1.
Ideology, Motivated Reasoning, and Cognitive Reflection: An Experimental Study
Judgment and Decision Making, 8, 407-24 (2013), Cultural Cognition Lab Working Paper No. 107, Yale Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 272
Number of pages: 61
Posted: 30 Nov 2012
Last Revised: 30 Jul 2013
Accepted Paper Series
Yale University - Law School
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8,931
2.
The Neural Theory of Metaphor
Number of pages: 33
Posted: 23 Jul 2009
Working Paper Series
University of California, Berkeley
Downloads
4,735
3.
Brain Imaging for Legal Thinkers: A Guide for the Perplexed
Stanford Technology Law Review, Vol. 5, 2009, Vanderbilt Public Law Research Paper No. 10-09
Number of pages: 49
Posted: 04 Mar 2010
Accepted Paper Series
Vanderbilt University - Law School & Dept. of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Neuroscience Program, Vanderbilt University - Department of Psychology and Vanderbilt University - Department of Psychology
Center for Integrative and Cognitive Neuroscience
Center for Integrative and Cognitive Neuroscience
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3,275
4.
What Causes Suboptimal Financial Behaviour? An Exploration of Financial Literacy, Social Influences and Behavioural Economics
U of Melbourne Legal Studies Research Paper No. 540
Number of pages: 244
Posted: 28 Mar 2011
Last Revised: 28 May 2011
Working Paper Series
Central Queensland University (CQUniversity) - Business & Law and Melbourne Law School - University of Melbourne
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2,913
5.
Philosophical Foundations of Law and Neuroscience
University of Illinois Law Review, 2010, U of Alabama Public Law Research Paper No. 1338763
Number of pages: 40
Posted: 06 Feb 2009
Last Revised: 26 Dec 2013
Working Paper Series
Georgetown University Law Center and Rutgers University School of Law, Camden
Downloads
2,323
6.
Law and Neuroscience
LAW AND NEUROSCIENCE, (Aspen 2014, Forthcoming), Vanderbilt Public Law Research Paper 14-12, Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper No. 14-19
Number of pages: 41
Posted: 19 Mar 2014
Last Revised: 27 May 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Vanderbilt University - Law School & Dept. of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University - Department of Psychology and University of Minnesota Law School
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2,239
7.
Law and Neuroscience in the United States
INTERNATIONAL NEUROLAW: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS, p. 349, T.M. Spranger, ed., Springer-Verlag, 2012, Vanderbilt Public Law Research Paper No. 1-5
Number of pages: 32
Posted: 13 Feb 2012
Last Revised: 04 Aug 2015
Accepted Paper Series
Vanderbilt University - Law School & Dept. of Biological Sciences and University of Minnesota Law School
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2,219
8.
Killing Them Softly: Neuroscience Reveals How Brain Cells Die from Law School Stress and How Neural Self-Hacking Can Optimize Cognitive Performance
59 LOY. L. REV. 791 (2013), U Denver Legal Studies Research Paper No. 13-12
Number of pages: 70
Posted: 03 Mar 2013
Last Revised: 26 Nov 2014
Accepted Paper Series
University of Denver Sturm College of Law
Downloads
2,209
9.
How Should Justice Policy Treat Young Offenders?
MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Law and Neuroscience, February 2017, Vanderbilt Law Research Paper No. 17-9, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 17-17, Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 14-545
Number of pages: 5
Posted: 28 Feb 2017
Last Revised: 26 Apr 2017
Accepted Paper Series
Yale University - Department of Psychology, University of Virginia School of Law, US Court of Appeals - Fourth Circuit, UC Hastings Law, Second Judicial District Court Judge, State of Colorado, Vanderbilt University - Law School & Dept. of Biological Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University - Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, University of Pennsylvania Law School, Washington University in St. Louis - Department of Neurology, Yale University - Department of Psychology, Columbia University - Law School, Temple University - Department of Psychology, New York University School of Law and Stanford University - Department of Psychology
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1,509
10.
Brain Scans as Evidence: Truths, Proofs, Lies, and Lessons
Mercer Law Review, Vol. 62, p. 861, 2011, Vanderbilt Public Law Research Paper No. 11-2
Number of pages: 23
Posted: 24 Feb 2011
Last Revised: 24 Aug 2011
Accepted Paper Series
University of Minnesota Law School and Vanderbilt University - Law School & Dept. of Biological Sciences
Downloads
1,486
11.
Risk Assessment in Criminal Sentencing
Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, Forthcoming, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper, No. 53
Number of pages: 57
Posted: 17 Sep 2015
Accepted Paper Series
University of Virginia School of Law and University of California, Berkeley
There are 2 versions of this paper
Risk Assessment in Criminal Sentencing
Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, Forthcoming, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper, No. 53
Number of pages: 57
Posted: 17 Sep 2015
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1,401
Risk Assessment in Criminal Sentencing
Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, Vol. 12, pp. 489-513, 2016
Posted: 30 Mar 2016
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1,401
12.
Seeing Through Colorblindness: Implicit Bias and the Law
UCLA Law Review, Vol. 58, p. 465, 2010, UCLA School of Law Research Paper No. 10-22
Number of pages: 56
Posted: 01 Jul 2010
Last Revised: 05 Jan 2011
Accepted Paper Series
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law and Bard College Program in Psychology
Downloads
1,372
13.
Human Rights Racism
Harvard Human Rights Journal, Vol. 32, 2019, U of Colorado Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 19-24
Number of pages: 58
Posted: 21 Jul 2019
Last Revised: 09 Jun 2020
Accepted Paper Series
UCLA
Downloads
1,341
14.
Why Behavioral Economics Isn't Better, and How it Could Be
in: Research Handbook on Behavioral Law and Economics (J.C. Teitelbaum & K. Zeiler eds, 2019)
Number of pages: 41
Posted: 20 Jul 2019
Last Revised: 18 Jun 2020
Accepted Paper Series
Vanderbilt University - Law School & Dept. of Biological Sciences
Downloads
1,270
15.
Neuroethics and Criminal Responsibility – A Criminal Law Comment on Neil Levy's Consciousness and Moral Responsibility
Anatomy of Crime - Journal of Law and Crime Sciences, 3, 2016, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 6
Posted: 14 Jun 2016
Accepted Paper Series
University of Lisbon - School of Law
Downloads
1,231
16.
The False Promise of Adolescent Brain Science in Juvenile Justice
Notre Dame Law Review, Vol. 85, p. 89, 2010, Gruter Institute Squaw Valley Conference 2009: Law, Behavior & the Brain
Number of pages: 88
Posted: 15 May 2009
Last Revised: 08 Dec 2009
Accepted Paper Series
Vanderbilt University - Law School
Downloads
1,191
17.
A Biological Basis of Rights
Hofstra University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 09-17
Number of pages: 73
Posted: 30 Jul 2009
Last Revised: 31 Mar 2014
Working Paper Series
Independent
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1,178
18.
Do Violent Video Games Harm Children? Comparing the Scientific Amicus Curiae 'Experts' in Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association
Northwestern University Law Review Colloquy, Vol. 106, p. 1, 2011
Number of pages: 12
Posted: 09 Feb 2020
Accepted Paper Series
Sacks Law Firm, Ohio State University (OSU) - School of Journalism and Communication and Iowa State University - Department of Psychology
Downloads
1,162
19.
Postmodern Legal Thought and Cognitive Science
Georgia State University Law Review, Forthcoming, Hofstra Univ. Legal Studies Research
Number of pages: 57
Posted: 07 Nov 2006
Last Revised: 31 Mar 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Independent
Downloads
1,119
20.
Human-Focused Turing Tests: A Framework for Judging Nudging and Techno-Social Engineering of Human Beings
Cardozo Legal Studies Research Paper No. 441
Number of pages: 58
Posted: 22 Jan 2020
Last Revised: 22 Jan 2020
Accepted Paper Series
Villanova University - School of Law
Downloads
1,086
21.
Lost in Translation?: An Essay on Law and Neuroscience
LAW AND NEUROSCIENCE, CURRENT LEGAL ISSUES, Vol. 13, p. 529, Michael Freeman, ed., 2011, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 11-27
Number of pages: 19
Posted: 04 Aug 2011
Accepted Paper Series
University of Pennsylvania Law School
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1,082
22.
To Promote the Creative Process: Intellectual Property Law and the Psychology of Creativity
Notre Dame Law Review, Vol. 86, 2011, Temple University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2011-04
Number of pages: 28
Posted: 04 Feb 2020
Last Revised: 04 Feb 2020
Accepted Paper Series
Temple University - James E. Beasley School of Law
Downloads
1,078
23.
fMRI and Lie Detection
MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Law and Neuroscience, 2016
, Vanderbilt Law Research Paper No. 17-10
Number of pages: 5
Posted: 23 Dec 2016
Last Revised: 09 Jun 2020
Accepted Paper Series
Stanford University - Department of Psychology, University of Virginia School of Law, Yale University - Department of Psychology, US Court of Appeals - Fourth Circuit, UC Hastings Law, Second Judicial District Court Judge, State of Colorado, Vanderbilt University - Law School & Dept. of Biological Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University - Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, University of Pennsylvania Law School, Washington University in St. Louis - Department of Neurology, Yale University - Department of Psychology, Columbia University - Law School, Temple University - Department of Psychology, New York University School of Law and Yale Law School
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1,057
24.
Review of Patricia S. Churchland, 'Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tells Us About Morality'
Ethics, Vol. 123, No. 2, 2013, Georgetown Public Law Research Paper No. 13-007
Number of pages: 3
Posted: 29 Dec 2012
Last Revised: 20 Sep 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Georgetown University Law Center
Downloads
1,033
25.
Law and Neuroscience: Recommendations Submitted to the President's Bioethics Commission
Journal of Law and Biosciences, vol 1, pp 224-236 (2014)
Number of pages: 13
Posted: 31 Aug 2014
Last Revised: 27 Jul 2015
Accepted Paper Series
Vanderbilt University - Law School & Dept. of Biological Sciences, University of Virginia School of Law, Yale University - Department of Psychology, US Court of Appeals - Fourth Circuit, UC Hastings Law, Second Judicial District Court Judge, State of Colorado, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University - Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, University of Pennsylvania Law School, Washington University in St. Louis - Department of Neurology, Yale University - Department of Psychology, Columbia University - Law School, Temple University - Department of Psychology, New York University School of Law, Stanford University - Department of Psychology and Yale Law School
Downloads
1,015
26.
Mental Disorder and Criminal Law
Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, Vol. 101, p. 885, 2011, University of Pennsylvania Public Law & Legal Theory, Research Paper No. 11-23
Number of pages: 85
Posted: 24 Jul 2011
Last Revised: 02 Aug 2011
Accepted Paper Series
University of Pennsylvania Law School
Downloads
1,012
27.
Will There Be a Neurolaw Revolution?
Indiana Law Journal, Vol. 89, p. 807, 2014, Brooklyn Law School, Legal Studies Paper No. 301
Number of pages: 39
Posted: 19 Feb 2014
Last Revised: 01 Apr 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Brooklyn Law School
Downloads
988
28.
Emotion, Neuroscience, and Law: A Comment on Darwin and Greene
Emotion Review, Forthcoming, Georgetown Public Law Research Paper No. 11-26
Number of pages: 3
Posted: 14 Feb 2011
Last Revised: 26 Oct 2012
Accepted Paper Series
Georgetown University Law Center
Downloads
980
29.
Blaming the Brain
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology, Vol. 11, 2010, University of Missouri School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2009-34
Number of pages: 51
Posted: 12 Sep 2009
Last Revised: 04 Aug 2015
Accepted Paper Series
affiliation not provided to SSRN
Downloads
942
30.
Brain Science and the Theory of Juvenile Mens Rea
94 North Carolina Law Review 539 (2016)
Number of pages: 62
Posted: 08 May 2015
Last Revised: 06 Jun 2016
Accepted Paper Series
University of Alabama - School of Law
Downloads
940
31.
An Introduction to Behavioral Biology for Legal Scholars
Number of pages: 43
Posted: 20 Jun 2010
Last Revised: 04 Sep 2014
Working Paper Series
Independent
Downloads
922
32.
Punishment as Suffering
Vanderbilt Law Review, Vol. 63, No. 6, p. 1619, 2010, U of Maryland Legal Studies Research, 2010-19
Number of pages: 75
Posted: 25 Mar 2010
Last Revised: 25 Nov 2010
Accepted Paper Series
University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
Downloads
918
33.
Credit Card Borrowing and the Monoamine Oxidase A (MAOA) Gene
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 34
Posted: 20 Aug 2009
Last Revised: 27 Feb 2014
Accepted Paper Series
University of Oxford and UC San Diego Division of Social Sciences
Downloads
895
34.
G2i Knowledge Brief: A Knowledge Brief of the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Law and Neuroscience
MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Law and Neuroscience (2017)
Number of pages: 5
Posted: 28 Jul 2017
Accepted Paper Series
UC Hastings Law, University of Virginia School of Law, Yale University - Department of Psychology, US Court of Appeals - Fourth Circuit, Second Judicial District Court Judge, State of Colorado, Vanderbilt University - Law School & Dept. of Biological Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University - Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, University of Pennsylvania Law School, Washington University in St. Louis - Department of Neurology, Yale University - Department of Psychology, Columbia University - Law School, Temple University - Department of Psychology, New York University School of Law, Stanford University - Department of Psychology and Yale Law School
Downloads
882
35.
Human Biology and Criminal Responsibility: Free Will or Free Ride?
University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 137, pp. 615-671, 1988
Number of pages: 58
Posted: 17 Apr 2009
Accepted Paper Series
Fordham University School of Law
Downloads
877
36.
Neuroscience Evidence, Legal Culture, and Criminal Procedure
American Journal of Criminal Law, Vol. 33, p. 301, 2006, U of Alabama Public Law Research Paper No. 910958
Number of pages: 38
Posted: 25 Jun 2006
Accepted Paper Series
Georgetown University Law Center
Downloads
877
37.
Brand Fetishism
Connecticut Law Review, Vol. 43, p. 83
Number of pages: 67
Posted: 10 Sep 2009
Last Revised: 31 Mar 2015
Accepted Paper Series
Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law
Downloads
874
38.
Psychedelic Medicine for Mental Illness and Substance Use Disorders: Overcoming Social and Legal Obstacles
21 NYU Journal of Legislation and Public Policy 69 (2018)
Number of pages: 72
Posted: 16 Nov 2017
Last Revised: 16 Apr 2021
Accepted Paper Series
Harvard Law School
Downloads
856
39.
Emotion, Proof and Prejudice: The Cognitive Science of Gruesome Photos and Victim Impact Statements
46 Arizona State Law Journal 1003 (2014)
Number of pages: 54
Posted: 29 Mar 2014
Last Revised: 06 Aug 2015
Accepted Paper Series
DePaul University - College of Law and Arizona State University
Downloads
840
40.
Is Deontology a Heuristic? On Psychology, Neuroscience, Ethics, and Law
Number of pages: 18
Posted: 02 Aug 2013
Last Revised: 20 Aug 2013
Working Paper Series
Harvard Law School
Downloads
832
41.
Left-Brain versus Right-Brain: Competing Conceptions of Creativity in Intellectual Property Law
U.C. Davis Law Review, Vol. 44, p. 283, 2010, Temple University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2010-8
Number of pages: 79
Posted: 13 Apr 2010
Last Revised: 24 Nov 2010
Accepted Paper Series
Temple University - James E. Beasley School of Law
Downloads
829
42.
Current Directions in Violence Risk Assessment
Current Directions in Psychological Science, Forthcoming
, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2011-13
Number of pages: 16
Posted: 25 Mar 2011
Accepted Paper Series
University of California, Berkeley and University of Virginia School of Law
Downloads
824
43.
Seven Ways Neuroscience Aids Law
Neurosciences and the Human Person: New Perspectives on Human Activities (A. Battro, S. Dehaene & W. Singer, eds.) Scripta Varia 121, Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Vatican City, 2013, Forthcoming, Vanderbilt Public Law Research Paper No. 13-28
Number of pages: 13
Posted: 19 Jun 2013
Accepted Paper Series
Vanderbilt University - Law School & Dept. of Biological Sciences
Downloads
818
44.
Neuroscience, Free Will, and Criminal Responsibility
In Walter Glannon, ed., Free Will and the Brain: Neuroscientific, Philosophical, and Legal Perspectives (Cambridge 2015)., U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 15-35
Number of pages: 37
Posted: 09 Dec 2015
Accepted Paper Series
University of Pennsylvania Law School
Downloads
802
45.
Neuroscientists in Court
14 Nature Reviews Neuroscience 730 (2013), Vanderbilt Public Law Research Paper No. 14-17
Number of pages: 7
Posted: 07 May 2014
Last Revised: 15 May 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Vanderbilt University - Law School & Dept. of Biological Sciences, Stanford University - Department of Psychology, UC Hastings Law and Washington University in St. Louis - Department of Neurology
Downloads
793
46.
Privacy, Neuroscience, and Neuro-Surveillance
Number of pages: 28
Posted: 19 Apr 2016
Working Paper Series
University of Washington - The Information School
Downloads
786
47.
Law and Neuroscience
33 THE JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE 17624 (2013), Vanderbilt Public Law Research Paper No. 14-18
Number of pages: 7
Posted: 07 May 2014
Last Revised: 15 May 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Vanderbilt University - Law School & Dept. of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University - Department of Psychology
Center for Integrative and Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania and Stanford Law School
Center for Integrative and Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania and Stanford Law School
Downloads
783
48.
Well-Being Analysis vs. Cost-Benefit Analysis
62 Duke Law Journal 1603 (2013), Chicago-Kent College of Law Research Paper No. 2013-05
Number of pages: 88
Posted: 22 Jan 2012
Last Revised: 18 Mar 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Loyola University Chicago School of Law, Yeshiva University - Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and University of Chicago - Law School
Downloads
764
49.
The Law and Neuroscience Bibliography: Navigating the Emerging Field of Neurolaw
38 International Journal of Legal Information 352 (2010).
Number of pages: 49
Posted: 05 Jun 2012
Last Revised: 05 Jun 2012
Accepted Paper Series
University of Minnesota Law School
Downloads
752
50.
Psychopathy and Culpability: How Responsible is the Psychopath for Criminal Wrongdoing?
Law and Social Inquiry, Forthcoming, FSU College of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 521
Number of pages: 58
Posted: 12 Aug 2011
Last Revised: 13 Sep 2011
Accepted Paper Series
University of California, Irvine - Department of Philosophy, University of Arizona - Department of Psychology and Duke University
Downloads
744
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