News

February 12, 2019

This message brings news about:                                    

A) Recent or Forthcoming Neurolaw Publications
B) Neurolaw Media & News Clippings
C) Call for Contributions

A. Recent or Forthcoming Neurolaw Publications         

1. Corey H. Allen, Karina Vold, Gidon Felsen, Jennifer S. Blumenthal-Barby & Eyal Aharoni, Reconciling the opposing effects of neurobiological evidence on criminal sentencing judgments , 14(1) PLoS ONE e0210584 (2019).
2.  Allan McCay & Jeanette Kennett, Neuroscience and Punishment: From Theory to Practice , Neuroethics 1–12 (2019).
3.  Allan McCay & Christopher James Ryan, Issues pertaining to expert evidence and the reasoning about punishment in a neuroscience-based sentencing appeal , 62 Int'l J. L. & Psychiatry (2019).
4.  George R. Uhl, George F. Koob & Jennifer Cable, The neurobiology of addiction , Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. (Forthcoming 2019).
5.  Andrea Lollini, Brain Equality: Legal Implications of Neurodiversity in a Comparative Perspective , 51 N.Y.U. J. Int'l L. & Pol. 69 (2018).
6.  Tiffany E. Chow, Andrew J. Westphal & Jesse Rissman, Multi-voxel pattern classification differentiates personally experienced event memories from secondhand event knowledge , 176 NeuroImage 110 (2018).
7.  Armin Alimardani & Jason Chin, Neurolaw in Australia: The Use of Neuroscience in Australian Criminal Proceedings , Neuroethics (Forthcoming).
8.  Maribel Narvaez Mora, How Law and Neuroscience became a new field of study , Bioethics Update (In Press 2018).
9.  Russell Spivak, Not Guilty by Reason of CTE: The Imminent Rise of Football/s Foil as a Criminal Defense , 54(6) Crim. L. Bull. (2018).
10.  Nicholas Scurich, What do experimental simulations tell us about the effect of neuro/genetic evidence on jurors? , 5(1) J. L. Biosci. 204 (2018).
11.  J. Bradley Segal, Inherited proclivity: When should neurogenetics mitigate moral culpability for purposes of sentencing? , 3(1) J. L. Biosci. 227 (2016).

 B. Neurolaw Media & News Clippings

• Morris Hoffman, A Judge on the Injustice of America’s Extreme Prison Sentences , Wall Street J. (Feb. 7, 2019).

 C. Call for Contributions

•  Neurolaw: The Call for Adjusting Theory Based on Scientific Results, is an open-access special issue of the journal Frontiers in Psychology. Ten authors from the USA, the Netherlands, Spain, Argentina, Mexico, and Italy have confirmed their contributions to the volume, and the Call for Papers is still open until August 26th.

 

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