Law and Behavioral Biology Speaker Series"The Moral Brain: Its Structures & Quirks" - Joshua Greene, Assistant Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, studies moral decision making using behavioral methods coupled with neuroimaging (fMRI), focusing on the interplay between bemotional and cognitive processes in moral judgment. Co-sponsored by the Law & Behavioral Biology Speaker Series and the Law & Human Behavior Program - January 31, 2008 Audience Effects on Moralistic Punishment" - Lecture by Robert Kurzband, Assistant Professor in the Psychology Department at the University of Pennsylvania, earned his undergraduate degree in psychology at Cornell and a Master's and Ph.D. in psychology focusing on developmental and evolutionary psychology at the University of California-Santa Barbara. Part of the Law & Biology Speaker Series, presented in conjunction with Vanderbilt's Department of Psychology and The Centre for Integrative and Cognitive Neuroscience. September 28, 2007 “Sexual Aversions, Moral Sentiments, and Altruism: The Evolution of Kin Detection in Humans," by Debra Lieberman, University of Hawaii Department of Psychology - Janauary 29, 2007 Law & Psychology Speaker Series"Whose Eyes Are You Going to Believe? Scott v. Harris and the Perils of Cognitive Illiberalism," presentation by Dan Kahan, Yale Law School - March 10, 2008 "Victims, Closure, and the Sociology of Emotion," presentation by Susan Bandes, DePaul University School of Law - February 13, 2008 "Repairing Family Law," presentation by Claire Huntington, University of Colorado School of Law - January 31, 2008 Law & Positive Political Theory Speaker Series“Measuring Deviations From Expected Voting Patterns On Collegial Courts,” by David Klein, University of Virginia Department of Politics - November 16, 2008 “The Citizens’ Assembly Model," by John Ferejohn, Stanford University, Political Science Department, NYU Law School, and Hoover Institution - March 30, 2007 “Perspectives on the New Administrative Law," by Daniel B. Rodriguez, University of Texas School of Law, March 23, 2007 “Congress, The Court, and Judicial Review: Testing a Constitutional Separation of Powers Model," by Jeff Segal, SUNY Stony Brook Department of Political Science; Chad Westerland, University of Arizona Department of Political Science, and Stefanie Lindquist, Vanderbilt University Department of Political Science - February 16, 2007 “Judicial Vagueness Identified," by Georg Vanberg, University of North Carolina Department of Political Science - February 9, 2007 |
Law & Human Behavior ProgramThe Law & Human Behavior Program enables students to explore the relevance of current theories of human behavior on law through interdisciplinary courses that address a broad range of topics and by bringing speakers whose scholarship focuses on law and human behavior to the law school. The program also provides supplemental grants to Vanderbilt faculty to support research related to the intersection of law and human behavior. Law & Human Behavior Elective Courses Affiliated Faculty
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