Brennan Center for Justice

The Brennan Center Jorde Symposium, an annual event, was created in 1996 to sponsor top scholarly discourse and writing from a variety of perspectives on issues that were central to the legacy of William J. Brennan, Jr. This year's lecture focused on how regulatory agencies analyze the costs and benefits of public policies when those benefits are not easily quantifiable.

Keynote speaker:
Cass R. Sunstein (Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard University)

with commentators:
Dan Farber (Sho Sato Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley)
Lisa Heinzerling (Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center)
Richard L. Revesz (Lawrence King Professor and Dean Emeritus at New York University School of Law)