Jon Hanson

Jon Hanson is the Alfred Smart Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where he has taught since 1992. His scholarship, which melds social psychology, social cognition, economics, and law, includes the following: Situationist Torts, 41 LOYOLA L.A. L. REV. 1345 (2008) (with Michael McCann); Legal Academic Backlash: The Response of Legal Theorists to Situationist Insights, EMORY L.J. (2008) (with Adam Benforado); The Blame Frame: Justifying (Racial) Oppression in America, 41 HARV. C.R.-C.L. L. REV. 413 (2006) (with Kathleen Hanson); The Illusion of Law: The Legitimating Schemas of Modern Policy and Corporate Law, 103 U. MICH. L. REV. 1 (2004) (with Ron Chen); Broken Scales: Obesity and Justice in America, 53 EMORY L.J. 1645 (2004) (with Adam Benforado & David Yosifon); The Situation: An Introduction to the Situational Character, Critical Realism, Power Economics, & Deep Capture, 152 U. PENN. L. REV. 129 (2003) (with David Yosifon).

Hanson is currently editing a book, titled "Ideology, Psychology, and Law," for Oxford University Press. Hanson is the Director of The Project on Law and Mind Sciences at Harvard Law School and a co-creator and a contributor to The Situationist blog.

Jon Hanson is married, with three children, and lives in Lexington, Massachusetts.