Colleen M. Berryessa (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey) and Carolina R. Caliman (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey) have published, "How Neuroscience Can Improve the Sentencing of ...

Sjors Ligthart (Utrecht University, Tilburg University) has published "Freedom of Thought: Absolute Protection of Mental Privacy and Mental Integrity?" on SSRN. Here ...

Alexandra Giannidi (University of Cambridge) has published "Making Victims Relevant: Republican Freedom and the Justification of Criminal Punishment" on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Although punishment ...

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Hank Greely discusses cognitive enhancement in Cerebrum. Here's the link and here's the editor's note: Editor’s note: In 2008, Henry T. Greely, a professor at Stanford Law School, co-authored a ...

Dr. Peter Reiner at UBC writes in to the Neuroethics & Law Blog with the following interesting observations: The enhancement debate in professional and amateur athletics has primarily focused on the ...

The Science Behind Why People Fear Refugees, Vox Judges Are Using Brain Science to Help Babies Caught in the Court System, Quartz ...

New Scientist has an interview with psychologist/primatologist Tetsuro Matsuzawa (may require subscription for full article). He describes a number of ways in which ...

A new neuroethics-related book has just come out from Springer, entitled Intervening in the Brain: Changing Psyche and Society. Here's a description: The preceding decade has witnessed tremendous ...

Last Spring, Alison Winter and I designed and co-taught a course on Human Sciences and the Law for law, graduate, and undergraduate students. Alison is an historian of science (her first book is on ...