News
- Weaver Program in Law, Brain Sciences, and Behavior
- Weaver Family Program established at VLS with $3.85 million endowment
- Investing in the Emerging Field of Neurolaw
- BBC World Service: Neurolaw and Order
- How Should Justice Policy Treat Young Offenders?
- G2i Knowledge Brief
- fMRI and Lie Detection
- New Paper on Brain Activities During Punishment Decisions
- The Network Press Release
- What, Why and Where to Begin
- Network Overview Knowledge Brief
- Research Network on Law and Neuroscience Granted $1.4M in Additional Funding
- President’s Bioethics Commission Cites Multiple Works of the Research Network
- Neurolaw Listserv
(About / Subscribe / Archive) - Neurolaw Conferences
- News Archives
Featured Publications
- Harnessing the Power of Natural Selection: A New Publication from Prof. Owen Jones
- Goal-Directed Modulation of Neural Memory Patterns: Implications for fMRI-Based Memory Detection
- Coursebook:
Law and Neuroscience - A Primer on Criminal Law and Neuroscience
- Law and Neuroscience: Recommendations Submitted to the President's Bioethics Commission
- Court Review: Special Issue on
Law and Neuroscience - Neuroscientists in Court
- Law and Neuroscience
(Journal of Neuroscience) - Brain Imaging for Legal Thinkers: A Guide for the Perplexed
- Through A Scanner Darkly: Functional Neuroimaging as Evidence of a Criminal Defendant's Past Mental States
- Detecting Individual Memories Through The Neural Decoding Of Memory States And Past Experience
- Law and Neuroscience in the United States
Featured Media
- New Conference Videos from the Research Network
- Gideon Yaffe on Criminal Responsibility & Neuroscience (Yale Dean's Lecture)
- Anthony Wagner on Remembering and the Brain: Can Brain Scans Detect Memories?
- Laurence Steinberg, "Should the Science of Adolescent Brain Development Inform Public Policy?"
- Martha Farah on "Law and the Brain"
- Owen D. Jones - Interviewed by Alan Alda, on Law and Neuroscience
Further Links of Interest
- The BRAIN Initiative
- The Human Brain Project [Report to the European Commission]
- The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS): Science and the Law
- New Judicial Branch Program at AAAS
- Neuroscience Boot Camp, University of Pennsylvania Center for Neuroethics and Society (The Research Network on Law and Neuroscience provides need-based financial aid in the form of a limited number of Neuroscience Training Stipends for applicants who do law-related work, including law professors, judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys, and others.)
- The Dana Foundation
- Gruter Institute for Law and Behavioral Research
- International Neuroethics Society
- Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Law, Brain & Behavior
- Neuroscience and Law Center, Fordham University
- The Stanford Program in Neuroscience and Society
- Society for Evolutionary Analysis in Law
- Society for Neuroscience
- Society for Social Neuroscience
- Neuroethics & Law Blog
- Law and Biosciences Digest
- Traumatic Brain Injury Blog
- NeuroSynth
International Law and Neuroscience Resources
Neurolaw Programs
(To add to this list of programs, please email Matthew.Zumwalt@vanderbilt.edu
J.D./Ph.D. Programs
Other
- JD/MA in Bioethics and Science Policy (Duke University)
- Focus Program on Neuroscience & Law (ASU Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law)
- The Initiative on Neuroscience and the Law at Baylor College of Medicine
- Social, Cognitive, and Affective Neuroscience (SCAN) Certificate (Center for Neuroscience & Society, University of Pennsylvania)
- Free Will, Responsibility & Punishment at the Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study, University of London
- Moral Cognition, Neuroethics and Neurolaw (Macquarie University)
Student Groups
- University of Pennsylvania, Center for Neuroscience and Society, Law and Brain Student Group
- Stanford University Law School, SIGNAL: Stanford Interdisciplinary Group in Neuroscience and Law
- University of Southern California Neuroscience & Law Society
- Vanderbilt Interdepartmental Group in Law and Neuroscience
- University of California, Irvine School of Law, Neuroscience, Law, and Ethics Association
- Drexel University School of Law, NeuroLaw Student Group
Selected MacArthur Research Networks
- John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Research Network on Adolescent Development and Juvenile Justice (1997 - present).
Norms and Preferences Network (1997 - present).
Research Network on Mental Health and the Law (1988 - 2001).
Research Network on Early Experience and Brain Development (1998 - present).
Research Network on Mind-Body Interactions (1989 - 2002).
Research Network on Psychopathology & Development (1994 - 2005).