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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
To access the LawNeuro.org YouTube channel, visit this link featuring all panel videos from the Research Network's outreach events.
full link: https://www.youtube.com/user/LawNeuroOrg
For further interest, here are additional available videos and audio files:
Owen D. Jones - Interviewed by Alan Alda, on Law and Neuroscience
Free webinar: A Student's Guide to Law and Neuroscience
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?"
Owen Jones on The value of studying the intersection of law and neuroscience
Arizona State University: Adolescent Brains and Juvenile Justice
The Second Raymond & Beverly Sackler U.S.A.-U.K. Scientific Forum: Neuroscience & the Law
Society for Neuroscience (Kaavli Foundation)
University of Pennsylvania Center for Neuroscience & Society: Neuroethics Open Educational Resource
Read Montague: What we're learning from 5,000 brains (TED Talk)
Sarah-Jayne Blakemore: The mysterious workings of the adolescent brain (TED Talk)
The Truth About Lies: Neuroscience, Law, and Ethics of Lie Detection Technologies Symposium
My Brain Made Me Do It, Future Tense
Steve Pinker and Josh Buckholtz discuss the neuroscience of violence on PBS special “After Newtown”
Criminal Minds: Born or Made? -- NOVA on PBS
World Science Festival: Brains on Trial
Neuroscience Methods Update: Brain Imaging, Geoffrey Aguirre, MD, PhD
Panel 1:
Professor Paul Davies "Cultural Evolution, Norm Psychology, and Punishment," Professor Owen Jones speculates what developments we might see in the way courts and the legal system use neuroscientific research and evidence to inform their work. Professor Emily Murphy "Collective Cognitive Capital."
- Professor Paul Davies: 10:51
- Professor Owen Jones: 52:50
- Professor Emily Murphy: 1:33:35
Panel 2:
Professor Peter Alces and Robert Sapolsky "Nohwere,"
Professor Debbie Denno presents research on the decline of the insanity defense in criminal law and what this means for the use of neurological evidence in criminal cases in the future.
Professor Kent Kiehl presents research on the use of brain imaging to predict future criminal behavior and whether and how that information should be used in the criminal justice system.
- Professors Peter Alces and Robert Sapolsky: 4:03
- Professor Debbie Denno: 44:50
- Professor Kent Kiehl: 1:21:04
Panel 3:
Professor Elizabeth Shaw presents research arguing that criminal sentencing and prison conditions fail to achieve the deterrent and rehabilitative goals the criminal justice system espouses and are in need of large scale reform.
Professor Farah Focquaert "The Future of Criminal Law and Punishment,"
Professor Bruce Waller "Cultural Context, Neuroscience, and Criminal Justice."
- Professor Elizabeth Shaw: 3:00
- Professor Farah Focquaert: 36:42
- Professor Bruce Waller: 1:19:23
Panel 4:
Professor David Faigman presents research arguing that different burdens of proof should be required when assessing developmental maturity of criminal defendants at different ages, in part to ensure that young criminal defendants are not punished as harshly as a fully mentally developed adult might be if such punishment is not appropriate in light of that particular defendant's mental development.
Dr. John Callender presents research on brain disorders and criminal behavior, demonstrating that neuroscientific forces outside of a criminal defendant's control are often at play in the decision-making process that led to the criminal behavior.
Professor Burkhard Schafer presents research exploring the possibilities of using video recording devices to store memories for people whose memories are impaired and corresponding questions of digital privacy rights.
- Professor David Faigman: 2:36
- Dr. John Callender: 42:43
- Professor Burkhard Schafer: 1:15:33