In November 2007, the New York Times published an op-ed entitled, "This is Your Brain on Politics," by Marco Iacoboni et al. Soon thereafter, the Neuroethics & Law Blog featured a guest post by Martha ...

Wired news posted this piece of sexy neurotechnology news last week: Researchers at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, are exploring the possibility of a biometric security device that will use a ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Sjors Ligthart (Tilburg University and postdoc at Utrecht University) and Christoph Bublitz (University of Hamburg) have submitted the following guest post: Are New Human Rights Needed for ...

Lyria Bennett Moses (University of New South Wales (UNSW) - Faculty of Law) has published "Artificial Intelligence in the Courts, Legal Academia and Legal Practice" on SSRN. Here is the abstract: ...

Brian Bix (University of Minnesota Law School) has published, "Metaphysical Questions About Law: A Practice-Based Approach" on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In this brief paper, prepared for an IVR ...

Leo Katz (University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School) and Alvaro Sandroni (University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics, Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management) have published ...

Aya Gruber (University of Colorado Law School) has published "Sex Exceptionalism in Criminal Law" on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Sex crimes are the worst crimes. People widely believe that sexual ...

Gregory Antill (Columbia Law School) has published, "Rights, Reasons, and Culpability in Tort Law and Criminal Law" on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This article considers how a mens rea regime growing ...