The Situationist

This blawg "is a forum for scholars, students, lawyers, policy-makers, and interested citizens to examine, discuss, and debate the effect of situational forces—that is, nonsalient factors around and within us—on law, policy, politics, policy theory, and our social, political and economic institutions."

Author: The blawg's creators are Jon Hanson, a professor at Harvard Law School, and Michael McCann, a visiting associate professor at Boston College Law school who also contributes to Sports Law Blog. Contributors include Dan Kahan, a professor at Yale Law School.

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Recent Posts from The Situationist

The Corporate Situation of the Prison Population
In the video below, Free Speech TV’s news magazine program SourceCode looks inside the private prison boom, and at the growing opposition to for-profit private prisons, jails, and detention centers. * * * * *…
Situationism in the Blogosphere – October 2009, Part I
Below, we’ve posted titles and a brief quotation from some of our favorite non-Situationist situationist blogging during October 2009 (they are listed in alphabetical order by source). * * * From 3 Quarks Daily: “Lard…
Asymmetric Introspection and Extrospection
Situationist Contributor Emily Pronin recently wrote a very helpful primer on her work on the difference between “How We See Ourselves and How We See Others,” which she published in Science. Here’s the abstract. *…
The Interior Situation of Honesty (and Dishonesty)
Seed magazine recently provided a terrific summary of fascinating research on the situation of honesty (here). Here are some excerpts. * * * In a famous set of experiments in the 1970s, children were observed…
Jim Sidanius, “Under Color of Authority: Terror, Intergroup Violence and ‘The Law’”
Jim Sidanius is a Professor in the departments of Psychology and African and African American Studies at Harvard University. His primary research interests include the political psychology of gender, group conflict, institutional discrimination and the…
The Situation of Gang Rape
* * * In the wake of the horrific story about a 15-year-old girl gang-raped in a schoolyard during a homecoming dance. The girl was brutalized for more than two hours and, if that wasn’t…
The Situation of the “Curveball”
From U.S. News: “Physically, there is no such thing as a breaking curveball,” said Zhong-Lin Lu, who holds the William M. Keck Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Southern California, in Los Angeles.…
Situationism in the Blogosphere – September 2009, Part III
Below, we’ve posted titles and a brief quotation from some of our favorite non-Situationist situationist blogging during September 2009 (they are listed in alphabetical order by source). * * * From PsyBlog: “Group Polarization: The…
Bernard Harcourt on “Neoliberal Penality”
Bernard Harcourt, the Julius Kreeger Professor of Law and professor of political science at the University of Chicago, presented his fascinating paper “Neoliberal Penality: The Birth of Natural Order, the Illusion of Free Markets” at…
The Situation of Fame
CNN’s Elizabeth Landau has written an interesting article, title “How the ‘fame motive’ makes you want to be a star.” Here are some excerpts. * * * As a large silver balloon floated its way…