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- 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
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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
The Research Network on Law and Neuroscience, supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, addresses a focused set of closely-related problems at the intersection of neuroscience and criminal justice. These include: (1) investigating law-relevant mental states of, and decision-making processes in, defendants, witnesses, jurors, and judges; (2) investigating in adolescents the relationship between brain development and cognitive capacities; and (3) assessing how best to draw inferences about individuals from group-based neuroscientific data.
The Research Network is an interdisciplinary collaborative initiative with two main goals: (1) to explore ways that neuroscientific insights can aid pursuit of a more fair, rational, and just criminal justice system; and (2) to help the legal system avoid misuse of neuroscientific evidence in criminal law contexts.
The MacArthur Foundation laid the cornerstones for the Network by drawing together several dozen of the nation's top researchers beginning in 2007 to conduct a coordinated and comprehensive investigation of basic issues at the intersection of law and neuroscience, funded by a four-year grant. In 2011, the new MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Law and Neuroscience began to build on those cornerstones with an interconnected program of research with three foci: Mental States, Development, and Evidence.