Dan Kahan is the Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of Law at Yale LawSchool. In addition to risk perception, his areas of research includecriminal law and evidence. He is also one of the instructors in Yale LawSchool’s Supreme Court Advocacy Clinic. Prior to coming to Yale in1999, Professor Kahan was on the faculty of the University of ChicagoLaw School. He served as a law clerk to Justice Thurgood Marshall,of the U.S. Supreme Court and to Judge Harry Edwards of the UnitedStates Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. He received his B.A. fromMiddlebury College and his J.D. from Harvard University.