Law & Behavioral Biology Speaker Series
The Law and Behavioral Biology Speaker Series, directed by Owen Jones, is a resource to the larger Vanderbilt community, including faculty and students in law, biology, psychology, neuroscience, economics, anthropology, philosophy, among other fields. Invited speakers are experts on the biological dimensions of various matters relevant to law, such as choice and decision making, neuroeconomics, violence, mental illness, the sense of fairness and justice, morality, brain imaging, the use in law of scientific evidence, and the like.
2009 Conference - April 18, 2009
"Benign Beliefs, Destructive Desires: A Mental State Model of Forgiveness and Blame" - Liane Young, Post-doctoral Associate, Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences, MIT
"Mysteries of Morality" - Robert Kurzban, Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
"Moral Grammar and Intuitive Jurisprudence: A Formal Model of Unconscious Moral and Legal Knowledge," John Mikhail, Associate Professor, Georgetown University Law School
"Evolution, Biolegal History, and the Deep Structure of Law," Robin Bradley Kar, Professor of Jurisprudence and Law, Loyola Law School, April 18, 2009
"Outcome vs. Intent: Which Do We Punish, and Why?" Fiery Cushman, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Mind, Brain & Behavior Initiative, Harvard Law School
"The Neural Correlates of Third-Party Punishment," Joshua W. Buckholtz, Ph.D. Candidate, Neuroscience, Vanderbilt University
"Is Man a Wolf to Man? – Morality and the Social Behavior of Our Fellow Primates," Dr. Frans B. M. de Waal, C. H. Candler Professor, Emory University
2005 - Winter 2009
"Behavioral Biases and the Market Behavior of Non-Human Primates," Keith Chen, Associate Professor of Economics, Yale School of Management, January 20, 2009
"Neuroscience Meets the Criminal Justice System: Functional Brain Scans as Evidence in Capital Litigation," Helen Mayberg, Professor of Psychiatry Neurology, Emory University, October 2, 2008
"Brain Imaging and the Criminal Psychopath: Assessment, Recidivism, and Neurobiology, Kent Kiehl, Associate Professor of Psychology, University of New Mexico, September 19, 2008
"The Moral Brain: Its Structure and Quirks," Joshua Greene, Assistant Professor Department of Psychology, Harvard University, January 31, 2008
"Audience Effects on Moralistic Punishment, Robert Kurzban, Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, September 28, 2007
"Sexual Aversions, Moral Sentiments, and Altruism: The Evolution of Kin Detection in Humans," Debra Lieberman, Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Miami, January 29, 2007
"How the Brain Makes Up its Mind: On the Neural Basis of Deciding, Choosing, and Acting," Jeff Schall, Ingram Professor of Neuroscience, Vanderbilt University, April 7, 2006
"Fairness and Prosocial Behavior in Nonhuman Primates," Sarah Brosnan, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Emory University, March 17, 2006
"Close Encounters of the Adolescent Kind," Abigail Baird, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Vassar College, November 17, 2005
"Neuroeconomics: Decisions, Uncertainty, and the Brain, Paul Glimcher, Professor of Neural Science, Economics and Psychology, New York University, October 7, 2005
