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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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…
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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)…
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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…
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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,…
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"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…
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"The Disutility of Injustice"
Recently posted to SSRN: "The Disutility of Injustice" U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 09-24 PAUL H. ROBINSON, University of Pennsylvania Law School GEOFFREY P. GOODWIN, Dept. of Psychology, University of…
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"The MAOA Gene Predicts Credit Card Debt"
Recently posted to SSRN: "The MAOA Gene Predicts Credit Card Debt" JAN-EMMANUEL DE NEVE, London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE), Harvard Business School JAMES H. FOWLER, University of California, San Diego - Department…
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George W. Bush's Psyche
Here's an out-of-the-ordinary piece recently posted to SSRN: "Bush's Brain (No, Not Karl Rove): How Bush’s Psyche Shaped His Decision-Making", in R. Maranto, JUDGING BUSH, Stanford University Press, 2009 ROBERT MARANTO, University of Arkansas at…
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PEBS Neuroethics Roundup from Johns Hopkins
Last Edition's Most Popular Article Is My Mind Mine? How neuroimaging will affect personal freedom Forbes October 9 2009 In the Academic Literature: The Speaking Brain Science 2009:326(5951):372-373 Modalities, Modes, and Models in Functional Neuroimaging…
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Mind-Reading: The Neuroethics Smackdown
Greg Miller's enjoyable, lighthearted summary of the "neuroethics smackdown" at the SfN meeting is here.