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
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Vol.1, Issue #2 of Neuroethics
Neil Levy has delivered another fine issue of the new peer-reviewed journal Neuroethics. In conjunction with the journal, the Neuroethics & Law Blog provides a forum for discussion of the articles that appear in Neuroethics.…
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Cognition, Emotion, and Provocation Mitigation
On SSRN: "Reactive Cognition, Reactive Emotion: Toward a More Psychologically Informed Understanding of Reactive Homicide" Psychology, Public Policy & Law, ForthcomingArizona Legal Studies Discussion Paper No. 08-19 REID GRIFFITH FONTAINE, University of Arizona - Department…
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Diminishing the arm's race in enhancement (Reiner)
Carl Elliot has a piece over at Atlantic.com arguing that beta blockers should not be viewed as enhancement, but rather as leveling the playing field between individuals who suffer anxiety while performing a particular task…
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Two Book Reviews at Metapsychology
Review - NeuroethicsChallenges for the 21st Centuryby Neil LevyCambridge University Press, 2007Review by Christian Perring, Ph.D.http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4439&cn=135 Review - Defining Right and Wrong in Brain ScienceEssential Readings in Neuroethicsby Walter Glannon (Editor)Dana Press, 2007Review by Will…
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First Annual Neuroethics Society Meeting
The first annual meeting of the Neuroethics Society will be held in Washington, D.C. on November 13-14. You can register and get more information here. The current program is below. First Annual Meeting of the…
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Denno on Lethal Injection
On SSRN: "The Lethal Injection Debate: Law and Science" Fordham Urban Law Journal, Vol. 35, No. 701, 2008Fordham Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1175343 DEBORAH W. DENNO, Fordham University School of LawOn April 16,…
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Literature as Scientific Endeavor
In the Sunday New York Times Book Review, Walter Kirn reviews James Wood's new book How Fiction Works. According to Kirn, Wood views literature as a scientific endeavor to credibly capture human nature. It seems…
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Westen on the Reasonable Person Standard
The following has been posted to SSRN: "Individualizing the Reasonable Person in Criminal Law" Criminal Law and Philosophy, Vol. 2, pp. 137-62, June 2008 PETER K. WESTEN, University of Michigan Law SchoolCriminal law commonly requires…
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Negative Emotion and False Memories
The following working paper and abstract have been posted to SSRN (see also this earlier Neuroethics & Law Blog post): "How Does Negative Emotion Cause False Memories?" CHARLES J. BRAINERD, Cornell UniversityLILIAN MILNITSKY STEIN, Pontifical…
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"The Cognitive Psychology of Mens Rea"
Former Neuroethics & Law guest blogger Kevin Jon Heller (Law, University of Auckland) has posted the following paper and abstract to SSRN: "The Cognitive Psychology of Mens Rea" Actus non facit reum nisi mens sit…