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Brain Scans as Evidence: Truths, Proofs, Lies, and Lessons
(Mercer Law Review, 2011)
This contribution to the Brain Sciences in the Courtroom Symposium identifies and discusses issues important to admissibility determinations when courts confront brain-scan evidence. Through the vehicle of the landmark ...
Sex, Culture, and the Biology of Rape
(California Law Review, 1999)
For all that has been written about rape, its multiple causes remain insufficiently understood for law to deter it effectively. This follows, in part, from inadequately interdisciplinary study of rape causation. This Article ...
Realities of Rape: Of Science and Politics, Causes and Meanings
(Cornell Law Review, 2001)
This review essay discusses the book A Natural History of Rape: Biological Bases of Sexual Coercion, by Randy Thornhill and Craig Palmer (MIT Press, 2000). The essay builds on work previously appearing in Owen D. Jones, ...
Trade and the Separation of Powers
(California Law Review, 2019)
There are two paradigms through which to view trade law and policy within the American constitutional system. One paradigm sees trade law and policy as quintessentially about domestic economic policy. Institutionally, under ...
Trade and the Separation of Powers
(California Law Review, 2019)
There are two paradigms through which to view trade law and policy within the American constitutional system. One paradigm sees trade law and policy as quintessentially about domestic economic policy. Institutionally, under ...
The Neural Correlates of Third-Party Punishment
(Neuron, 2008-12)
This article reports the discovery, from the first full-scale law and neuroscience experiment, of the brain activity underlying punishment decisions.
We used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to measure brain ...
"Sorry" Is Never Enough
(Stanford Law Review, 2019)
Based on case studies indicating that apologies from physicians to patients can promote healing, understanding, and dispute resolution, 38 states have sought to reduce litigation and medical malpractice liability by enacting ...
Too-Big-to-Fail Shareholders
(Minnesota Law Review, 2018)
To build resilience within the financial system, post-Crisis regulation relies heavily on banks to fund themselves more fully by issuing equity. This reserve of value should buttress failing banks by providing a mechanism ...
Taming Blockbuster Punitive Damages
(University of Illinois Law Review, 2019)
Blockbuster punitive damages awards, i.e., those awards exceeding $100 million, attract attention based on their sheer size. While there have been fewer such awards in the last decade, they remain an important presence in ...
Insider Information and the Limits of Insider Trading
(Washington University Journal of Law & Policy, 2018)
This essay offers brief observations on the internal coherence of the rationales underlying the prohibition against insider trading, taking the opportunity offered by Newman and Salman to reflect on its central policy aims. ...