independence constitution precautionary constitutional

books:

The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of America

3 reviews

Georgetown University Press, 2003

When in the course of human events...
Every home in the United States should have a copy of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States. Contrary to what is often thought, given the giant reputation and high esteem of these documents, the texts are in fact quite short - the Declaration takes but a few pages, and the Constitution (even with all amendments) takes but a few more. This book includes a ...

Republic.com 2.0
Cass R. Sunstein

Princeton University Press, 2007

What happens to democracy and free speech if people use the Internet to create echo chambers--to listen and speak only to the like-minded? What is the democratic benefit of the Internet's unlimited choices if citizens narrowly limit the information they receive, creating ever-smaller niches and fragmenting the shared public conversation on which democracy depends? Cass Sunstein first asked these questions before 9/11, in Republic.com , and they ...

Animal Rights: Current Debates and New Directions

5 reviews

Oxford University Press, USA, 2005

The New Standard
Nussbaum and Sunstein have put together something very special. This book mixes the standard animal rights fare of Singer, Wise, and Francione with exciting new contributions by thinkers like Catharine MacKinnon, Richard Posner, as well as Sunstein and Nussbaum themselves. The book is well edited, with the various chapters flowing from issue to issue, and responding to each others arguments. ...

Infotopia: How Many Minds Produce Knowledge

8 reviews
Cass R. Sunstein

Oxford University Press, USA, 2008

Like The Wisdom of Crowds without the hype
There's a lot of overlap between James Surowiecki's The Wisdom of Crowds and Infotopia, but Infotopia is a good deal more balanced and careful to avoid exaggeration. This makes Infotopia less exciting but more likely to convince a thoughtful reader. It devotes a good deal of attention to conditions which make groups less wise than individuals as well as conditions where groups outperform the best ...

Constitutional Law 2007 (Case Supplement)
Geoffrey R. Stone, Louis M. Seidman, ...

Aspen Publishers, 2007

The First Amendment, Third Edition

1 review
Geoffrey R. Stone, Louis M. Seidman, ...

Aspen Publishers, Inc., 2008

Excellent In-Depth Survey of First Amendment Law
Read this book as part of my law school class in the First Amendment (before taking Constitutional Law) and found it to be well worth the price. First Amendment law can be confusing, and the Court has refined its many approaches over nearly a century of jurisprudence. If you are seriously interested in understanding the role the First Amendment plays in this nation's history, and are not put off ...

Constitutional Law (Casebook) (Casebook)

13 reviews
Geoffrey R. Stone, Louis M. Seidman, ...

Aspen Publishers, Inc., 2005

Reasonable - Good Historical Materials
I've had cause to study this book a little for a course in Constitutional Problems at the University of Western Australia. Inevitably - while my requirements cannot be as detailed or exhaustive as that of my American friends, I found it a useful guide to the major cases and enjoyed the historical references. I particularly enjoyed the Race and the Constitution (equality and 14th amendment stuff) ...

Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness

40 reviews
Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein

Yale University Press, 2008

Very Insightful
Nutshell review - The book covers Libertarian Paternalism, how to help people be free in their choices and, at the same time, help them make better and more informed ones. A very insightful and informative book about human nature, human behaviour and into ways in which we can improve our decision making processes.

Worst-Case Scenarios

2 reviews
Cass R. Sunstein

Harvard University Press, 2007

Superb discussion of cost benefit analysis applied to extreme situations
Cass Sunstein has written a superb analysis of how cost benefit analysis can usefully be applied to extreme situations - worst case scenarios. He takes up two - mostly climate change, but then compares it to counterterrorism. My comments below focus on the application of cost benefit analysis in responses to terrorism; I admire Sunstein's analysis, but think it has limitations in its ...

Administrative Law and Regulatory Policy: Problems, Text, and Cases

1 review
Richard B. Stewart, Cass R. Sunstein, ...

Aspen Publishers, Inc., 2006

A "best sellers" of administrative law
This is a complete and remarkable book about administrative law, in which the study of administrative procedure is preponderant, especially from the perspective of the cases.

Are Judges Political?: An Empirical Analysis of the Federal Judiciary

1 review
Cass R. Sunstein, David Schkade, ...

Brookings Institution Press, 2006

More Insight into Behavior on the U.S. Courts of Appeals
This is the second of two current book-length examinations of judicial behavior on the United States Courts of Appeals. The other book is "Judging on a Collegial Court" by Hettinger et al., also reviewed on Amazon. The Courts of Appeals, or middle level of the federal court system, merit such attention because for nearly all federal litigation, they are the ultimate court of decision as they ...

Why Societies Need Dissent (Oliver Wendell Holmes Lectures)

7 reviews
Cass R. Sunstein

Harvard University Press, 2005

Must-read for anyone who works in groups
I really enjoyed this book. It was very readable and well written. I appreciated how the viewpoints and examples used were neutral and usable regardless of the reader's perspective on any issue. Some of the more interesting points were: (1) an explanation of the pressure to conform, and why this pressure is surprisingly high even among those who consider themselves independent thinkers (2) ...

Free Markets and Social Justice

2 reviews
Cass R. Sunstein

Oxford University Press, USA, 1999

Balanced analysis of markets
The author provides a balance between recognizing the value that is embodied in free markets and realizing that they are not an end in themselves. Rather, the author writes that markets are best evaluated on the basis not of some imagined inherent worth, but on the basis of their practical effects in real life. By taking the focus away from the theoretical premises of free markets and ...

The Second Bill of Rights: FDR'S Unfinished Revolution and Why We Need It More than Ever

7 reviews
Cass R. Sunstein

Basic Books, 2004

FDR's vision
The idea of the Second Bill of Rights appeared in the classic State of the Union address by Franklin Roosevelt in 1944, and is an underground current of American culture. It was also in part the inspiration for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. That this speech, and the real FDR, is so little known tells us something of the times, but the birth of an idea foretells perhaps its future ...

Democracy and the Problem of Free Speech

1 review
Cass R. Sunstein

Free Press, 1995

If Money is Speech, Speech is Not Free
Cass Sunstein begins with a thesis that is very simple. I'd explain it like this. "Speech is not free if ordinary citizens do not possess it." Then, he elaborates on this fundamental idea in great detail. The problem is that our courts over many years have defined speech as something similar to a market commodity. Now, it's equated with access to TV and radio, which is purchased at a very high ...

Risk and Reason: Safety, Law, and the Environment

4 reviews
Cass R. Sunstein

Cambridge University Press, 2004

Huge Helping of Reason, Needs Salt
The bottom line on this book is clear: our governance of risk to the public tends to be managed by political gut reaction rather than informed investigation; there is no clear doctrine for studying and articulating risk (for example, distinguishing between high risks to a few and low but sustained risks to the many, or between three levels of cost-benefit analysis so that choices can be made); ...

Laws of Fear: Beyond the Precautionary Principle (The Seeley Lectures)

1 review
Cass R. Sunstein

Cambridge University Press, 2005

Fear rules
Not a lawyer found the writing somewhat turgid and slow; on the other hand our decision making and valuation of life and risk is certainly not epistimic. Read just before the Black Swan which discusses risk from a different angle. For those involoved in lives with risks this is interesting reading

The Partial Constitution

1 review
Cass R. Sunstein

Harvard University Press, 1998

A powerful contribution do constitucional doctrine
When I was in my first years teaching constitutional law and writing a book on church and state in Portugal this book was perhaps the most important I read. The insights of Cass Sunstein helped to build a more persuasive case for religions freedom and equality in Portugal. Cass Sunstein addresses the constitutional question of determining the right baselines in those cases in which a Constitution ...

Republic.com

20 reviews
Cass R. Sunstein

Princeton University Press, 2002

Thought-provoking, but not really scholarly or scientific
This was an interesting read for the first... 50 or 70 pages. Then it seemed like the info was repeated over and over again without new substantiation... kind of like debating with oneself - I lost interest right there... maybe that's because I have no background in law... However, the main thesis of the book is really thought-provoking for those interested in online communication and polit ...

Behavioral Law and Economics (Cambridge Series on Judgment and Decision Making)

1 review

Cambridge University Press, 2000

Behavioral Economics Comes of Age
There are several prominent legal scholars who work in the interface of social theory and law, but Cass Sunstein is, to my mind, one of the very few really innovative thinkers with full control of social theory. This edited collection shows that the approach he has been working on for the past several years, has finally come of age. The first synthesis of law and economics took place several ...

search for books
administrative, constitution, constitutional, independence, precautionary

Impressum / about us