Jon D. Hanson

Harvard Law School

Alfred Smart Professor of Law

1563 Massachusetts

Griswold 403

Cambridge, MA 02138

United States

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The Situation: An Introduction to the Situational Character, Critical Realism, Power Economics, and Deep Capture

University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 152, p. 129, 2003-2004, Santa Clara Univ. Legal Studies Research Paper No. 06-17, Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 08-32
Number of pages: 219 Posted: 17 Oct 2006 Last Revised: 30 Sep 2008
Jon D. Hanson and David G. Yosifon
Harvard Law School and Santa Clara University - School of Law
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Taking Behavioralism Seriously: The Problem of Market Manipulation

New York University Law Review, Vol. 74, p. 632, 1999, Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 08-54
Number of pages: 118 Posted: 24 Oct 2008 Last Revised: 16 Nov 2008
Jon D. Hanson and Douglas A. Kysar
Harvard Law School and Yale University - Law School
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law and economics, economics, economic behavioralism, behavioralism, law and behavioralism, manipulation, market manipulation, heuristic, biases, products liability

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The Blame Frame: Justifying (Racial) Injustice in America

Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, Vol. 41, 2006, Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 08-47
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 09 Aug 2008 Last Revised: 14 Oct 2008
Jon D. Hanson and Kathleen Hanson
Harvard Law School and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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justifying injustice, race, blame frames, social psychology, American history, injustice dissonance, choicism, race card card, Katrina

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The Situational Character: A Critical Realist Perspective on the Human Animal

Georgetown Law Journal, Vol. 93, No. 1, 2004, Santa Clara Univ. Legal Studies Research Paper No. 06-19, Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 08-33
Number of pages: 182 Posted: 18 Oct 2006 Last Revised: 14 Oct 2008
Jon D. Hanson and David G. Yosifon
Harvard Law School and Santa Clara University - School of Law
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Situationist Torts

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review, Vol. 41, 2008, Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 08-35
Number of pages: 110 Posted: 01 Jul 2008 Last Revised: 21 Jul 2013
Jon D. Hanson and Michael McCann
Harvard Law School and Harvard University - Harvard Law School
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The Great Attributional Divide: How Divergent Views of Human Behavior are Shaping Legal Policy

Emory Law Journal, Vol. 57, 2008, Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 08-38
Number of pages: 99 Posted: 18 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 27 Feb 2011
Adam Benforado and Jon D. Hanson
Drexel University Kline School of Law and Harvard Law School
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law, legal theory, ideology, psychology, situationism, realism

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Broken Scales: Obesity and Justice in America

Emory Law Journal, Vol. 53, p. 1645, 2004, Santa Clara Univ. Legal Studies Research Paper No. 06-16
Number of pages: 163 Posted: 17 Oct 2006
Jon D. Hanson, Adam Benforado and David G. Yosifon
Harvard Law School, Drexel University Kline School of Law and Santa Clara University - School of Law
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Law and Economics

A COMPANION TO PHILOSOPHY OF LAW AND LEGAL THEORY, Dennis Patterson, ed., 2010, U of Colorado Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1529806, Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 10-14
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 31 Dec 2009 Last Revised: 13 Feb 2010
Jon D. Hanson, Kathleen Hanson and Melissa Hart
Harvard Law School, affiliation not provided to SSRN and University of Colorado Law School
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Law and Economics, efficicency, Hand Formula, Carroll Towing, legal history, economic behavioralism, situationism, Richard Posner, distribution

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Taking Behavioralism Seriously: Some Evidence of Market Manipulation

Harvard Law Review, Vol. 112, p. 1420, 1999, Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 08-52
Number of pages: 149 Posted: 19 Oct 2008 Last Revised: 21 Jan 2009
Jon D. Hanson and Douglas A. Kysar
Harvard Law School and Yale University - Law School
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economic behavioralism, market manipulation, marketing, public relations, products liability, law and economics, tobacco industry, cigarette industry

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The Illusion of Law: The Legitimating Schemas of Modern Policy and Corporate Law

Michigan Law Review, Vol. 103, p. 1, 2004
Number of pages: 149 Posted: 26 Feb 2007
Ronald C. Chen and Jon D. Hanson
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz and Harvard Law School
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Schemas, Knowledge Structures, Corporate Law, Shareholder Primacy, Profits, Policy Scripts, Corporations

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Ideology, Psychology, and Law

Ideology, Psychology and Law, 2012, Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 12-18
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 29 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 28 Jun 2012
Jon D. Hanson
Harvard Law School
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Ideology, Psychology, Law, Legal Theory, Social Psychology, Mind Sciences, Social Cognition

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Categorically Biased: The Influence of Knowledge Structures on Law and Legal Theory

Southern California Law Review, Vol. 77, p. 1103, 2004, Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 08-43
Number of pages: 153 Posted: 20 Aug 2008 Last Revised: 11 Nov 2008
Ronald C. Chen and Jon D. Hanson
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz and Harvard Law School
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social psychology, social cognition, knowledge structures, categories, schemas, primacy, priming, affect, implicit motivations, legal realism, deep capture, illusion of law

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Naive Cynicism: Maintaining False Perceptions in Policy Debates

Emory Law Journal, Vol. 57, 2008, Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 08-37
Number of pages: 77 Posted: 18 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 30 Sep 2008
Adam Benforado and Jon D. Hanson
Drexel University Kline School of Law and Harvard Law School
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law, legal theory, ideology, psychology, situationism, realism, naive realism, abu ghraib

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Taking Behavioralism Seriously: A Response to Market Manipulation

Number of pages: 139 Posted: 25 Apr 2001
Jon D. Hanson and Douglas A. Kysar
Harvard Law School and Yale University - Law School
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Torts, Products Liability, Behavioral Law and Economics

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Legal Academic Backlash: The Response of Legal Theorists to Situationist Insights

Emory Law Journal, Vol. 57, No. 5, 2008, Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 08-45
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 11 Aug 2008 Last Revised: 27 Feb 2011
Adam Benforado and Jon D. Hanson
Drexel University Kline School of Law and Harvard Law School
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social psychology, social cognition, naive cynicism, naive realism, legal theory, policy debates, economic behavioralism

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Occupy Justice: Introducing the Injustice Framework

Harvard Law & Policy Review, Vol. 15, No. 2, 2021, Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 22-15
Number of pages: 138 Posted: 06 May 2022 Last Revised: 22 Jul 2022
Jon D. Hanson and Jacob Lipton
Harvard Law School and Justice Catalyst
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justice, injustice, legal theory, systemic justice, social activism, Occupy Wall Street, Declaration of Independence, Declaration of Rights and Sentiments, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Letter from Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King, Frederick Douglass, New Deal, Brown v. Board of Education, Earl Warren

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The Costs of Dispositionism: The Premature Demise of Situationist Law and Economics

University of Maryland Law Review, Vol. 64, p. 24, 2005, Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 09-10
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 16 Jan 2009 Last Revised: 06 Feb 2009
Adam Benforado and Jon D. Hanson
Drexel University Kline School of Law and Harvard Law School
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legal theory, law and econonomics, situationism, dispositionism, legal history, intellectual history, social psychology, Richard Posner, Guido Calabresi, ideology

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The Drifters: Why the Supreme Court Makes Justices More Liberal

Boston Review, Vol. 31, No. 1, 2006
Posted: 17 Nov 2020
Adam Benforado and Jon D. Hanson
Drexel University Kline School of Law and Harvard Law School

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