Paul Litton

University of Missouri School of Law

Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development and R.B. Price Professor of Law

Missouri Avenue & Conley Avenue

Columbia, MO MO 65211

United States

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Criminal Responsibility and Psychopathy: Do Psychopaths Have a Right to Excuse?

Handbook on Psychopathy and Law (Oxford Series on Neuroscience, Law, and Philosophy) Kent A. Kiehl & Walter P. Sinnott-Armstrong, eds., New York: Oxford University Press (2013), University of Missouri School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2013-16
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 17 Dec 2013
Paul Litton
University of Missouri School of Law
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moral responsibility, criminal responsibility, psychopathy

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Responsibility Status of the Psychopath: On Moral Reasoning and Rational Self-Governance

Rutgers Law Journal, Vol. 39, No. 349, 2008, University of Missouri School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2008-30
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 07 Dec 2008
Paul Litton
University of Missouri School of Law
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psychopathy, responsibility, compatibilism

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Crime, Punishment, and Causation: The Effect of Etiological Information on the Perception of Moral Agency

Psychology, Public Policy, and Law (Forthcoming), University of Missouri School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2017-21
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 02 Aug 2017
Philip Robbins and Paul Litton
University of Missouri - Department of Philosophy and University of Missouri School of Law
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experimental philosophy, free will, moral typecasting; blame; punishment; responsibility; causation

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Is Psychological Research on Self-Control Relevant to Criminal Law?

Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law, Forthcoming, University of Missouri School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2014-09
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 06 Apr 2014
Paul Litton
University of Missouri School of Law
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self-control, psychology of self-control, free will, responsibility, criminal law, criminal responsibility

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Physician Participation in Executions, the Morality of Capital Punishment, and the Practical Implications of Their Relationship

41 Journal of Law, Medicine, & Ethics 333 (2013), University of Missouri School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2013-13
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 29 Jun 2013
Paul Litton
University of Missouri School of Law
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The 'Abuse Excuse' in Capital Sentencing Trials: Is it Relevant to Responsibility, Punishment, or Neither?

American Criminal Law Review, Vol. 42, 2005, U of Missouri-Columbia School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2006-42
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 04 Jan 2007
Paul Litton
University of Missouri School of Law
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responsibility, punishment, death penalty

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Non-Beneficial Pediatric Research and the Best Interests Standard: A Legal and Ethical Reconciliation

University of Missouri School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2008-27, Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics, Vol. 8, p. 359, 2008
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 14 Oct 2008
Paul Litton
University of Missouri School of Law
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Traumatic Brain Injury and a Divergence between Moral and Criminal Responsibility

56 Duq. L. Rev. 35 (2018) (symposium), University of Missouri School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2018-35
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 07 Dec 2018
Paul Litton
University of Missouri School of Law
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'Nanoethics'? What's New?

Hastings Center Report, Vol. 37, p. 22, 2007
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 07 Dec 2008
Paul Litton
University of Missouri School of Law
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Nanotechnology, Nanoethics, Nanomedicine, Environment, Ethics and Technology

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Symposium Foreword: Bombshell or Babystep? The Ramifications of Miller v. Alabama for Sentencing Law and Juvenile Crime Policy

Missouri Law Review, Vol. 78, No. 4, Fall 2013, University of Missouri School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2014-10
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 11 Apr 2014
Paul Litton
University of Missouri School of Law
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Miller v. Alabama, juvenile sentencing, LWOP, Eighth Amendment

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On the Argument That Execution Protocol Reform is Biomedical Research

90 Washington L. Rev. Online 87 (2015), University of Missouri School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2015-14
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 24 Jul 2015
Paul Litton
University of Missouri School of Law
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execution, biomedical, Glossip, Oklahoma, midazolam, Shah, death penalty, lethal, injection

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ADHD, Values, and the Self

American Journal of Bioethics 5, No. 3 (2005): 65-67
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 02 May 2014
Paul Litton
University of Missouri School of Law
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ADHD, attention deficit disorder, attention-deficit hyperactivity, authenticity, authentic self, real self, Ritalin

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Good Deeds and Hard Knocks: The Effect of Past Suffering on Praise for Moral Behavior

University of Missouri School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2021-26
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 30 Sep 2021
Philip Robbins, Fernando Alvear and Paul Litton
University of Missouri - Department of Philosophy, University of Missouri - Department of Philosophy and University of Missouri School of Law
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praise; blame; moral typecasting; prosocial behavior; altruism; effort; theory of dyadic morality; attribution theory