TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- Cass R. Sunstein, Karl N. Llewellyn Distinguished Service Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Chicago Law School and a member of the department of political science, will deliver the Daniel Meador Lecture on Risk and the Law March 8 at 2 p.m. at The University of Alabama School of Law.

The lecture, “Irreversible and Catastrophic,” will take place in the Moot Courtroom.

Sunstein earned his A.B., magna cum laude, from Harvard College (1975) and his J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School (1978). He served as executive editor of Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review. He clerked for Justice Benjamin Kaplan of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and Justice Thurgood Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Sunstein has been involved in constitution-making and law reform activities for a number of nations including Ukraine, Poland, China, South Africa and Russia. He has served as a visiting professor at Columbia and Harvard Law Schools. Sunstein also has served as vice chair of the Administrative Law Section of the Association of American Law Schools, a member of the ABA Committee on the future of the FTC, and a member of the President’s Advisory Committee on the Public Service Obligations of Digital Television Broadcasters.

Sunstein is the author of numerous articles and books, including Why Societies Need Dissent (Harvard University Press, 2003); Punitive Damages: How Juries Decide (co-authored, University of Chicago Press, 2002); Risk and Reason (Cambridge University Press, 2002); and Republic.com (Princeton University Press, 2001).

The Daniel J. Meador Lecture was established in 1994 to honor the Law School’s former professor and dean. A 1951 Law School graduate and professor emeritus at the University of Virginia School of Law, Professor Meador delivered the inaugural lecture in the series.