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...FM: What is your favorite book that you have authored? CRS: I have two favorites. One is called “Legal Reasoning and Political Conflict” from 1996 and the other is “Why Societies Need Dissent” from 2003. But I recently completed two books and I am under contract to do four more so I hope that I will like one of those six better...
...FM: Who are you pulling for in the presidential election? CRS: My friend and former colleague Barack Obama. I am a long-time admirer of his. I have worked with him since he ran for the Senate on an occasional and informal basis. While I have high opinions of Senator Clinton and John McCain, Obama is my favorite of the three...
...FM: When you make the move to Cambridge in fall of 2008, you will be leading a new program on risk regulation. What is this program about? CRS: The idea is that a lot of the problems the nation and world are now confronting are really about risk. Examples include natural disasters, infectious diseases, climate change, terrorism and nuclear proliferation. There are common questions that cut across these issues—how do humans actually think about risk? When do our thoughts go into the long term, that is, when do we consider the future...
...FM: You are currently the most cited law professor in the country. How much have you written and how do you have the time? CRS: I’m too scared to see how much. I am sure I have written more than 12 books and pretty sure I have written more than 150 law review articles, but I don’t keep a count. I can write in crevices—meaning that if I have a half an hour between a class and meeting I can write in it. I don’t actually work very...
...FM: What did University of Chicago Law School Dean Saul Levmore mean in a Chicago Maroon article about your departure when he said that “there are a couple of personal reasons” for your decision to leave? CRS: I have been at University of Chicago for over two decades. I love the place and I have no problems with my longtime home. When people leave one institution, often there is a sense of dissatisfaction with that institution and I don’t have that. In terms of a career, it can be good...