CASS SUNSTEIN TO REGULATORY AFFAIRS: Obama to Name Lawyer Friend To Regulatory Affairs Position. “President-elect Barack Obama will name Cass R. Sunstein, a close friend and one of the nation’s top constitutional lawyers, to a senior-level post in charge of government regulation, a transition official said.”

Presumably, Sunstein’s approach was prefigured in his most recent book. We talked with him about that in this Glenn & Helen Show interview.

UPDATE: Todd Zywicki thinks it’s a good appointment. I think that’s right. And note Sunstein’s discussion of the Swedish social security privatization plan.