Professor Sunstein to Speak on 'Libertarian Paternalism,' Oct. 5
Legal scholar Cass Sunstein will deliver a lecture titled "Libertarian Paternalism Is Not an Oxymoron" at Princeton University, 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 5, in McCosh 50.
Sunstein, a professor of jurisprudence at the University of Chicago Law School, advocates libertarian paternalism as a concept that legitimizes private and public institutions' attempts to steer personal choices without infringing on individual liberty. His lecture will offer examples in many areas, such as government and private entities helping consumers, victims of discrimination and poverty, workers and those at risk from natural disasters.
Sunstein's principal research interests include administrative law, environmental law, welfare law, jurisprudence and constitutional law. He has written numerous books, including "Radicals in Robes: Why Extreme Right-Wing Courts Are Wrong for America" (2005) and the forthcoming "Infotopia: How Many Minds Produce Knowledge" and "Are Judges Political? An Empirical Investigation of the Federal Judiciary."
Sunstein's talk, designated as the Walter E. Edge Lecture, is part of the University’s Public Lecture Series.
We would encourage libertarians in the Princeton area to attend to see just what Prof. Sunstein means by "libertarian paternalism": whether he means giving choices that encourage people to act in their own long term rational self interest, or whether he wants to give biased choices that financially coerce people into acting in a politically correct way, or, worse yet, more of the same old all or nothing, one size fits all style of New Deal government repackaged with a new schtick.
The NHLA has seen big government paternalists up here in NH trying to repackage their nanny state programs in libertarian buzz words. We suspect that Sunstein's lecture will be more of the same, particularly given his past opposition to originalism in Constitutional interpretation, but we are open to being pleasantly surprised.
Sunstein, a professor of jurisprudence at the University of Chicago Law School, advocates libertarian paternalism as a concept that legitimizes private and public institutions' attempts to steer personal choices without infringing on individual liberty. His lecture will offer examples in many areas, such as government and private entities helping consumers, victims of discrimination and poverty, workers and those at risk from natural disasters.
Sunstein's principal research interests include administrative law, environmental law, welfare law, jurisprudence and constitutional law. He has written numerous books, including "Radicals in Robes: Why Extreme Right-Wing Courts Are Wrong for America" (2005) and the forthcoming "Infotopia: How Many Minds Produce Knowledge" and "Are Judges Political? An Empirical Investigation of the Federal Judiciary."
Sunstein's talk, designated as the Walter E. Edge Lecture, is part of the University’s Public Lecture Series.
We would encourage libertarians in the Princeton area to attend to see just what Prof. Sunstein means by "libertarian paternalism": whether he means giving choices that encourage people to act in their own long term rational self interest, or whether he wants to give biased choices that financially coerce people into acting in a politically correct way, or, worse yet, more of the same old all or nothing, one size fits all style of New Deal government repackaged with a new schtick.
The NHLA has seen big government paternalists up here in NH trying to repackage their nanny state programs in libertarian buzz words. We suspect that Sunstein's lecture will be more of the same, particularly given his past opposition to originalism in Constitutional interpretation, but we are open to being pleasantly surprised.
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