Law & Neuroscience Works in Progress Workshop

2023-24 Workshop Schedule

September 19, 2023
  • Susan D. Carle, Professor of Law, American University Washington College of Law
  • Tara L. White, Assistant Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences & Director of the Laboratory of Affective Neuroscience, Brown University
  • Review Essay: Free Agents vs. Determined: Neuroscience and the Law of Personal Responsibility (discussing soon forthcoming books with these two titles by Kevin J. Mitchell and Robert M. Sapolsky, respectively)
October 17, 2023
  • José Carlos Porciúncula, Professor of Criminal Law, Brazilian Institute of Public Law (IDP) and Catholic University of Colombia
  • Technologies of the Extended Mind and the Nemo Tenetur Principle
November 28, 2023
  • Craig McFarland, Harvard College
  • Resilient or Rich? Investigating the Impact of Socioeconomic Status on Trauma Processing and Neural Functioning from the AURORA Study
December 12, 2023
January 16, 2024
  • John B. Meixner, Jr., Assistant Professor of Law, University of Georgia School of Law
  • Shocking Sentences
February 20, 2024
  • David Kamper, PhD Student in Cognitive Neuroscience and Computational Cognitive Science, UCLA
March 19, 2024
  • Oliver Rollins, Assistant Professor, Department of American Ethnic Studies, University of Washington
April 16, 2024
  • Jenny Carroll, Wiggins, Childs, Quinn & Pantazis Professor of Law, University of Alabama Law School
May 21, 2024
  • Marc J. Blitz, Alan Joseph Bennett Professor of Law, Oklahoma City University School of Law

2022-23 Workshop Schedule

September 20, 2022
  • Leslie Scott, National Sentencing Resource Counsel
  • Substance Use Disorder’s (SUD) Impact on Criminal Decision-Making and Role in Federal Sentencing Jurisprudence: Arguing for Culpability-Based SUD Mitigation
October 18, 2022
  • Roland Nadler, Peter A. Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia
  • Problematizing the Promise of Forensic Pain Neuroimaging
November 15, 2022
  • Emily Murphy, UC Hastings College of Law
  • Collective Cognitive Capital
January 17, 2023
  • Nicole Chiappone, Assistant State Attorney, Office of the State Attorney, 17th Judicial Circuit, Florida
  • Mass Shootings and Death Penalty Mitigation: Keeping Inappropriate Neuroimaging Evidence out of the Courtroom
Feb 21, 2023
  • Deborah W. Denno, Arthur A. McGivney Professor of Law & Founding Director, Neuroscience and Law Center, Fordham University School of Law
  • The Criminal Justice System’s First Peak Inside a Defendant’s Living Brain
March 21, 2023
  • Jane Campbell Moriarty, Associate Dean for Faculty Scholarship, the Carol Los Mansmann Chair in Faculty Scholarship and Professor of Law at the Thomas R. Kline School of Law of Duquesne University
  • Off-Label Neuroimaging Evidence
April 18, 2023
  • Teneille Brown, Professor, College Of Law, University of Utah
  • Minding Accidents
May 16, 2023
  • José Ángel Marinaro, National University of La Matanza, San Justo, Argentina
  • Neurorights: novelty or reconceptualization. Neurorights Initiative: why so much rush?
June 20, 2023
  • Diego Alejandro Borbón Rodríguez, Researcher and Coordinator of the NeuroRights Research Group of the Latin American Observatory of Human Rights and Enterprises, Externado University of Colombia 
  • The five postulates of neuroabolitionism from a humanist approach to incompatibilism