Law & Neuroscience Works in Progress Workshop
TO JOIN the workshop, please click here to join the email list. Once you’re on the list you will receive an invite with the Zoom link for each session. You will also receive the papers before each workshop.
Description: This workshop is an opportunity for scholars and practitioners to present their research on law and neuroscience. As a works in progress workshop, scholarship in all stages of development is welcome, from an initial precis to a completed draft. “Law and neuroscience” should be interpreted broadly, for example to include both civil and criminal law, and the workshop invites all methodologies, for example both empirical and theoretical work.
Fall 2022 Dates & Times:
*3rd Tuesdays* at 1 pm Pacific / 2 pm Mountain / 3 pm Central / 4 pm Eastern
September 20, 2022
Leslie Scott, Sentencing Resource Counsel with the Federal Public and Community Defenders
Paper: Substance Use Disorder’s (SUD) Impact on Criminal Decision-Making and Role in Federal Sentencing Jurisprudence: Arguing for Culpability-Based SUD Mitigation
October 18, 2022
Roland Nadler, Peter A. Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia
Paper: Problematizing the Promise of Forensic Pain Neuroimaging …
November 15, 2022
Emily Murphy, UC Hastings College of Law, Paper TBD
Paper: TBD
Location: Zoom (link to be provided in calendar invite to follow)
Format: The workshop paper will be circulated about a week in advance. We will begin the workshop promptly, and if our numbers are small enough I will ask everyone who can to introduce yourself with name and affiliation. I will then introduce the presenter, and the presenter will talk about their work for no more than 7 minutes. This will leave us the bulk of the hour for discussion. I will keep the discussion queue, and we’ll do what we love—talk shop about neuroscience and law. Because schedules are busy, I will insist on ending the formal workshop at the hour, but all will be welcome to stick around and virtually mingle after.
Interested in presenting your own work? Great! On the sign up form, please note that you’d like to present in the spring. If we have more interest than slots available, I will give priority to scholars who are earlier in their careers and newer to the field.