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New Profile of Petrie-Flom Annual Conf. Keynote Speaker Cass Sunstein

By The Petrie-Flom Center The Atlantic has just published a new piece profiling Harvard Law School Professor Cass Sunstein, “Our Nudge in Chief,” exploring “How, and why, Cass Sunstein believes laws and public policies should help save us from our irrational impulses.” Sunstein, the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard Law School, will deliver the keynote…

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The Atlantic has just published a new piece profiling Harvard Law School Professor Cass Sunstein, “Our Nudge in Chief,” exploring “How, and why, Cass Sunstein believes laws and public policies should help save us from our irrational impulses.”

Sunstein, the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard Law School, will deliver the keynote lecture at the Petrie-Flom Center’s upcoming annual conference, “Behavioral Economics, Law, and Health Policy,” on Friday, May 2. His talk is entitled “Choosing Not to Choose.” You can find out more about the conference here.

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  • Petrie-Flom Center

    The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School is a prominent research program dedicated to legal analysis and interdisciplinary scholarship on the questions facing health policymakers, medical professionals, industry leaders, patients, and families. The Center was founded in 2005 through a generous gift from Joseph H. Flom ’48 and the Carroll and Milton Petrie Foundation.