Stephen Morse

University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

Ferdinand Wakeman Hubbell Professor

3501 Sansom Street

Philadelphia, PA 19104

United States

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1.

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
Yale University - Department of Psychology, University of Virginia School of Law, US Court of Appeals - Fourth Circuit, UC Law, San Francisco, Second Judicial District Court Judge, State of Colorado, Vanderbilt University - Law School & Dept. of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech - Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, University of Pennsylvania Carey 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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Juvenile justice, adolescent, children, minors, brain, brain imaging, neuroscience, law and neuroscience, neurolaw, neuroimaging, cognitive neuroscience, cognitive psychology, maturity, functional magnetic resonance imaging, fMRI, responsibility, culpability, mens rea, punishment, crime

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Brain Overclaim Syndrome and Criminal Responsibility: A Diagnostic Note

Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law, Vol. 3, p. 397, 2006, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 06-35
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 13 Apr 2006
Stephen Morse
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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Brain Overclaim Syndrome, neuroscience, criminal responsibility, Roper v. Simmons, Cognitive Jurotherapy

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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
Stephen Morse
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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Criminal law, psychology, psychiatry, mental disorders, functional magnetic resonance imaging, fMRI, mechanistic analysis of the brain and the relationship to behavior, behaviour, competence to stand trial, compulsion, responsibility, culpability, excuses, mitigation, sentencing

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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
Stanford University - Department of Psychology, University of Virginia School of Law, Yale University - Department of Psychology, US Court of Appeals - Fourth Circuit, UC Law, San Francisco, Second Judicial District Court Judge, State of Colorado, Vanderbilt University - Law School & Dept. of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech - Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, University of Pennsylvania Carey 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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lie detection, polygraph, memory, deception, evidence, neuroscience, law and neuroscience, neurolaw, brain, brain imaging, brain scan, neuroimaging, functional magnetic resonance imaging, fMRI, behavioral biology, cognitive neuroscience, cognitive psychology

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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
Stephen Morse
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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Criminal law, psychology, psychiatry, mental disorders, insanity, competence, responsibility, culpability, special treatment, justice, morality

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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
Stephen Morse
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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Criminal law, neurosciences, philosophy of mind, culpability, excuse, mitigation, behavioral causation, compulsion, competence, mental states, mens rea, intention, libertarian free will, voluntary action, compatibilism

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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
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 Law, San Francisco, Second Judicial District Court Judge, State of Colorado, Virginia Tech - Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, University of Pennsylvania Carey 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
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law and neuroscience, psychology, neurolaw, criminal responsibility, tort liability, evidence, brain, memory, injury, emotion, lie detection, judging, psychopathy, fMRI, EEG, decision making, neuroethics, bioethics, punishment, sentencing

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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
UC Law, San Francisco, 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 Tech - Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, University of Pennsylvania Carey 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
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evidence, G2i, group-to-individual inference, neuroscience, neurolaw, law and neuroscience, brain, brain imaging

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The Non-Problem of Free Will in Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology

Behavioral Sciences & the Law, Vol. 25, pp. 203-220, 2007, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 07-19
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 23 Apr 2007
Stephen Morse
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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free will, reason, forensic psychiatry and psychology, criminal responsibility, excuse, mental health laws, law and philosophy, determinism, incompatibilism, compatibilism, jurisprudence

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Abolition of the Insanity Defense Violates Due Process

Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, Vol. 41, Pg. 488, 2013, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 15-33
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 05 Dec 2015
Stephen Morse and Richard J. Bonnie
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and University of Virginia School of Law
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Criminal procedure, constitutional law, Fifth Amendment, Supreme Court of the United States, SCOTUS, Delling v. Idaho, blame, responsibility, mental disorder, competence, punishment, fairness

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The Uneasy Entente Between Insanity and Mens Rea: Beyond Clark v. Arizona

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, Vol. 97, p. 1071, 2008, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 07-05
Number of pages: 79 Posted: 14 Feb 2007 Last Revised: 17 Nov 2009
Stephen Morse and Morris B. Hoffman
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and Second Judicial District Court Judge, State of Colorado
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mens rea, insanity, blame, punishment, responsibility

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Genetics and Criminal Responsibility

Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Forthcoming, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 11-34
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 24 Aug 2011
Stephen Morse
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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Criminal law and responsibility, psychology, genetic research, the brain and behavior, human nature, mens rea, causation, excuse, genes, compatibilism and determinism, mental states

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Mental Disorder and Criminal Justice

In REFORMING CRIMINAL JUSTICE: A REPORT OF THE ACADEMY FOR JUSTICE BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN SCHOLARSHIP AND REFORM (Erik Luna ed., Academy for Justice 2018)., U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 17-22
Number of pages: 78 Posted: 05 May 2017 Last Revised: 05 Apr 2018
Stephen Morse
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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criminal law and procedure, psychiatry, law enforcement, corrections, sentencing, incarceration, prisoners, treatment, diagnosis, competence, responsibility, insanity, mens rea, mitigation, commitment, American Bar Association Criminal Justice Mental Health Standards

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Addiction, Genetics and Criminal Responsibility

Law and Contemporary Problems, Vol. 69, p. 165, 2006
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 09 Oct 2006
Stephen Morse
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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Neuroscience and the Future of Personhood and Responsibility

U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 12-26, Constitution 3.0: Freedom and Technological Change, Jeffrey Rosen, Benjamin Wittes eds., Brookings Institution Press, 2011
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 04 Apr 2012
Stephen Morse
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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Criminal law, neuroscience, responsibility, genetics, prediction and prevention of dangerous behavior, prefrontal cortex, moral agency, innocent until proven guilty, autonomy, victims of neuronal circumstances, conscious will

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Uncontrollable Urges and Irrational People

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 11 Dec 2001
Stephen Morse
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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Predicting the Knowledge-Recklessness Distinction in the Human Brain

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2016
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 16 Mar 2017 Last Revised: 28 Mar 2019
University College London - Wellcome Trust Center for Neuroimaging, University of Kentucky - Behavioral Sciences, Ohio State University (OSU) - Department of Psychology, University of Virginia School of Law, Second Judicial District Court Judge, State of Colorado, Vanderbilt University - Law School & Dept. of Biological Sciences, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, Yale Law School, Virginia Tech - Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute and Virginia Tech - Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute
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law and neuroscience, criminal law, mental state, punishment, crime, blame, culpability, mens rea, Model Penal Code, MPC, knowledge, recklessness, responsibility, intention, brain, brain imaging, brain scan, neuroimaging, neuroscience, functional magnetic resonance imaging, fMRI, neurolaw

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Addiction, Choice and Criminal Law

In ADDICTION AND CHOICE, ed. Nick Heather and Gabriel Segal, Oxford U.P. (Forthcoming), U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 15-37
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 16 Dec 2015
Stephen Morse
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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addiction, disease, choice, responsibility, criminalization, punishment

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Neuroethics: Neurolaw

In Oxford Handbooks Online (February 2017), U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 17-9
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 16 Feb 2017
Stephen Morse
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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neuroscience, neuroethics, neurolaw, agency, responsibility, enhancement, civil liberty, competence, informed consent, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)

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Criminal Law and Common Sense: An Essay on the Perils and Promise of Neuroscience

Marquette Law Review, Vol. 99, P. 39, 2015, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 15-38
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 19 Dec 2015 Last Revised: 22 Apr 2016
Stephen Morse
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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Criminal law, neurosciences, philosophy of mind, culpability, excuse, mitigation, behavioral causation, compulsion, mental states, mens rea, intention, libertarian free will, causal theory of action, compatibilism

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Neuroprediction: New Technology, Old Problems

Bioethica Forum, Vol. 8, P. 128, 2015, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 16-1
Number of pages: 3 Posted: 27 Jan 2016
Stephen Morse
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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Criminal procedure, evidence, neurosciences, behavioral prediction, medical ethics, privacy, sentencing, corrections, parole, bail, neural measures

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Gene-Environment Interactions, Criminal Responsibility, and Sentencing

GENE INTERACTIONS IN DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY, Kenneth A. Dodge, Michael Rutter, eds., Guilford Press, 2011, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 11-26
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 04 Aug 2011
Stephen Morse
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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criminal law, psychology, psychiatry, mental disorders, genetic-environmental interactions, responsibility, culpability, excuses, mitigation, sentencing, rehabilitation, prevention

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Law and the Sciences of the Brain/Mind

Oxford Handbook on Law and the Regulation of Technology, Oxford, Forthcoming, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 16-15
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 24 Apr 2016
Stephen Morse
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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Personhood, agency, responsibility, neuroscience, behavioral genetics, compatibilism, rationality, criminal culpability, free will

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Protecting Liberty and Autonomy: Desert/Disease Jurisprudence

San Diego Law Review, Vol. 48, p. 1077, 2011, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 12-10
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 13 Feb 2012
Stephen Morse
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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Mental health law, criminal law, liberty, autonomy, preventative detention, expanding desert jurisprudence, expanding disease jurisprudence, involuntary civil commitment, psychopaths, sexual predators, consequentialism, preemption and prevention of dangerous intentional conduct

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Before and After Hinckley: Legal Insanity in the United States

U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 21-08, In The Insanity Defence: International and Comparative Perspectives (Ronnie Mackay & Warren Brookbanks eds., Oxford, 2022 Forthcoming
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 11 Feb 2021
Stephen Morse
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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Criminal law & procedure, psychology, legal history, mens rea, insanity defense, mental disorder, Model Penal Code, MPC, M’Naghten test, production & persuasion burden, cognitive & control tests, Supreme Court of the United States, SCOTUS, civil commitment

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Neurohype and the Law: A Cautionary Tale

In Casting Light on the Dark Side of Brain Imaging (Amir Raz & Robert Thibault eds, Elsevier 2019)., U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 18-30
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 06 Sep 2018 Last Revised: 02 Feb 2020
Stephen Morse
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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Criminal law, neuroscience, non-invasive brain imaging, Brain Overclaim Syndrome, language of mechanism v. folk psychology, determinism, responsibility. neurodeterminism, mental states, behavioral criteria of law, empirical problems, replication crisis

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Actions Speak Louder Than Images: The Use of Neuroscientific Evidence in Criminal Cases

Journal of Law and the Biosciences, pp. 1–7, 2016, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 16-17
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 20 Jun 2016
Stephen Morse
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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Criminal Law, Empirical Legal Studies, Evidence, Relevance, Courts, Sentencing, Punishment, Culpability, Excuse, Competency, Mitigation, Compulsion, Predictions, Neuroscience, Neuroimaging, Brain Imaging

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A Good Enough Reason: Addiction, Agency and Criminal Responsibility

Inquiry, Vol. 56, P. 490, 2013, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 15-36
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 09 Dec 2015
Stephen Morse
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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Criminal law, Powell v. Texas, Eighth Amendment, culpability, compulsion, duress, rationality, causal theory of excuse, determinism, free will, alcoholism, intoxication, self-control, punishment, mens rea, mental states, mitigation

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What Do We Owe Each Other?: An Essay on Law and Society

Los Angeles Review of Books, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 20-43
Number of pages: 2 Posted: 30 Oct 2020
Stephen Morse
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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Review of Nobody’s Child by Susan Vinocour, insanity defense, attitudes toward mentally ill defendants; guilt & punishment; operation of criminal justice system for poor & people of color, failures by schools, hospitals, communities & social service agencies to help those with major mental disorders

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Against the Received Wisdom: Why Should the Criminal Justice System Give Kids a Break?

Criminal Law & Philosophy, Forthcoming, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 19-29
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 09 Jul 2019
Stephen Morse
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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criminal law and philosophy, legal theory, juvenile justice, responsibility, rationality, diminished capacity, adolescent development, immaturity, Gideon Yaffe, The Age of Culpability, political disenfranchisement, reasons to obey, self-ownership, individualization

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Severe Environmental Deprivation (aka RSB): A Tragedy, Not a Defense

Alabama Civil Rights & Civil Liberties Law Review, Vol. 2, p. 147, 2011, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 12-25
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 01 Apr 2012
Stephen Morse
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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Criminal law and procedure, defenses, excuse, severe environmental deprivation, SED, predisposition, compulsion, mental disorder, blame, injustice, Social Moral Forfeit, SMF, social justice, coercive indoctrination, responsibility for character, social privilege, neoliberalism, culture of control

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Neuroscience in Forensic Contexts: Ethical Concerns

In Ethics Challenges in Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology Practice 132-158 (Ezra E. H. Griffith ed., 2018), U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 17-8
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 24 Feb 2017 Last Revised: 18 Oct 2018
Stephen Morse
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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Criminal procedure, functional magnetic resonance imaging, fMRI, expert witnesses, brain imaging, scanning, cognitive, affective, & social neuroscience, mental states, folk psychology, competence, insanity

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New Therapies, Old Problems, or, a Plea for Neuromodesty

American Journal of Bioethics: Neuroscience, Vol. 3, No. 1, p. 60, 2012, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 12-09
Posted: 10 Feb 2012
Stephen Morse
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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bioethics, deep-brain stimulation, informed consent, neuroethics, neurological and psychiatric disorders, psychosurgery

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Brief of Amici Curiae of 11 Addiction Experts in Support of Appellee

U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 17-44
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 05 Oct 2017
Boston College - Department of Psychology, Emory University - Emory College of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and American Enterprise Institute (AEI)
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Criminal Law, Probation Violation, Addiction, Substance Use Disorder (SUD), Brain Disease Model, Brain Changes, Alteration of Behaviors, Choice, Capacity to Change Behavior, Treatment-Based Approaches to Criminal Justice

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Commentary: Reflections on Remorse

Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, Vol. 42, Pg. 49, 2014, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 15-34
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 04 Dec 2015
Stephen Morse
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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Criminal law, forensic psychiatry, sentencing, justifications for blame and punishment, retribution, deterrence and incapacitation, nonpaternalistic and paternalistic rehabilitation, remorse and forensic practice, restitution, judges, judicial discretion

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Internal and External Challenges to Culpability

Arizona State Law Journal, Vol. 53, No. 2, Forthcoming., U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 21-01
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 13 Jan 2021
Stephen Morse
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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Criminal law, mental state, mens rea, culpability, responsibility, blame, folk psychological agent, mental abnormalities, challenges to personhood & first-person agency, mental disorders, legal insanity, neuroscience, determinism, responsible agents

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Moore on the Mind

Legal, Moral, and Metaphysical Truths: The Philosophy of Michael S. Moore, Kimberly Ferzan & Stephen J. Morse eds., Oxford U.P., Forthcoming, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 15-39
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 19 Dec 2015
Stephen Morse
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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Criminal law, Michael S. Moore, agency, compatibilism, determinism, free will, culpability, status excuse, mental states, causal theory of action, CTA, compulsion, dissociation, insanity, mental disorders, diminished control capacity

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Remodelling Criminal Insanity: Exploring Philosophical, Legal, and Medical Premises of the Medical Model Used In Norwegian Law

International Journal of Law and Psychiatry (Forthcoming), U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 22-07
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 19 Jan 2022
University of Bergen - Faculty of Law, Adult Psychiatry Unit, University of Oslo, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and Department of Philosophy, Linguistics, Theory of Science, University of Gothenburg
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Criminal law, medical model, criminal insanity, Norwegian insanity law, criminal responsibility, mental disorder

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Involuntary Competence in United States Criminal Law

in Fitness to Plead: International and Comparative Perspectives (Ronnie Mackay & Warren Brookbanks eds., Oxford University Press, Forthcoming), U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 17-20
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 14 Apr 2017
Stephen Morse
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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Competence, Psychotropic Medication, Finality, State Interests, Individual Interests, Civil Commitment, Criminal Law, Competency

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Is Executive Function The Universal Acid?

U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 20-46
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 19 Nov 2020
Stephen Morse
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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cognition, perception, executive functioning, decision-making, brain, self-regulatory activities, moral & criminal responsibility, excuse, psychological correlation to neuroscientific variables, sleepwalking killer, unwilling addict, juvenile justice, mental disorder, blame, desert, punishment

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The Neuroscientific Non-Challenge to Meaning, Morals, and Purpose

In, Neuroexistentialism: Meaning, Morals, and Purpose in the Age of Neuroscience 333-357 (Gregg D. Caruso and Owen Flanagan eds., 2018)., U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 18-34
Posted: 13 Nov 2018
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University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

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Criminal justice policy, neuroscience, philosophy of action, agency, responsibility, free will, determinism, hard incompatibilism, victim of neuronal circumstances, pack of neurons, folk psychology, mental states, rationality, mens rea, culpability

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Criminal Law and Addiction

The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Science of Addiction 540-53 (Hanna Pickard and Serge H. Ahmed, eds., 2019)., U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 18-35
Posted: 25 Oct 2018
Stephen Morse
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

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Criminal law, assumptions about addiction, addicts, controlled substances, crime, drugs, drug abuse, personal criminal responsibility, determinism, abnormal causation, compulsion, automatons, constitutional background, lack of volition, the choice model, mitigation, sentencing, diversion

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The Promise of Neuroscience for Law: Hope or Hype?

In The Palgrave Handbook of Philosophy and Public Policy 77-96 (David Boonin ed., 2018), U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 18-36
Posted: 22 Oct 2018
Stephen Morse
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

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Criminal justice policy, behavioral neuroscience, philosophy of action, responsibility, free will, determinism, folk psychology, mental states, mens rea, culpability, competency, functional magnetic resonance imaging, fMRI