Law & Neuroscience Colloquium - 6 & 7 July 2009 at UCL

Neuroscience’s Challenge to Folk Psychology Implicit in Law
Stephen Morse (University of Pennsylvania Law School)

Social, Cultural and Explanatory Power That Scientific and Clinical Images Maintain in Western Culture
Daniel Goldberg (Baylor College of Medicine)

What Neuroscience Can (and Cannot) Tell Us About Criminal Responsibility
Walter Glannon (University of Calgary)

Neuroscience and emotional distress claims in tort law
Betsy Grey (Arizona State University School of Law)

Reciprocity and Neuroscience in Public Health Law
A.M. Viens (Queen Mary, University of London)

The Neuroscience of Fair Play: Neural Mechanisms Underlying Altruistic Behaviours and Their Failures
Donald Pfaff (Rockefeller University, New York)

Brain Images As Legal Evidence
Adina Roskies and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (Dartmouth College)

SESSION III:  

Neurotechnology and Subjective Experience
Adam Kolber  (University of San Diego)

The Relevance of Neuroscience to the Law’s Responsibility Practices
Nicole A Vincent (Delft University of Technology)

The Brain Sciences and Criminal Law Norms
Ted Blumoff (Mercer University)

If Hume Knew Neuroscience:
A Functional Explanation for the Apparent Separation of “Is” and “Ought”
Oliver Goodenough

The False Promise of Adolescent Brain Science on Juvenile Justice
Terry Maroney (Vanderbilt University Law School)

The Teen Brain and Transition To Adulthood
June Carbone (University of Missouri Law School) and Naomi Cahn (George Washington University)

The Carmentis Machine: Legal and Ethical Issues in the Use of Neuro-imaging for Prognosis in Newborn Infants 
Dominic Wilkinson (University of Oxford, Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics) and Charles Foster (The Ethox Centre, University of Oxford, and Outer Temple Chambers, London) 

Steps toward a constructivist and coherentist theory of judicial reasoning in civil law tradition.
Enrique Caceres (National Autonomous University of México)

In Quest of Fundamental Principles of ‘Neurolaw’
Federico Gustavo Pizzetti (University of Milano)

Law and the Brain – A Perspective from The Netherlands
Gert-Jan Lokhorst (Delft University of Technology)

The Objectivity of Subjective Truths
Semir Zeki (UCL)

Neuroscience and National Security: A Human Rights Critique 
Jonathan Marks (Penn State University)

Screen and Intervene: Biomarkers and the Search of Criminal Susceptibilities
Nikolas Rose (London School of Economics)

Incriminating Thoughts
Nita Farahany (Vanderbilt University, Philosophy)

Forensic Neuroscience and the Right To Silence
Dov Fox (Yale University)

Moral Responsibility and The Problem of Luck
John Fischer (University of California)

Neuroscience and Criminal Responsibility: Exploring Causation
Hank Greely (Stanford University Law School)

Law, Neuroscience and Criminal Culpability 
Lisa Claydon (University of West of England)

Rationality, Responsibility and Brain Function
Tom Buller (University of Alaska)

Neuroscience and the Free Exercise of Religion
Steven Goldberg (Georgetown Law Centre)

The Neuroscience of Empathy and Compassion
James Desmond Duffy

Competition in the Courtroom: Experiments on Adverserial Competition, Juror Sophistication and Decision Difficulty
Cheryl Boudreau (University of California, Davis, Political Science)

The Juridical Role of Emotions in the Decisional Process of Popular Juries
Laura Capraro (University of Roma)

Mental States and Neuroscience
Mike Pardo (University of Alabama)

The Efficiency of Penal Systems and the Perception Breaking The Law
David Terracina (University of Roma)

Neuroscience and Disorders of Communication
Joseph Fins (Cornell University)

Black Boxes
Julie Seaman (Emory University Law School)

Neuroscience in Court: Lessons from the History of Forensic Science 
Jennifer Mnookin (UCLA Law School)

Neuroscience of cruelty as brain damage: legal framings of capacity and ethical issues in the neuro-rehabilitation of motor neurone disease and behavioural variant fronto-temporal dementia patients
Robin Mackenzie (Medical Law & Ethics Centre, University of Kent) and
Dr Mohamed Sakel (Director, Neurorehabilitation Services and Director of Research and Development, East Kent University Hospital Trust)