Dan M. Kahan is the Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of law at Yale Law School. He is a leading scholar in the fields of criminal law and evidence and is known for his theory of Cultural cognition.
Professor Kahan received a B.A. summa cum laude from Middlebury College in 1986, after attending a boarding school in Vermont. While at Middlebury, he spent his Junior year at Lincoln College of Oxford University. He then received a J.D. magna cum laude ...
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Dan M. Kahan is the Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of law at Yale Law School. He is a leading scholar in the fields of criminal law and evidence and is known for his theory of Cultural cognition.
Professor Kahan received a B.A. summa cum laude from Middlebury College in 1986, after attending a boarding school in Vermont. While at Middlebury, he spent his Junior year at Lincoln College of Oxford University. 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, Professor 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, Professor Kahan...
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