over the Constitution,
Harvard Law profess Cass Sunstein's How to Interpret the
Constitution is a genuinely courteous book. [He] conveys a hopeful
sense that open-minded people who give the reasons for their
constitutional thinking will make manifest . . . a better
constitutional order."---Richard Blaustein, Washington Lawyer
"Despite the author’s fair-mindedness, it’s clear that his main
targets are the originalist and traditionalist arguments that have
recently captured the radical right and are overturning decades of
settled constitutional law. Is Sunstein’s interpretive scheme
strong enough to halt the further advance of originalist and
traditionalist thinking on the Supreme Court? Probably not. But
it’s a brave, muscular, and compelling roadblock now standing in
the way of originalist ideologues. This book should be in the hands
of every law student, constitutional lawyer, judge, and Supreme
Court justice. One of the most significant works about
constitutional interpretation in recent years."
*Kirkus Reviews (Starred review)*
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