Dan Kahan

Dan M. Kahan
On the Science and Public Policy Panel at CSICon Nashville, October 27, 2012
Nationality	American
Fields	Professor of Law
Institutions	Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor at Yale Law School
Known for	Cultural cognition
Influences	Jeremy Bentham, Karl Llewellyn, Abraham Goldstein

Dan M. Kahan is the Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of law at Yale Law School. He is a specialist in the fields of criminal law and evidence and is known for his theory of cultural cognition.

After attending a boarding school in Vermont, Kahan received a B.A. summa cum laude from Middlebury College in 1986, where he studied under Murray Dry. While at Middlebury, he spent his junior year at Lincoln College, Oxford. He then received a J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1989, where he learned Tort Law from Lewis Sargentich and Criminal Law from Charles Ogletree. While at HLS, he served as president of the Harvard Law Review for volume 102.

After law school, Kahan served as a law clerk to Judge Harry T. Edwards of the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit (1989–90) and then to Justice Thurgood Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court (1990–91). After clerking, he worked as an attorney for Mayer, Brown & Platt in Washington D.C. (1991–93). In 1993, Kahan joined the faculty of the University of Chicago Law School where he worked with Elena Kagan. He joined the Yale Law School faculty in 1999. At Yale, he is one of the instructors in the Law School's Supreme Court Advocacy Clinic and a professor of Criminal Law and Administration. He is a recurring Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School.