Neuroethics and Law Blog


The Neuroethics and Law Blog is an "interdisciplinary forum for legal and ethical issues related to the brain and cognition."

Author: Author Adam Kolber is a professor at the San Diego School of Law who teaches bioethics, criminal law and "law and the brain."

Blawg Related Categories: Criminal Justice • Law Professors • Evidence • University of San Diego • Law Professor

Recent Posts from Neuroethics and Law Blog


  • CFP: Ethical Implications of DBS

    Our partner journal, Neuroethics, has issued the following call for papers. Please direct inquiries to the issue's guest editor: Call for Papers ETHICAL IMPLICATIONS OF DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION SPECIAL ISSUE OF SPRINGER’S JOURNAL NEUROETHICS Guest…

  • New Brain-Related SSRN Abstracting Journals

    SSRN recently distributed the following information about new brain-related abstracting journals: LAW, BRAIN & BEHAVIOR JOURNALS Law is concerned with organizing and constraining human behavior. As a result, some model of human behavior, implicit or…

  • PEBS News Roundup from JHU Guest Blogger

    Last Edition's Most Popular Article Clever fools: Why a high IQ doesn't mean you're smart New Scientist November 2 2009 In the Academic Literature: Human-specific transcriptional regulation of CNS development genes by FOXP2 Nature 2009:462:213-217…

  • Suchy-Dicey on "It Takes Two: Ethical Dualism in the Vegetative State"

    Check out "It Takes Two: Ethical Dualism in the Vegetative State" by Carolyn Suchy-Dicey in the most recent issue of Neuroethics. I'm pleased to report that Carolyn will be guest blogging here in January: Abstract:…

  • Shriver on "Knocking Out Pain in Livestock"

    Adam Shriver will be guest blogging here in December. In the meantime, check out his article (which has been discussed in popular media all over the place) in the newest issue of Neuroethics: Knocking Out…

  • PEBS News Roundup from Johns Hopkins

    Last Edition's Most Popular Article Prescribing Cognitive Enhancers: A Primer Bioethics Forum October 28 2009 In the Academic Literature: The pathways of interoceptive awareness Nature Neuroscience November 1 2009 Auditory plasticity and speech motor learning…

  • PEBS Neuroethics Roundup from Johns Hopkins

    Last Edition's Most Popular Article Just what does make me 'me'? BBC News October 28 2009 In the Academic Literature: Using Neural Measures of Economic Value to Solve the Public Goods Free-Rider Problem Science 2009:326(5952)…

  • Behavioral Genetics and Mitigated Sentence in Italy

    From Nature News: An Italian court has cut the sentence given to a convicted murderer by a year because he has genes linked to violent behaviour — the first time that behavioural genetics has affected…

  • Experts, Consent, and Antipsychotic Medications in Neuroimaging Cases

    Recently posted to SSRN: "'And I Can See Through Your Brain': Access to Experts, Competency to Consent, and the Impact of Antipsychotic Medications in Neuroimaging Cases in the Criminal Trial Process" Stanford Technology Law Review,…

  • "Some Realism About Punishment Naturalism"

    An interesting and sure-to-be controversial paper that was recently posted to SSRN: "Some Realism About Punishment Naturalism" University of Chicago Law Review, Vol. 77, 2010 DONALD BRAMAN, Cultural Cognition Project, George Washington University - Law…