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...Back at HLS, Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law Cass Sunstein advocates a middle course. He argues that the real problem is not animals’ property status, but the lack of enforcement of current animal welfare statues by state prosecutors indifferent to institutionalized animal cruelty. He proposes allowing private citizens or advocacy groups to take suits on behalf of animals—a system that would both bring animal abusers to book and disincentivize abuses in the first place...
...Cass R. Sunstein ’75, a recently appointed professor at Harvard Law School, discussed the poisonous spread of spurious information in a society that is growing ever more technological, and the ramifications of this on the press and the law, in a speech yesterday. Sunstein, whose lecture was in honor of his recent appointment as the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law, surmised that in an information age when not all sources can be trusted, especially on the Internet, the public will begin “triangulating” its sources, not believing in any one, trusted source...
...thought it was a very good introduction,” Harvard Law student Samantha A. Crane said of Sunstein, adding, “I really like his idea...
...felt the audience was fantastic, both in size and in quality,” Sunstein said. “The people asked great questions, and to see people engaged on issues of law and human behavior and social science was great...
...audience posed a number of questions to Sunstein. They asked him about his views on president-elect Obama, whom Sunstein has advised, and questioned him on the value of the “nudge” method in affecting smoking and environmental change...