Jon D. Hanson

Alfred Smart Professor of Law

Research Interests

• Corporate Law
• Law and Mind Sciences
• Situationism
• Torts /Product Liability Law

Education

• Rice University B.A. 1986, Economics and Public Policy
• Yale Law School J.D. 1990
• Yale Law School Postdoctoral Fellow 1991

Appointments

• Assistant Professor of Law, 1992
• Professor of Law, 1997
• Alfred Smart Professor of Law, 2007

Other Information

2011-2012 Faculty Disclosures re: Related Outside Interests and Activities

Representative Publications

• Ideology, Psychology, and Law (Jon D. Hanson ed., Oxford University Press 2012).
  (website: http://ideopsylaw.wordpress.com/)
  
• Hanson, Jon D. "Ideology, Psychology, and Law: Introduction" in Ideology, Psychology, and Law (Jon D. Hanson ed., Oxford University Press, 2012).
  Full text: SSRN
  
• Hanson, Jon D. & Kathleen Hanson. "The Blame Frame: Justifying (Racial) Injustice in America," 41 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 413 (2006).
  Full text: SSRN
  
• Chen, Ron & Jon D. Hanson. "Categorically Biased: The Influence of Knowledge Structures on Law and Legal Theory," 77 U.S. California Law Review 1103 (2004).
  Full text: SSRN
  
• Hanson, Jon D. & David Yosifon. "The Situational Character: A Critical Realist Perspective on the Human Animal," 93 Georgetown Law Journal 1 (2004).
  Full text: SSRN
  
• Benforado, Adam, Jon D. Hanson & David Yosifon. "Broken Scales: Obesity and Justice in America," 53 Emory Law Review 1645 (2004).
  Full text: SSRN
  
• Chen, Ron & Jon D. Hanson. "The Illusion of Law: The Legitimating Schemas of Modern Policy and Corporate Law," 103 Michigan Law Review 1 (2004).
  Full text: SSRN
  
• Hanson, Jon D. & David Yosifon. "The Situation: An Introduction to the Situational Character, Critical Realism, Power Economics, and Deep Capture," 152 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 129 (2003).
  Full text: SSRN
  
• Hanson, Jon D. & Douglas A. Kysar. "Taking Behavioralism Seriously: Some Evidence of Market Manipulation," 112 Harvard Law Review 1420 (1999).
  Full text: SSRN
  

Bibliography

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