“The U.S. is supposed to be a nation of second chances, but for the 70 million Americans with a criminal record, we're not doing such a great job. Even among those whose crimes were nonviolent and committed long ago, too many still bear a scarlet letter.”

American legal scholar and author

Cass Robert Sunstein is an American legal scholar and author. He served from 2009 to 2012 as administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Obama administration. His work ranges across U.S. constitutional law, administrative law, environmental law, and behavioral economics. He is also the co-author of Nudge (2008) and the author of The World According to Star Wars (2016), a New York Times best seller.