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Behavioral Genetics and Crime, In Context
(Law and Contemporary Problems, 2006)
This Article provides an introduction to some of the key issues at the intersection of behavioral genetics and crime.
It provides, among other things, an overview of the emerging points of consensus, scientifically, on ...
Time-Shifted Rationality and the Law of Law's Leverage
(Northwestern University Law Review, 2001)
A flood of recent scholarship explores legal implications of seemingly irrational behaviors by invoking cognitive psychology and notions of bounded rationality. In this article, I argue that advances in behavioral biology ...
Realism, Punishment & Reform
(Chicago Law Review, 2010)
Professors Donald Braman, Dan Kahan, and David Hoffman, in their article "Some Realism About Punishment Naturalism," to be published in an upcoming issue of the University of Chicago Law Review, critique a series of our ...
Law, Responsibility, and the Brain
(PLoS Biology, 2007)
This article addresses new developments in neuroscience, and their implications for law. It explores, for example, the relationships between brain injury and violence, as well as the connections between mental disorders ...
Parsing the Behavioral and Brain Mechanisms of Third-Party Punishment
(The Journal of Neuroscience, 2016)
The evolved capacity for third-party punishment is considered crucial to the emergence and maintenance of elaborate human social organization and is central to the modern provision of fairness and justice within society. ...
Law, Biology, and Property: A New Theory of the Endowment Effect
(William & Mary Law Review, 2008)
Recent work at the intersection of law and behavioral biology has suggested numerous contexts in which legal thinking could benefit by integrating knowledge from behavioral biology. In one of those contexts, behavioral ...
Time-Shifted Rationality and the Law of Law's Leverage
(Northwestern University Law Review, 2001)
A flood of recent scholarship explores legal implications of seemingly irrational behaviors by invoking cognitive psychology and notions of bounded rationality. In this article, I argue that advances in behavioral biology ...
Law and Biology: Toward an Integrated Model of Human Behavior
(Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues, 1997)
This Article explores ways in which social science perspectives on behavior can be combined with life science perspectives on behavior to the advantage of law. It emphasizes both values of and techniques for integration, ...
On the Nature of Norms: Biology, Morality, and the Disruption of Order
(Michigan Law Review, 2000)
This essay discusses the legal implications of bio-behavioral underpinnings to norms, morality, and economic order. It first discusses the recent book "The Great Disruption: Human Nature and the Reconstitution of Social ...
Proprioception, Non-Law, and Biolegal History
(Florida Law Review, 2001)
This Article explores several advantages of incorporating into law various insights from behavioral biology about how and why the brain works as it does. In particular, the Article explores the ways in which those insights ...