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Dan M. Kahan

Dan M. Kahan is the Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of Law and the deputy dean at Yale Law School.

Articles

The good news about the culture wars.
John Gastil, Dan M. Kahan, Donald Braman

Forums

The difficult choices surrounding building searches, curfews, anti-loitering provisions, and the like should be made by the individuals with the biggest stake in them.

Dan M. Kahan, Tracey L. Meares

Forum Responses

Rights don’t determine their own content. Some institution-meaning some person-must decide whether inner-city curfews, gang-loitering laws, and building searches unreasonably subordinate liberty to order. So who should be empowered to make that...
Dan M. Kahan, Tracey L. Meares

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