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MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Law and Neuroscience

MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Law and Neuroscience

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December 19, 2013

This message brings news about:
A) Recent or Forthcoming Neurolaw Publications
B) Neurolaw Media & News Clippings
C) Conferences & Speaker Series

A.  Recent or Forthcoming Neurolaw Publications  

    1. Research Network Knowledge Brief: Network Overview

The MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Law and Neuroscience has recently released a brief Network Overview , which highlights the research of the Network in the areas of mental states, adolescent development, and evidence.  

Network Overview is available here: /networkoverview.pdf 

    1. Gideon Yaffe, Neurologic Disorder and Criminal Responsibility, Handbook of Clinical Neurology,       Vol. 118 (3rd series) Ethical and Legal Issues in Neurology 345 (J.L. Bernat & R. Beresford, Eds, Elsevier, 2013). 
    2. Ilina Singh, Walter P. Sinnott-Armstrong, and Julian Savulecu (eds). Bioprediction, Biomarkers, and Bad Behavior: Scientific, Legal, and Ethical Challenges , Oxford University Press (2013). 
    3. Matthias Mahlmann, Neuroscience and the Law: Concerns, Questions and Promises, Bulletin Vereinigung der Schweizerischen Hochschuldozierenden 44 (2011). 
    4. Sabine Müller, Henrik Walter, & Markus Christen, When Benefitting a Patient Increases the Risk for Harm for Third Persons - The Case of Treating Pedophilic Parkinsonian Patients with Deep Brain Stimulation , Int J Law Psychiatry (2013). 
    5. James E. Ryan , Poverty as Disability and the Future of Special Education Law , 101 Geo. L.J.       1455 (2013). 
    6. Sarah Becker, A Glimpse into the Future? The Current, Potential, and Appropriate Role of Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) Evidence as a Predictor of Dangerousness in the American Criminal Sentencing Context , University of Toronto Faculty of Law, Master of Laws Thesis (2013).                  
    7. Ullrich Wagner, Karim N’Diaye, Thomas Ethofer, Patrik Vuilleumier, Guilt-Specific Processing in the Prefrontal Cortex , 21 Cerebral Cortex 2461 (2011).  

B.  Neurolaw Media & News Clippings

    1. “University of Pennsylvania offers a boot camp on brain science” – Kevin Davis recentlypublished an article in the American Bar Association Journal about the University of Pennsylvania Neuroscience Boot Camp.  To read the piece, visit: http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/penn_state_offers_a_boot_camp_on_brain_science/
    2. “Neuroscience Is Getting Its Day in Court, Whether It’s Ready or Not” – Greg Miller recently published an article on Wired about the use of brain scanning technology in court.  To read the piece, visit: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/12/brain-science-law/       
    3. “Did Brain Scans Just Save a Convicted Murderer From the Death Penalty?” – Greg Miller also recently published a piece on Wired about the use of brain scanning evidence and the sentencing of John McCluskey.  To read the article, visit: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/12/murder-law-brain/      

C.  Conferences & Speaker Series  

    1. Law and Neuroscience:  Revising the Legal Standard for Insanity:  The European University Institute and the Centre for Judicial Cooperation are co-sponsoring Law and Neuroscience:  Revising the Legal Standard for Insanity  on June 6 – 7, 2014 at Sala Europa, Villa Schifanoia.  The       conference program will be announced soon.  For more information, please click here.  

 

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Owen D. Jones
New York Alumni Chancellor's Chair in Law
Professor of Biological Sciences 
Director, MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Law and Neuroscience

Vanderbilt University
131  21st Avenue, South
Nashville, TN 37203-1181

 website:                                 http://law.vanderbilt.edu/jones
publications:                            click here

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