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

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 ...

This post is adapted from my new draft article, The Experiential Future of the Law. Comments on the article are welcome at akolber “at” sandiego.edu: The reason that the measurement of distress seems ...

Yesterday, I attended a panel discussion in the federal courthouse at 500 Pearl St. to kickoff the MacArthur Foundation's $10M grant to support research at the intersection of law and neuroscience.

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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 ...

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

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

On Amir (Marketing, Rady School-UCSD) has written an article for Scientific American. The article summarizes research on how we deplete cognitive resources when we make choices and how this affects ...

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 ...