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Obama to appoint Harvard law professor to oversee government regulations

By Bernard Hibbitts (editor) and University of Pittsburgh School of Law students.

[JURIST] US President-elect Barack Obama will appoint Harvard Law School professor Cass Sunstein as administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, according to reports Wednesday in the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post. Sunstein will be responsible for governmental regulations and will deal with issues including changes to the financial services industry, the development of universal healthcare, and efforts to control greenhouse gas emissions. Sunstein previously taught at the University of Chicago Law School and served as a clerk for US Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. On Monday, Obama named four former Clinton-era attorneys to high-level posts within the US Department of Justice (DOJ), including Dean of Harvard Law School Elena Kagan as Solicitor General. Last month, Obama officially announced that he was nominating former DOJ official Eric Holder as the next US attorney general. If confirmed by the Senate, Holder will be the first African American to lead the DOJ. Holder served as Deputy Attorney General during the Clinton Administration and led Obama's VP selection team during the election. Holder's confirmation hearings are scheduled to begin next week.

Full post as published by JURIST - The Paper Chase on January 08, 2009 (boomark / email).