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The Origins of Shared Intuitions of Justice
(Vanderbilt Law Review, 2007)
Contrary to the common wisdom among criminal law scholars, empirical evidence reveals that people's intuitions of justice are often specific, nuanced, and widely shared. Indeed, with regard to the core harms and evils to ...
Brain Imaging for Legal Thinkers: A Guide for the Perplexed
(Stanford Technology Law Review, 2009)
It has become increasingly common for brain images to be proffered as evidence in criminal and civil litigation. This Article - the collaborative product of scholars in law and neuroscience - provides three things.
First, ...
Law, Evolution, and the Brain: Applications and Open Questions
(2004)
This essay discusses several issues at the intersection of law and brain science. If focuses principally on ways in which an improved understanding of how evolutionary processes affect brain function and human behavior may ...
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 ...
Law and Behavioral Biology
(Columbia Law Review, 2005)
Society uses law to encourage people to behave differently than they would behave in the absence of law. This fundamental purpose makes law highly dependent on sound understandings of the multiple causes of human behavior. ...
Law and the Biology of Rape
(Hastings Women's Law Journal, 2000)
This Article serves as a sequel to a previous Article: Sex, Culture, and the Biology of Rape: Toward Explanation and Prevention, 87 Cal. L. Rev. 827 (1999). Part I briefly considers the threshold question: why consider the ...
The Evolution of Irrationality
(Jurimetrics, 2001)
The place of the rational actor model in the analysis of individual and social behavior relevant to law remains unresolved. In recent years, scholars have sought frameworks to explain: a) disjunctions between seemingly ...
Endowment Effects in Chimpanzees
(Current Biology, 2007)
Human behavior is not always consistent with standard rational choice predictions. The much-investigated variety of apparent deviations from rational choice predictions provides a promising arena for the merger of economics ...
Climate Change: The China Problem
(Southern California Law Review, 2008)
The central problem confronting climate change scholars and policymakers is how to create incentives for China and the United States to make prompt, large emissions reductions. China recently surpassed the United States ...