Introduction
Regulation and Interpretation
The Anachronistic Legal Culture

1. Why Regulation?
A Historical Overview
Public and Private Ordering

2. The Functions of Regulatory Statutes
Market Failures
Public-Interested Redistribution
Collective Desires and Aspirations
Diverse Experiences and Preference Formation
Social Subordination Endogenous Preferences
Irreversibility, Future Generations, Animals, and Nature
Interest-Group Transfers and "Rent-Seeking"
The Problem of Categorization

3. How Regulation Fails
Failures in the Original Statute
Implementation Failure
Linking Statutory Function to Statutory Failure
Paradoxes of the Regulatory State--and Reform

4. Courts, Interpretation, and Norms
Flawed Approaches to Statutory Interpretation
Interpretive Principles
An Alternative Method

5. Interpretive Principles for the Regulatory State
The Principles
Priority and Harmonization
Fissures in the Interpretive Community
The Postcanonical Legal Universe

6. Applications, the New Deal, and Statutory Construction
Particulars
The New Deal and Statutory Construction

Conclusion
The Constitution of the Regulatory State--and Its Reform
Interpreting the Regulatory State

Appendix A. Interpretive Principles

Appendix B. Selected Regulations in Terms of Cost Per Life Saved

Appendix C. The Growth of Administrative Government

Notes

Index

Cass R. Sunstein is Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard University.

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