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SECOND ANNUAL CONFERENCE
September 24-25, 1999
University of Pittsburgh School of Law, Pittsburgh, PA
Larry Frolik and Owen Jones, Co-Directors


PROGRAM

FRIDAY, September 24


Welcome


Dean David Herring (Univ. of Pittsburgh)
Larry Frolik (Univ. of Pittsburgh)
Owen Jones (Arizona State)


Towards An Evolutionary Forensic Psychiatry


Andy Thomson  (Center for the Study of Mind and Human Interaction)

Possible Neurobiological Bases for the Moral Educative Effect on the Law


Erin O'Hara (George Mason)

Some Evolutionary Thoughts About Wills and Trusts


Jeff Stake (Univ. of Indiana)


Luncheon Break

Emotions, Economics, Evolution, and Law

Owen Jones (Arizona State)

Children Placed at Risk: The Law and Biology of Child Sexual Abuse and Custody


Robin Fretwell Wilson (Univ. of SC)

Bankruptcy and Reciprocity: Or, Why Don't More People File for Bankruptcy?


Todd Zywicki (George Mason)


Keynote Address:

Twin Research Perspectives on Behavioral, Legal and Societal Issues



Nancy Segal (California State, Fullerton)
SATURDAY, September 25


Of Profligate Grasshoppers and Parsimonious Ants: Does Evolutionary Psychology Explain the Need for ERISA?



Larry Frolik (Univ. of Pittsburgh)

The Hidden Stakes of the Abortion Debate


Jason Weeden

Female Competition and Its Implications for Law


Cheryl Hanna (Vermont Law School)


Luncheon Break

Nonlinearity in Life and Law: Implications for Evolutionary Legal Theories


J.B. Ruhl (Florida State)

The Incoherence of "Free Will" Assumptions in Light of Evolutionary Selection



John Humbach (Pace)

The Neuroscience of Legal Education


Oliver Goodenough (Vermont Law School)


Open Forum and Concluding Remarks

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