Tuesday, March 15, 8:30 AM - 12:15 PM: Morning Keynotes
The State of Neuroscience and the Law
We
Are the Law: The Human Mind, Free Will and the Limits of Determinism
Michael Gazzaniga, PhD, Professor of Psychology; Director of Sage Center for the Study of Mind, University of California, Santa Barbara; former Director, MacArthur Foundation Neuroscience and Law Project, author of Human: The Science Behind What Makes Us Unique (2008), The Ethical Brain (2005), The Mind’s Past (2000), Nature’s Mind (1994), and Social Brain (1985)
Michael Gazzaniga, PhD, Professor of Psychology; Director of Sage Center for the Study of Mind, University of California, Santa Barbara; former Director, MacArthur Foundation Neuroscience and Law Project, author of Human: The Science Behind What Makes Us Unique (2008), The Ethical Brain (2005), The Mind’s Past (2000), Nature’s Mind (1994), and Social Brain (1985)
Implications
of Neuroscience for the Courtroom
Hon. Jed Rakoff, JD,United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York; Former Partner, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson; Former Partner, Mudge Rose, Guthrie, Alexander, & Ferdon; Lecturer, Columbia Law School; Governing Board, MacArthur Foundation's Law and Neuroscience Project
Hon. Jed Rakoff, JD,United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York; Former Partner, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson; Former Partner, Mudge Rose, Guthrie, Alexander, & Ferdon; Lecturer, Columbia Law School; Governing Board, MacArthur Foundation's Law and Neuroscience Project
An
Introduction to Neuroscience and Neuroimaging for Lawyers
Martha Farah, PhD, Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Natural Sciences; Director, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, and Center for Neuroscience and Society, University of Pennsylvania; co-author, “Neurocognitive enhancement: What can we do and what should we do?” (2004, Nature Reviews of Neuroscience) and “Childhood poverty: Specific associations with neurocognitive development.” (2006, Brain Research Journal) Director, Center for Neuroscience and Society, University of Pennsylvania
Martha Farah, PhD, Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Natural Sciences; Director, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, and Center for Neuroscience and Society, University of Pennsylvania; co-author, “Neurocognitive enhancement: What can we do and what should we do?” (2004, Nature Reviews of Neuroscience) and “Childhood poverty: Specific associations with neurocognitive development.” (2006, Brain Research Journal) Director, Center for Neuroscience and Society, University of Pennsylvania
Emerging
Technologies and the Future of Law
Adam Kolber, JD, Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School; Founder, “Neuroethics & Law” blog; Associate Editor, Neuroethics; Formerly, Professor of Law, University of San Diego; Laurance D. Rockefeller Visiting Fellow, Princeton University; Judicial Clerk, United States Court of Appeal for the Second Circuit; Associate, Davis Polk & Wardwell; Associate Editor, Stanford Law Review; Business Ethics Consultant, PricewaterhouseCoopers
Adam Kolber, JD, Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School; Founder, “Neuroethics & Law” blog; Associate Editor, Neuroethics; Formerly, Professor of Law, University of San Diego; Laurance D. Rockefeller Visiting Fellow, Princeton University; Judicial Clerk, United States Court of Appeal for the Second Circuit; Associate, Davis Polk & Wardwell; Associate Editor, Stanford Law Review; Business Ethics Consultant, PricewaterhouseCoopers
Tuesday, March 15 1:15 PM - 5:00 PM: Afternoon Sessions
Brains, Behavior and Addiction: Culpability and Punishment
Adolescent
Brains and Decisions
Abigail Baird, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychology; Principal Investigator, Laboratory for Developmental Neuroscience,Vassar College
Abigail Baird, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychology; Principal Investigator, Laboratory for Developmental Neuroscience,Vassar College
Criminal
Responsibility
and Neuroscience: Avoiding
Brain Overclaim Syndrome
Stephen Morse, JD, PhD, F.W. Hubbell Professor of Law; Professor of Psychology and Law in Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania; Trustee, Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law in Washington, DC; Author, "Foundations of Criminal Law," Former Member, MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Mental Health and Law; Orrin B. Evans Professor of Law, Psychiatry and the Behaviora Sciences, University of Southern California
Stephen Morse, JD, PhD, F.W. Hubbell Professor of Law; Professor of Psychology and Law in Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania; Trustee, Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law in Washington, DC; Author, "Foundations of Criminal Law," Former Member, MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Mental Health and Law; Orrin B. Evans Professor of Law, Psychiatry and the Behaviora Sciences, University of Southern California
Law and Psychiatry: Brains and
Behavioral Genetics in the Punishment of
Crime
Paul S. Appelbaum, MD, Professor, Psychiatry, Medicine and Law; Director, Division of Law, Ethics and Psychiatry, Columbia University; Former President, American Psychiatric Association (APA); Former A.F. Zeleznik Distinguished Professor and Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical School; Former Director, Law and Psychiatry Program, University of Massachusetts Medical School
Paul S. Appelbaum, MD, Professor, Psychiatry, Medicine and Law; Director, Division of Law, Ethics and Psychiatry, Columbia University; Former President, American Psychiatric Association (APA); Former A.F. Zeleznik Distinguished Professor and Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical School; Former Director, Law and Psychiatry Program, University of Massachusetts Medical School
The Neurobiological Basis of Drug
Addiction
Rita Z. Goldstein, PhD, Scientist, Brookhaven National Laboratory; Assoc. Faculty, Psychology Dept., SUNY Stonybrook; co-author, “Drugs of Addiction: Neuroimaging” (2008, Encyclopedia of Neuroscience);
Rita Z. Goldstein, PhD, Scientist, Brookhaven National Laboratory; Assoc. Faculty, Psychology Dept., SUNY Stonybrook; co-author, “Drugs of Addiction: Neuroimaging” (2008, Encyclopedia of Neuroscience);
Daubert, Frye, and fMRIs: Admissibility of Neuroscience in the Court
Neuroscience
and Lie Detection: Can Flawed Science Be Good Evidence?
Frederick Schauer, JD, MBA, David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Virginia; Author, The Law of Obscenity (BNA, 1976), Free Speech, A Philosophical Enquiry (1982), Playing by the Rules: A Philosophical Examination of Rule-Based Decision-Making in Law and in Life (1991), Profiles, Probabilities and Stereotypes (2003), and Thinking Like a Lawyer: A New Introduction to Legal Reasoning (2009)
Frederick Schauer, JD, MBA, David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Virginia; Author, The Law of Obscenity (BNA, 1976), Free Speech, A Philosophical Enquiry (1982), Playing by the Rules: A Philosophical Examination of Rule-Based Decision-Making in Law and in Life (1991), Profiles, Probabilities and Stereotypes (2003), and Thinking Like a Lawyer: A New Introduction to Legal Reasoning (2009)
Brain
Imaging
of Deception: Science vs. Practice
Daniel Langleben, MD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine; Staff Physician, Philadelphia Veteran’s Administration Medical Center
Daniel Langleben, MD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine; Staff Physician, Philadelphia Veteran’s Administration Medical Center
Brain
Imaging
for (and of) Legal Thinkers: Capabilities, Findings and
Developments
Owen D. Jones, JD, New York Alumni Chancellor’s Chair in Law and Professor of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University; Director, MacArthur Foundation Law and Neuroscience Project; Director and Former President, Society for Evolutionary Analysis in Law. Co-Author, “Brain Imaging for Legal Thinkers: A Guide for the Perplexed” (2009, Stanford Technology Law Review)
Owen D. Jones, JD, New York Alumni Chancellor’s Chair in Law and Professor of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University; Director, MacArthur Foundation Law and Neuroscience Project; Director and Former President, Society for Evolutionary Analysis in Law. Co-Author, “Brain Imaging for Legal Thinkers: A Guide for the Perplexed” (2009, Stanford Technology Law Review)
Criminal Minds: Criminal Intent, Violence and the Law
The
Development of a Psychopath: An Affective Neuroscience Approach
James Blair, PhD, Chief, Unit on Affective Cognitive Neuroscience,National Institute of Mental Health; Author, The Amygdala and Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex: Functional Contributions and Dysfunction in Psychopathy (2008); Reduced Amygdala Response to Fearful Expressions in Children and Adolsecents with Callous-Unemotional Traits and Disruptive Behavior Disorders (2008); and Abnormal Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex Function in Children with Psychopathic Traits During Reversal Learning (2008)
James Blair, PhD, Chief, Unit on Affective Cognitive Neuroscience,National Institute of Mental Health; Author, The Amygdala and Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex: Functional Contributions and Dysfunction in Psychopathy (2008); Reduced Amygdala Response to Fearful Expressions in Children and Adolsecents with Callous-Unemotional Traits and Disruptive Behavior Disorders (2008); and Abnormal Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex Function in Children with Psychopathic Traits During Reversal Learning (2008)
Criminal
Responsibility in the Neuroscientific Era
Nita Farahany, JD, PhD, Associate Professor of Law; Associate Professor of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University Law School; Editor, The Impact of Behavioral Sciences on Criminal Law (2009); Author, Law and Behavioral Morality (2009)
Nita Farahany, JD, PhD, Associate Professor of Law; Associate Professor of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University Law School; Editor, The Impact of Behavioral Sciences on Criminal Law (2009); Author, Law and Behavioral Morality (2009)
Violence on the Brain: Neuroscience
in Criminal Law
Amanda Pustilnik, JD, Asst. Professor of Law, University of Maryland School of Law; author, “Violence on the Brain: A Critique of Neuroscience in Criminal Law” (2008, Wake Forest Law Review)
Amanda Pustilnik, JD, Asst. Professor of Law, University of Maryland School of Law; author, “Violence on the Brain: A Critique of Neuroscience in Criminal Law” (2008, Wake Forest Law Review)
Wednesday, March 16, 8:30 AM - 12:30 PM: Morning Keynotes
Witness Reliability, Memories and Bias in the Courtroom
False
Memories and Witness Reliability
Elizabeth Loftus,PhD, Distinguished Professor; Professor, Psyschology & Social Behavior; Professor Criminology, Law & Society; Professor, Cognitive Sciences; Professor, School of Law, Director, Center for Psychology & Law; Fellow, Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory and Professor of Law, University of California, Irvine; author of The Myth of Repressed Memory: False Memories and Allegations of Sexual Abuse (1996), Eyewitness Testimony (1996), and Memory (1980)
Elizabeth Loftus,PhD, Distinguished Professor; Professor, Psyschology & Social Behavior; Professor Criminology, Law & Society; Professor, Cognitive Sciences; Professor, School of Law, Director, Center for Psychology & Law; Fellow, Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory and Professor of Law, University of California, Irvine; author of The Myth of Repressed Memory: False Memories and Allegations of Sexual Abuse (1996), Eyewitness Testimony (1996), and Memory (1980)
Emotions,
Memory and Bias: Implications for the Courts
Elizabeth Phelps, PhD, Professor of Psychology, New York University; author, “Faces and Races in the Brain” (2001, Nature Neuroscience)
Elizabeth Phelps, PhD, Professor of Psychology, New York University; author, “Faces and Races in the Brain” (2001, Nature Neuroscience)
Neuroscience and the Ethics of Legal
Practice
Oliver R. Goodenough, JD, Professor of Law, University of Vermont; Research Fellow, the Gruter Institute for Law and Behavioral Research; Co-Editor, Law and the Brain (2004)
Oliver R. Goodenough, JD, Professor of Law, University of Vermont; Research Fellow, the Gruter Institute for Law and Behavioral Research; Co-Editor, Law and the Brain (2004)
You will gain knowledge about:
- What Brain Scans Can Tell You (and What They Can't)
- False Memories and Witness Reliability
- fMRIs and Their Admissibility
- How Neuroscience is Changing the Law
- Brain Scans as the New Generation of Lie Detectors
- Criminal Responsibility in the Age of Neuroscience
- How Adolescent Brain Differ from Adult Brains and What It Means for the Law
- Why Drug Addiction Affects the Brain and Why It Matters in the Courtroom
- Psychopathy, Crime and Punishment
- Ethical and Legal Implications of Using Cognitive Neuroscience Findings
- Attorneys
- Judges
- Law Professors
- Law Enforcement
- Forensic Psychologists
- Neuroscientists