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Harvard Law School professor Cass R. Sunstein ’75 will lead President-elect Barack Obama’s efforts to reform government regulation and the regulatory process, according to media reports...
...Sunstein will head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, a little-known body that oversees new agency regulations that largely fell by the way-side as the Bush administration advanced a deregulatory agenda...
...regulatory czar, Sunstein will be charged with overseeing the federal government’s regulatory standards in areas like the environment, consumer safety, and health. In addition, Sunstein may also review new regulations to reform the financial services industry...
...Kagan poached top faculty like super-star legal scholar Cass R. Sunstein ’75 and Lawrence Lessig. She encouraged intellectual diversity among the faculty, notably hiring Jack L. Goldsmith, a conservative lawyer from the Bush White House, whose office stirred controversy for supporting the use of torture by the government. [CORRECTION APPENDED...
Kagan has received praise for record fundraising, winning approval for significant changes to the first-year curriculum, and poaching distinguished law professors like Chicago’s Cass R. Sunstein ‘75 and Stanford’s Lawrence Lessig...