September 15, 2004

Speaker Biographies

Robert W. Hahn is co-founder and executive director of the American Enterprise Institute-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies and a resident scholar at AEI. Previously, he has worked for the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, Harvard, and Carnegie Mellon University. Mr. Hahn frequently contributes to general-interest periodicals and leading scholarly journals, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, American Economic Review, Yale Law Journal and Science. Recently, he is the author of Reviving Regulatory Reform: A Global Perspective and editor of High-Stakes Antitrust. This year he will publish an AEI-Brookings book on the economic analysis of regulation and an edited volume on intellectual property rights in high-tech industries. In addition, Mr. Hahn is co-founder of the Community Preparatory School––an inner-city middle school in Providence, Rhode Island, that provides opportunities for disadvantaged youth to achieve their full potential.

Cass R. Sunstein is the Karl N. Llewellyn Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago Law School; for part of 2004-2005, he will be Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School. His publications include Risk and Reason (2002), Punitive Damages: How Juries Decide (with several coauthors, including W. Kip Viscusi); The Second Bill of Rights (2004); and Laws of Fear: Beyond the Precautionary Principle (forthcoming 2005).

W. Kip Viscusi is the John F. Cogan, Jr. Professor of Law and Economics and Director of the Program on Empirical Legal Studies at Harvard Law School. Professor Viscusi's research focuses primarily on individual and societal responses to risk and uncertainty. He has published over 20 books and 240 articles, most of which deal with different aspects of health and safety risks. Professor Viscusi is also the Founding Editor of the Journal of Risk and Uncertainty and has served on the editorial boards of eleven other journals, including the American Economic Review and the Review of Economics and Statistics. Professor Viscusi’s estimates of the value of risks to life and health are used throughout the Federal government. He has consulted to many federal agencies on issues pertaining to the valuation of life and health, served on the Science Advisory Board of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for seven years, and has been an expert on a variety of litigation issues, including risk perceptions, economic damages, market share liability, and hazard warnings.

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