Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Works: Recent submissions
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(Texas Law Review, 2019)The focal point of the modern trial is the witness. Witnesses are the source of observations, lay and expert opinions, authentication, as well as the conduit through which documentary, physical, and scientific evidence is ...
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(Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law, 2015)A panel discussion on the topic of cyberwar. Broadcast on January 30, 2014. Speakers include: Peter Singer (Director of the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence, Brookings Institution); Michael Newton (Professor ...
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(Iowa Law Review, 2020)The use of Artificial Intelligence ("AI") machines using deep learning neural networks to create material that facially looks like it should be protected by copyright is growing exponentially. From articles in national ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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, ...
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(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 ...
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(Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2014)Neuroscientific evidence is increasingly being offered in court cases. Consequently, the legal system needs neuroscientists to act as expert witnesses who can explain the limitations and interpretations of neuroscientific ...
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(Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2017-03-21)Criminal convictions require proof that a prohibited act was performed in a statutorily specified mental state. Different legal consequences, including greater punishments, are mandated for those who act in a state of ...
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(Journal of Legal Education, 2017)Students who leave their JD program before graduation leave empty handed, without an additional degree or other credential indicating that their law school studies had any professional, educational, or marketable value. ...
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(Pepperdine Law Review, 2015)This Article, written for a symposium on national security, describes and analyzes standing doctrine as it applies to covert government surveillance, focusing on practices thought to be conducted by the National Security ...
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(Center for American Progress, 2014)Since the 2008 financial crisis, the problem of financial institutions being "too big to fail," or TBTF, has been front and center in the public debate over the reform and regulation of the financial industry. Commentators ...
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(George Washington Law Review, 1985)The occasionally controversial consequences of the insanity defense, epitomized by John Hinckley's acquittal, have recently spawned a rash of legislative attempts to prevent similar outcomes in future cases. Three states ...
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(Denver Law Review, 2019)Concerns with medical malpractice liability costs have been a principal factor leading states to adopt a series of tort liability reforms. Medical malpractice premiums have been declining, creating less of a cost-based ...
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(William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal, 2011)I was a student in Carol Rose's property course twelve years ago, and she was the first law professor whose scholarship I sought out and read. Going into my IL spring semester, if I had to guess how I would spend my ...
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(Human Rights, 2019)There is a long history of the intersection of immigration, race, and civil rights in America. Immigration laws have operated in a manner to maintain homogeneity to the exclusion of immigrants of color. Immigration laws ...
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(New York University Law Review, 2006)This Article argues that the Fifth Amendment's Takings Clause should apply differently to local governments than to higher levels of government. The Takings Clause is at the heart an increasingly contentious property rights ...
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(Texas A&M Law Review, 2019)The stock image of a plea negotiation in a criminal case depicts two lawyers in frayed business suits, meeting one-on-one in a dim corner of a courtroom lobby. The defendant is somewhere nearby, ready to receive information ...