Cass R. Sunstein - Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law's Annual Lecture

The Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law is delighted to announce that Professor Cass Sunstein (Harvard Law School) will be delivering this year's Annual Animal Rights Law Lecture on ‘Beyond Kant and Bentham: A Bill of Rights for Nonhuman Animals’.

Cass R. Sunstein is the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard Law School. He is the founder and director of the Program on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy at Harvard Law School. In 2018, he received the Holberg Prize from the government of Norway, sometimes described as the equivalent of the Nobel Prize for law and the humanities. In 2020, the World Health Organization appointed him as Chair of its technical advisory group on Behavioural Insights and Sciences for Health. From 2009 to 2012, he was Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, and after that, he served on the President’s Review Board on Intelligence and Communications Technologies and on the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Board. Professor Sunstein has testified before congressional committees on many subjects, and he has advised officials at the United Nations, the European Commission, the World Bank, and many nations on issues of law and public policy. He has served as an adviser to the Behavioural Insights Team in the United Kingdom.

Professor Sunstein is author of hundreds of articles and dozens of books, including Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness (with Richard H. Thaler, 2008), Simpler: The Future of Government (2013), The Ethics of Influence (2015), #Republic (2017), Impeachment: A Citizen’s Guide (2017), The Cost-Benefit Revolution (2018), On Freedom (2019), Conformity (2019), How Change Happens (2019), and Too Much Information (2020). He is now working on a variety of projects involving the regulatory state, 'sludge' (defined to include paperwork and similar burdens), fake news, freedom of speech, and animal rights.

EVENT DETAILS

Join us on Wednesday 15 October 2025 at Cambridge University's Faculty of Law from 4:00 pm for the Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law’s Annual Animal Rights Law Lecture. Professor Sunstein's Lecture will be followed by a Q&A and a drinks reception.

Full event address: Cambridge Law Faculty, 10 West Road, Lecture Room LG18, Cambridge, CB3 9DZ, United Kingdom.

There is wheelchair access via the lift on the ground floor, and hearing assistance with induction hearing devices.

If you cannot attend, Professor Sunstein's talk will be recorded and shared via our newsletter which you can subscribe to here.

If there are any issues or questions, please contact info@animalrightslaw.org

PLEASE NOTE: The lecture hall has a limited capacity so, while the event is open for all up until doors close, we will be prioritising entry for those with tickets. Doors open for Eventbrite ticket holders 30 minutes before the event, and 15 minutes before the event for everyone else. Please ensure to arrive on time to avoid missing out.

ABOUT US

The Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law is a UK-registered educational charity and an academic centre of competence dedicated to the study of fundamental rights for non-human animals. Our Annual Lecture is generously sponsored by the Jeremy Coller Foundation.

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