Cass Sunstein Quotes

In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.'

As the lawyer, I found most of it was a matter of research, which I was great at - that's what I did to death - and then basically persuading people that you're right, and they're wrong... I found that the easiest of all the professions to impersonate.

That's the best way to practice law, is writing about it and not having to be in the courtroom!

I'm an academic. It's publish or perish.

The practice of the law is a perfectly distinct art.

Until now, until I actually got into law class, I just never thought of it as being an interest for me, but it's really funny because now that I'm in law, I'm like 'Wow, I could be a lawyer.

I give off rather mixed messages about the law. On the one hand, I can honestly say I don't miss working in a law office. On the other hand I do enjoy watching the law and while the profession may have its problems, I have sold zillions of books out of magnifying them.

I got into law school to supplement my business background. I'm not planning to practice law.

I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of that.

I soon found law school an unmitigated bore.

In general, science journalism concerns itself with what has been published in a handful of peer-reviewed journals - Nature, Cell, The New England Journal of Medicine - which set the agenda.

The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism.

Some of my friends are giving me law books. I love reading those. It's like my relaxation.

The U.S. is blessed with tremendously creative and imaginative law students at places like Chicago, Harvard, Columbia and Yale.

Now, I personally enjoy a really good footnote.

I always ask my law clerks, in addition to reading all the briefs, including all the amici briefs, that if there's a good law review article, they should bring it to me.

It was an interesting experience to work alongside the solicitor general's team and then turn around and argue against them. You certainly grow as a lawyer from getting such a varied set of experiences.

If there's one thing that lawyers know about reading documents, it's to pay attention to the footnotes. In fact, oftentimes the most important information is buried there.

The majority of the wealth of human knowledge is owned by a few publishing companies that hoard information and make billions off licensing fees, although most scholarly articles and journals are paid for by taxpayers through government grants.

Long-term I would love to go to law school.

Most of the papers which are submitted to the Physical Review are rejected, not because it is impossible to understand them, but because it is possible. Those which are impossible to understand are usually published.

Most MBA graduates are hungry for intellectual glamour.

Those in science perform research, have it reviewed by their peers, publish the results, and believe the answer should be obvious.

I want to study law.

While open-access journals have grown rapidly, researchers still have to read the paywalled articles in commercial journals.