 | Dan Kahan |
Dan M. Kahan, the new Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of Law, specializes in criminal law and evidence and the deterrence of crime, and is considered one of the foremost experts on shame punishment -- criminal punishments designed to humiliate perpetrators and which are often given in lieu of prison sentences.
His books include "Urgent Times: Policing and Rights in Inner-City Communities" (with Tracey Meares) and the forthcoming "The Logic of Reciprocity: A Theory of Collection Action and Law" (2004). He has written several book chapters dealing with subjects ranging from the gun control debate to the influence of disgust in criminal law. Kahan's numerous articles on criminal law have appeared in academic journals such as the Harvard Law Review, the Georgetown Law Journal and the Columbia Law Review, and in such newspapers as the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post.
A summa cum laude graduate of Middlebury College, Kahan earned his law degree from Harvard Law School, where he was president of the Harvard Law Review. He was a law clerk to Judge Harry T. Edwards of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and then clerked for Justice Thurgood Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Kahan served briefly with the law firm May, Brown & Platt in Washington, D.C., before joining the faculty of the University of Chicago Law School in 1993. He taught there until 1998 and then was a visiting professor at the Yale and Harvard Law Schools before joining the Yale faculty in 1999.
Kahan is co-editor of Criminal Law and Procedure Abstracts (with Paul Robinson) and is a member of the editorial board for "Encyclopedia of Crime & Justice," now in its second edition. He has given lectures and presentations on issues of criminal law at law schools and law conferences throughout the nation. He is frequently contacted by the media for his expertise on criminal sentencing involving shame and on the value of emotions in criminal sentencing.
The Yale law professor has received research support from the National Science Foundation. He is a member of the American Bar Association, the Maryland Bar Association, the Bar of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and the Bar of the United States Supreme Court.
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Dan Kahan appointed the
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