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June 3, 2025
This message brings news about:
- Recent Neurolaw Publications
- Research Position Opening at Mind-Blind Morality
A. Recent Neurolaw Publications
- Livia O’Connor, Minimum Age of Criminal Responsibility: A Uniform Legal Age of Culpability That Matches Psychological Findings, 48 Suffolk Transnat’l L. Rev. 66 (2025).
- Ashlyn Anderson-Keelin, “I Was Young and Dumb”: Why Age Should Be Considered in the Military Discharge Upgrade Process, 12 Tex. A&M L. Rev. 431 (2025).
- Erin Weaver, Trauma-Informed Not Trauma-Inducing: An Interdisciplinary Argument for the Reform of Civil Medical Debt Court Cases, 52 S.U. L. Rev. 1 (2024).
B. Research Position Opening at Mind-Blind Morality
The Mind-Blind Morality team is seeking a research-oriented graduate student in law (LLM, JD, or PhD) who is eager to publish cutting-edge scholarship at the intersection of legal theory and moral psychology. You will join a team that is funded by a grant from the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research and comprises a diverse group of researchers based at UCLA in the U.S. and Nottingham Trent University in the U.K. The team is looking for a collaborator who is curious about how mental state liability in law works (mens rea), motivated to gain hands-on research experience, and comfortable working alongside an interdisciplinary team of social scientists, legal scholars, and research assistants. In return, you will receive full acknowledgment for your intellectual contributions through co-author credit and gain access to an expanded professional network spanning law, psychology, and AI research. Primary responsibilities include: Resolving classification disputes when research assistants disagree on mental state liability of statutes, producing liability classification benchmarks of legal materials to ensure validity and reliability, reviewing specific case and extracting liability requirements for analysis, and advising on legal aspects of study design and methodological development. Interested parties should contact Christopher Kovel at: christopher.kovel2024@my.ntu.ac.uk
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