News
November 08, 2017
This message brings news about:
A) Recent or Forthcoming Neurolaw Publications
B) Neurolaw Media & News Clippings
C) Conferences & Speaker Series
D) Other Developments
A. Recent or Forthcoming Neurolaw Publications
- Morris Hoffman, Drug Courts and the Myth of the Addict's Diseased Brain, 29 Fed. Sentencing Rptr. 207 (2017).
- Francis X. Shen, Emily Twedell, Caitlin Opperman, Jordan Dean Scott Krieg, Mikaela Brandt-Fontaine, Joshua Preston, Jaleh McTeigue, Alina Yasis, & Morgan Carlson, The Limited Effect of Electroencephalography Memory Reocgnition Evidence on Assessments of Defendant Credibility , J.L. & Biosciences (2017).
- Laurence Steinberg, Adolescent Brain Science and Juvenile Justice Policymaking Psychology , Pub. Pol'y, & L. (2017).
- Owen D. Jones & Morris Hoffman, Lies, Brains and Courtrooms , 85 U.S. L. Week 904 (2017).
- Francis X. Shen, Minority Mens Rea: Racial Bias and Criminal Mental States , 68 Hastings L.J. 1007 (2017).
- Karen D. Davis, Herta Flor, Henry T. Greely, Gian Domenico Iannetti, Sean Mackey, Markus Ploner, Amanda Pustilnik, Irene Tracey, Rolf-Detlef Treede, & Tor D. Wager, Brain Imaging Tests for Chronic Pain: Medical, Legal and Ethical Issues and Recommendations , 13 Nature Rev. Neurology 624 (2017).
- Meredith Cusick, Mens Rea and Methamphetamine: High Time for a Modern Doctrine Acknowledging the Neuroscience of Addiction , 85 Fordham L. Rev. 2417 (2017).
- Victor Geneves & Laura Pignatel, Etat de l'art - Droit et neurosciences , Recherche Realisee Avec Le Soutien de la Mission Droit et Justice, Paris, ref. 16.07 (2016).
- Victor Geneves, Neurosciences et societe - Quelle regulation pour quel phenomene? 21 Lex electronica 131 (2016).
- Deborah W. Denno, Andrea Yates: A Continuing Story about Insanity , in The Insanity Defense (Mark D. White, ed. 2017).
- Laura Cabrera, Can Brain Scans Spot Criminal Intent? Bioethics in the News (2017).
- Jenny E. Carroll, The Problem with Inference for Juvenile Defendants , 45 Florida State Univ. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2017).
- Jesper Ryberg, Neuroethics and Brain Privacy: Setting the Stage , 23 Res Publica 153 (2017).
- Jesper Ryberg, Neuroscience, Mind Reading and Mental Privacy , 23 Res Publica 197 (2017).
- Marc Jonathan Blitz, Lie Detection, Mind Reading, and Brain Reading in Searching Minds by Scanning Brains (2017).
- Marc Jonathan Blitz, The Fourth (and First) Amendment: Searches with, and Scrutiny of, Neuroimaging in Searching Minds by Scanning Brains (2017).
- Phillipp Kellmeyer, Ethical and Legal Implications of the Methodological Crisis in Neuroimaging , Cambridge Q. Healthcare Ethics (2017).
- Hannah L. Bedard, The Potential for Bioprediction in Criminal Law , 18 Colum. Sci. & Tech. L. Rev. 268 (2017).
- Franco Posa & Gabriele A. Losa, Neurosciences in Criminology , 2 Fractal Geometry & Nonlinear Anal. In Med. & Biology 1 (2016).
- Maria Isabel Gonzalez-Tapia, Ingrid Obsuth, & Rachel Heeds, A New Legal Treatment for Psychopaths? Perplexities for Legal Thinkers , International J.L. & Psychiatry (2017).
- Paul S. Davies & Peter A. Alces, Neuroscience Changes More Than You Can Think , U. Ill. J.L. Tech. & Pol'y 141 (2017).
- Casey LaDuke, David DeMatteo, Kirk Heilbrun, Jennifer Gallo, & Thomas Swirsky-Sacchetti, The Neuropsychological Assessment of Justice-Involved Men: Descriptive Analysis, Preliminary Data, and a Case for Group-Specific Norms , Arch Clin Neuropsychology 1 (2017).
- Gerben Meynen, Brain-Based Mind Reading in Forensic Psychiatry: Exploring Possibilities and Perils , J.L. & Biosciences (2017).
- Debra Austin, Food for Thought: The Neuroscience of Nutrition to Fuel Cognitive Performance , 95 Or. L. Rev. 425 (2017).
- Lucy A. Jewel, Neurorhetoric, Race, and the Law: Toxic Neural Pathways and Healing Alternatives , 76 Md. L. Rev. 663 (2017).
- Megan Osborn, Healing the Invisible: How the VA Fails to Adequately Compensate Veterans for Mild Traumatic Brain Injury , 26 Fed. Circuit B.J. 379 (2017).
- Stephanie Plamondon Bair, Dynamic Rationality , Ohio State L.J. (forthcoming 2017).
- Shelby Hunter, How Disorder Onset Controllability Moderates the Impact of Biological Arguments on Judgments of Criminal Responsibility , Arizona St. Univ. (2017).
- Havey L. Fiser & Patrick D. Hopkins, Getting Inside the Employee's Head: Neuroscience, Negligent Employment Liability, and the Push and Pull for New Technology , Boston Univ. J. Sci. & Tech. L. 1 (2017).
- Leila Glass, Lara Moody, Jordan Grafman, & Frank Krueger, Neural Signatures of Third-Party Punishment: Evidence from Penetrating Traumatic Brain Injury , 11 Soc. Cognitive Affective Neuroscience 253 (2016).
- M. Gregg Bloche, Toward a Science of Torture? Texas L. Rev. (forthcoming 2017).
- Matthias Mahlmann, Mind and Rights: Neuroscience, Philosophy and the Foundations of Legal Justice in Law, Reason and Emotion (M. Sellers, ed., 2017).
- Sabine Muller, Respect for Autonomy in Light of Neuropsychiatry , 31 Bioethics 360 (2017).
- Eric Racine, Veljko Dubljević, Vernard Baertschi, Ralf J. Jox, Julia F. Christensen, Michele Farisco, Fabrice Jotterand, Guy Kahane, & Sabine Muller, Can Neuroscience Contribute to Practical Ethics? A Critical Review and Discussion of the Methodological and Translational Challenges of the Neuroscience of Ethics , 31 Bioethics 328 (2017).
- Patrick Barnes, Child Abuse - Nonaccidental Injury (NAI) and Abusive Head Trauma (AHT) - Medical Imaging: Issues and Controversies in the Era of Evidence-Based Medicine , 50 U. Mich. J.L. Reform 679 (2017).
- Karen Oehme, Anthony J. Ferraro, Nat Stern, Lisa S. Panisch, & Mallory Lucier-Greer, Trauma-Informed Co-Parenting: How a Shift in Compulsory Divorce Education to Reflect New Brain Development Research Can Promote Both Parents' and Children's Best Interests , 39 U. Haw. L. Rev. 37 (2016).
- Elisabetta Sirgiovanni, Criminal Heredity: The Influence of Cesare Lombroso's Concept of the Born Criminal on Contemporary Neurogenetics and its Forensic Applications , 29 J. History Med. Bioethics (2017).
- Louis J. Sirico, Jr., The Trial Lawyer and the Reptilian Brain: A Critique , 65 Clev. St. L. Rev. 411 (2017).
- Jack E. Hubbard & Samuel D. Hodge, Jr., A Whole Lot of Shakin' Going on: Movement Disorders Caused by Brain Trauma , 65 Clev. St. L. Rev. 287 (2017).
- Thomas Grisso & Antoinette Kavanaugh, Prospects for Developmental Evidence in Juvenile Sentencing Based on Miller v. Alabama, 22 Psychol., Pub. Pol'y, & L. 235 (2016).
- Eric Racine & John Aspler, Debates About Neuroethics: Perspectives on Its Development, Focus, and Future (Eric Racine & John Aspler, eds., 2017).
- Polaris Koi, Susanne Uusitalo, & Jarno Tuominen, Self-Control in Responsibility Enhancement and Criminal Rehabilitation , Crim. L. & Phil. (2017).
- Paolo Sommaggio, Neuro-Civilization: A New Form of Social Enhancement (2017).
- Colleen M. Berryessa, Jury-Eligible Public Attitudes Toward Biological Risk Factors for the Development of Criminal Behavior and Implications for Capital Sentencing , 44 Crim. Just. & Behav. (2017).
- Valerie Gray Hardcastle, My Brain Made Me Do It? Neuroscience and Criminal Responsibility in The Routledge Handbook of Neuroethics (L. Syd M. Johnson & Karen S. Rommelfanger, eds., 2017).
- Scott O. Lilienfeld, Elizabeth Aslinger, Julia Marshall, & Sally Satel, Neurohype: A Field Guide to Exaggerated Brain-Based Claims in The Routledge Handbook of Neuroethics (L. Syd M. Johnson & Karen S. Rommelfanger, eds., 2017).
- Ellie A. Page, The Criminal Mind: Neuroscientific Evidence as a Mitigating Factor in Sentencing in New South Wales Australia , 26 Pac. Rim L. & Pol'y 659 (2017).
- Matthew D. Moyer, Free Will's Enormous Cost: Why Retribution, Grounded in Free Will, is an Invalid and Impractical Penal Goal , 92 Notre Dame L. Rev. 2231 (2017).
- Michael L. Perlin & Alison J. Lynch, ‘My Brain Is So Wired': Neuroimaging's Role in Competency Cases Involving Persons with Mental Disabilities (2017).
- Harold Anthony Lloyd, Cognitive Emotion and the Law , 41 Law & Psychol. Rev. 53 (2016).
- Shaneé Brown, Impunity for the Incorrigible Psychopathy?: Neurobiological Abnormalities Do Not Exempt Psychopaths from Criminal Responsibility , 7 Charlotte L. Rev. 239 (2016).
- Sebastian Holmen, Direct Brain Interventions, Changing Values and the Argument from Objectification - a Reply to Elizabeth Shaw , Neuroethics 1 (2017).
- Jeremy Isard, Under the Cloak of Brain Science: Risk Assessments, Parole, and the Powerful Guise of Objectivity , 105 Calif. L. Rev. 1223 (2017).
B. Neurolaw Media & News Clippings
1. NYT Coverage of Brain Injury Quotes Owen Jones: The New York Times recently ran a piece titled “Yes, Aaron Hernandez Suffered Brain Injury. But That May Not Explain His Violence,” which quotes Research Network Director Owen Jones. To read the piece, click here .
C. Conferences & Speaker Series
1. Laurence Steinberg Talk at UPenn: Research Network Member Laurence Steinberg recently gave a talk at the University of Pennsylvania Center for Neuroscience & Society titled “Adolescent Brain Science and Legal Policy in Retrospect and Prospect.” To read more, click here .
D. Other Developments
1. Broken Brains on Trial: An Interview with Kevin Davis: Kevin Davis recently gave an interview on his book The Brain Defense: Murder in Manhattan and the Dawn of Neuroscience in America's Courtrooms. To read the full interview, click here .
2. “National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges Resolves to Help Modernize Approach to Juvenile Probation With Better Understanding of Adolescent Brain Development:” In a recent development , the NCJFCJ has expressed its support of and commitment to “the development of robust education and training of juvenile probation staff on adolescent brain development; its impact on juvenile justice policy, practice and the law; and its relationship to juvenile probation case planning, conditions of probation, supervision, monitoring and enforcement and data collection.” To read move, click here .
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