On Monday, October 18th, the HLS Student Association for Law and Mind Sciences (SALMS) and the American Constitution Society (ACS) are hosting a talk by Yale professor Dan Kahan entitled “The Laws of Cultural Cognition, and the Cultural Cognition of Law.
Professor Kahan is the Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of Law at Yale Law School. A graduate of Harvard Law School, Professor Kahan clerked for both for Justice Thurgood Marshall and Judge Harry T. Edwards of the District of Columbia Circuit United States Court of Appeals.
Professor Kahan is well-known for his work in the area of cultural cognition, or the study of how people assess the degree of risk in a given situation based on their culturally engrained concepts of good behavior. He leads the Cultural Cognition Project, which researches the history and impact of this phenomenon along with its mechanistic underpinnings. His work has had a profound impact upon criminal legal scholarship, particularly in relation to his theory that shame-based penalties should be implemented in criminal law.
Professor Kahan will be speaking in Austin North. Lunch will be provided!
For more information, e-mail salms@law.harvard.edu.
To review a collection of Situationist posts about cultural cognition, click here.
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