Dear SEAL Members:

 

As part of SEAL's continuing effort to keep you informed of developments of potential linterest, you will below find information on the following subjects (to which you can quickly hyperlink by clicking on the subject):

1. Creation of Law and Neuroscience Project – MacArthur Foundation;
2. Recent Publications;
3. Worth Reading (Some Old – Some New);
4. Symposium on Law and Brain Imaging;
5. Working Papers;
6. Useful Links;
7. Podcast;
8. Upcoming Conferences;
9. Recent Conferences;
10. Blogs;
11. Job Postings;
12. Membership Dues.

 

As usual, the links, journals, etc., have been added to the SEAL website at http://www.sealsite.org/ — a source for your research.  And, as usual, if you have similar materials to recommend to the membership, just send me an e-mail at owen.jones@vanderbilt.edu. 

 

Best regards,

Owen Jones

Director, SEAL 

 

 

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1) Creation of Law and Neuroscience Project – MacArthur Foundation

 

The MacArthur Foundation has awarded a $10,000,000 grant to a group of legal scholars, neuroscientists, and philosophers to explore the potential utilities of neuroscience to the criminal law.  Many SEAL members are involved, including Owen Jones (who will co-direct the Research Network on Decision Making), Erin O’Hara, Jeff Schall, Kevin McCabe, Amy Wax.

 

Michael Gazzaniga is overall Project Director, assisted by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong as Co-Director.  Sandra Day O’Connor is honorary Chair.  You can learn more about the Project here:  http://www.lawandneuroscienceproject.org/Neurolaw%20Press%20ReleaseFINAL.pdf   and http://www.lawandneuroscienceproject.org/neurolaw%20fact%20sheet%20QandA.pdf   The official website (which will be expanded to include many law/neuroscience resources) appears here:  http://www.lawandneuroscienceproject.org/index.html

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2) Recent Publications

 

Buss, D.M. (2007).  Evolutionary Psychology:  The New Science of the Mind (3rd Ed.).  Contains over 400 new references.  Highlights of the Third Edition: include:  Expanded coverage of issues in clinical and psychopathology; Expanded coverage of culture and learning; New coverage of testosterone and human mating; New coverage of work on parenting and kinship adaptations; Expanded coverage of fMRI and other neuroscience findings; New work on adaptations linked with ovulation; New section on the evolution of intelligence; Expanded discussion of domain-specific and domain-general mechanisms; Expanded coverage of individual differences.   http://www.amazon.com/Evolutionary-Psychology-New-Science-Mind/dp/0205483380/ref=ed_oe_h/102-5145576-9560159?ie=UTF8&qid=1061939192&sr=1-2

 

Saad, Gad, The Evolutionary Bases of Consumption, Lawrence Erlbaum (2007).

 

Russell Korobkin, Stem Cell Century: Law and Policy for a Breakthrough Technology, (2007).  Stem Cell Century describes and critically analyzes a broad range of legal, ethical and policy issues arising from stem cell research, particularly timely now in light of recent scientific breakthroughs.  www.stemcellcentury.com

  

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3) Worth Reading (Some Old, Some New)

 

Axelrod, Robert, The Evolution of Cooperation (1984)

 

Barton, N.H., et al., Evolution.  Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press (2007), 850 pp. 

 

Bloom, P. & Weisberg, D. S., "Childhood origins of adult resistance to science", published in Science, May 18, 2007.

 

Browne, Kingsley R., Sex, Power, and Dominance: The Evolutionary Psychology of Sexual Harassment, 27 Managerial and Decision Economics 145 (2006).

 

Browne, Kingsley R., Evolved Sex Differences and Occupational Segregation, 27 Journal of Organizational Behavior 143 (2006).

 

Browne, Kingsley R., Women in Science: Biological Factors Should Not Be Ignored, 11(3) Cardozo Women’s Law Journal 509 (2005).

 

Browne, Kingsley R., Biology at Work: Rethinking Sexual Equality (2002).

 

Browne, Kingsley R., Divided Labours: An Evolutionary View of Women at Work (1998).

 

Burns, J., Descent of Madness: Evolutionary Origins of Psychosis and the Social Brain.  Routledge (2007), 288 pp.  ISBN: 1-58391-742-X.

 

Campbell, C.J., et al., (Eds.), Primates in Perspective, Oxford University Press (2006), 736 pp.  ISBN: 0-195-17133-0.

 

Coe, Kathryn & Palmer, Craig T., The Words of Our Ancestors: Kenship, Tradition, and Moral Codes, 16 World Cultures 2 (2007).

 

De Block, Andreas & Du Laing, Bart, "Paving the Way for an Evolutionary Social Constructivism",  http://ssrn.com/abstract=1087524  

De Waal, Frans, Scientists Find the Beginnings of Morality in Primate Behavior, The New York Times (March 20, 2007). 

http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F20611FE3C540C738EDDAA0894DF404482

 

Du Laing, Bart, "Dual Inheritance Theory, Contract Law, and Institutional Change - Towards the Co-Evolution of Behavior and Institutions", http://ssrn.com/abstract=1090143  

 

Du Laing, Bart, "Equality in Exchange Revisited - from an Evolutionary (Genetic and Cultural) Point of View", (July 30, 2007). Available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=1030395

 

Epstein, Richard, The Varieties of Self-Interest, 8 Social Phil. & Pol. 102 (1990).

 

Experimental Law and Economics: 24th International Seminar on the New Institutional Economics June 21-24, 2006, Bad Meinberg, Germany, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics JITE, Vol. 163, No. 1. (March 2007), pp. 1-4:  http://ideas.repec.org/s/mhr/jinste.html

 

Forgas, J.P., et al., (Eds.), The Evolution of the Social Mind:  Evolutionary Psychology and Social Cognition.  Psychology Press (2007), 344 pp, ISBN: 1-84169-458-4.

 

Gintis, Herbert, A Framework for the Unification of the Behavioral Sciences, 30 Behavioral and Brain Sciences 1 (Feb 2007).

 

Herring, David J., Legal Scholarship, Humility, and the Scientific Method, 25 Quinnipiac Law Review 867 (2007)

Hill, Claire A. & O’Hara, Erin Ann, A Cognitive Theory of Trust, 84 Washington University Law Review 1717 (2006) http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=869423

Jones, Dan, The Depths of Disgust, 447 Nature 768 (14 June 2007).

 

Joyce, R., The Evolution of Morality.  MIT Press (2007), 288 pp.  ISBN: 0-262-60072-2.

 

Knight, Chris, Language Co-Evolved with the Rule of Law (presented at Evolution of Language Sixth International Conference in Rome, 12-15 April 2006) http://homepages.uel.ac.uk/C.Knight/Knight%20%28Rome%29%20Rule%20of%20Law.pdf.

Knight, Mike & Rupp, Gabriel, A Place to Stand, a review of Buss, David M. (Ed.), The of Evolutionary Psychology, in 50 (44) PsycCRITIQUES (2005): http://law.vanderbilt.edu/seal/resources/documents/PsycCRITIQUES-APlacetoStand.pdf

 

Mai, Larry L., Owl, Marcus Young, & Kersting, M. Patricia, The Cambridge Dictionary of Human Biology and Evolution (Hardcover).  http://www.amazon.com/Cambridge-Dictionary-Human-Biology-Evolution/dp/0521662508/ref=sr_1_1/103-3374165-6123051?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1185717695&sr=1-1

 

Murphy, N., & Stoeger, W.R. (Eds.), Evolution and Emergence:  Systems, Organisms, Persons.  Oxford University Press (2007), 392 pp.  ISBN:  0-19-920471-3.

 

Nelson, C.A., de Haan, M., & Thomas, K.M. (2006).  Neuroscience and Cognitive Development: The Role of Experience and the Developing Brain. http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0471745863.html  New York: Wiley.

 

Niederle, Uta-Maria, From Possession to Property: Preferences and the Role of Culture*, in: Finch, John and Orillard, Magali (eds.): Complexity and the Economy. Implications for Economic Policy, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2005, p. 77-104.

 

Niederle,Uta-Maria,  Preferences in Social Interactions and their Influence on Institutions, in Schubert, Christian and Georg v. Wangenheim (eds.) (2006): Evolution and Design of Institutions, London: Routledge, p. 79-99.

 

Odling-Smee F.J., Laland K.N. & Feldman M.W. (2003). Niche Construction: The Neglected Process in Evolution. Monographs in Population Biology. 37. Princeton University Press.

 

Prehn, Kristin, Wartenburger, Isabell, Mériau, Katja, Scheibe, Christina, Goodenough, Oliver R., Villringer, Arno, van der Meer, Elke, & Heekeren, Hauke R., Individual Differences in Moral Judgment Competence Influence Neural Correlates of Socio-normative Judgments, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Advance Access published online (December 2007). http://scan.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/nsm037

 

Prentice, Robert A., “Law &” Gratuitous Promises, Vol. 2007 University of Illinois Law Review 881 (2007).

 

Robinson, Paul H. & Kurzban, Robert, Concordance and Conflict in Intuitions of Justice, 91 Minn. L. Rev. 1829 (2007).

 

Rodogno, Raffaele, A review of Zeki, Semir & Goodenough, Oliver (Eds.) Law & The Brain, 11 (29) Metapsychology (July 17, 2007):  http://mentalhelp.net/books/books.php?type=de&id=3738

 

Rubin, Paul H. (ed.), The Evolution of Efficient Common Law (Economic Approaches to Law Series) (2007). http://www.amazon.com/Evolution-Efficient-Common-Economic-Approaches/dp/1845424425/ref=sr_1_2/002-6960407-6586468?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1187390596&sr=1-2

 

Saad, Gad, (2007). The Evolutionary Bases of Consumption, Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

 

Smits, Jan M., "The Harmonisation of Private Law in Europe: Some Insights from Evolutionary Theory." Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law, Vol. 31, pp. 79-99, 2002.  Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=795145

 

Strickberger, M.W., Evolution (4th edition), Jones & Bartlett Publishers (2008), 700 pp. ISBN: 0-7637-0066-5.

 

Vermuele, Adrian, Common Law Constitutionalism and the Limits of Reason, 107 Columbia Law Review 1482 (2007).

             

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4)  Symposium on Law and Brain Imaging

 

Appears in:  Am J. L. Medicine on Brain Imaging and the Law vol 33, number 2&3

 

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5)  Working Papers

 

Goodenough, Oliver R., Vermont Law Review Summer, 2006 Essay, Cultural Replication Theory and Law: Proximate Mechanisms Make a Difference, 30 Vt. L. Rev. 989 (2006).

 

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6)  Useful Links

 

The Official Richard Dawkins Website Links: General Links | Links for Children, Parents, and Teachers:  <http://richarddawkins.net/links>.

             

Richard Dawkins: software & biomorphs <http://www.bio.net/bionet/mm/mol-evol/1995-November/003745.html>

Journal of Cultural and Evolutionary Psychology <http://www.akademiai.com/content/119712/>

 

Researchers in Europe have begun organizing a AEuropean Human Behavior and Evolution Society.@  See www.ehbes.com.

 

Robert Trivers:  article about http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/trivers04/trivers04_index.html

 

Trends in Ecology and Evolution  <http://www.trends.com/tree/default.htm>

 

Henry Stewart Talks:  Evolution and Medicine (Seminar style talks by leading world experts) http://www.hstalks.com/evomed/

 

ISHE has a new moderated listserv "to facilitate communications among persons interested in human ethology."  Numerous options available.  To join, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/human-ethology

 

The on-line journal of Evolutionary Psychology has articles available here: www.epjournal.net

 

Journal Of Law, Cognitive Science And Artificial Intelligence:  http://www.i-lex.it/

 

New  Petrie-Flom Center Website:   http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/petrie-flom.  The website provides comprehensive information about the Center’s fellowship and research programs, and Center workshops, conferences and events. It is also intended to serve as a hub of resources and information on health law policy and bioethics research at Harvard and beyond. We hope that you find it useful and look forward to your comments and suggestions.   In addition, we would like to bring your attention to the current call for applications for the 2008-2010 Academic Fellowship Program:  http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/petrie-flom/fellowship_program/index.html. These two-year Academic Fellowships are designed for those interested in doing serious academic work in health law policy, biotechnology, and bioethics. They carry a $60,000 annual stipend. Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis between October 15 and November 16, 2007.

 

The Open Behavioral Science Journal:  http://www.bentham.org/open/tobsj/

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7)  Podcast

 

Evolution of dispute systems - podcast with Kevin Padian.  International Dispute Negotiation: an interview with Kevin Padian on dispute resolution among dinosaurs, evolution of dispute systems among mammals, and a bit on his role in the Kitzmiller trial.  CPR released this episode yesterday to coincide with the Nova program about Kitzmiller, Judgment Day.  <http://www.cpradr.org/audio1.asp>

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8) Upcoming Conferences

 

SEAL: 10th Annual Scholarship Conference.  17-18 April 2009

The European Human Behaviour & Evolution Conference University of Montpellier in Montpellier, France 2 - 4 April 2008.  See their website:  http://www.ehbes.com

NorthEastern Evolutionary Psychology Society (NEEPS) Conference 2-4 May 2008 – Southern New Hampshire University in Manchester, NH.  Information available at:  http://www2.newpaltz.edu/~geherg/neeps/

HBES 2008 will take place 4- 8 June 2008 in Kyoto, Japan at Kyoto University.  The Conference will begin with a welcome reception on Wednesday, June 4, 2008, and finish at noon on Sunday, June 8.  Here's the URL...http://beep.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~hbes2008/index.htm for further information.

EPISTEME: A Journal of Social Epistemology http://www.episteme.us.com will hold its fifth annual conference at Dartmouth College on June 20-21, 2008.  The focus of this 2008 Conference:  is Law and Evidence.  Confirmed participants include: Susan Haack (University of Miami), Larry Laudan (National Autonomous University of Mexico), Jennifer Mnookin (UCLA), Dale Nance (Case Western Reserve), Michael Saks (Arizona State University), Frederick Schauer (Harvard University), Edward Stein (Cardozo School of Law), and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (Dartmouth College).   Conference organizers are: Frederick Schauer and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong

 

Neuroethics Society: First Annual Meeting (2008).  The Neuroethics Society is delighted to announce the time and place of its first annual meeting:  November 13-14, 2008, in Washington, DC, at the headquarters of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.  Do you have an event to list in the calendar and newsletter?  Email http://www.neuroethicssociety.org/news/meetings.html by 12/6/07.

Biennial Congress of the International Society for Human Ethology (ISHE08) 13-17 July 2008 – University of Bologna, Italy (see details below and at www.ISHE08.org) CALL FOR PAPERS, For an Invited Paper Session, International Society for Human Ethology (ISHE http://www.ishe.org/), Biennial Meeting, Bologna, Italy, 14 – 18 July, 2008.

The Biology of Religious Behavior: A Human Ethology Perspective on Religion.  In the past several years there have been a number of books written on the evolution of religion. See for example Boyer 2001, Atran 2002, Wilson 2003, Dennett 2006 and Dawkins 2006. The topic is quite timely, given the current socio-political divisions in the world on the basis of religion. In January of 2007, there was a one week, international conference on the Evolution of Religion. See http://www.evolutionofreligion.org/index.php. The lectures from this conference are scheduled to be released in a book in July of 2007. Each of the above books makes or will make a valuable contribution to understanding the evolution of religion. Suggestions for persons interested in submitting a paper for consideration for The Biology of Religious Behavior: Religion from the Perspective of Human Ethology, International Society for Human Ethology (ISHE, http://www.ishe.org/), biennial meeting, Bologna, Italy, 14 - 18 July 2008.  This is a supplement to the initial Call for Papers, which can be found at http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/human-ethology/message/1045

4th European Conference on Behavioural Biology (ECBB 2008) 18 - 20 July 2008 – Dijon, France.  Plenary speakers include Redouan Bshary (Neuchâtel), Louis Lefebvre (Montréal) and Robert Poulin (Otago). For more information see:  http://www.u-bourgogne.fr/ECBB2008/

 

 

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9) Recent Conferences

 

A Scholarly Debate on the Motion: “Markets are Moral” Conducted in the style of Oxford Student Union Rules November 27, 2007, 4:30-5:45 pm NYU Stern School of Business 44 West 4th Street, Kaufman Management Center, Room 1-70 As part of a Research Program on Free Enterprise: Values in Action organized by the Gruter Institute For Law and Behavioral Research Presented in conjunction with NYU Stern School of Business, Markets Ethics & Law Program With support from The John Templeton Foundation Moderated by Professor Oliver Goodenough, Vermont Law School

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10) Blogs

 

New Blog for Neuroethics Society.  Dr. Emily Murphy is blog master -- ermurphy@stanford.edu.  All blog entries will be attributed to their author, and only Members of the Society may post to the blog.

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11) Job Postings

Amherst College seeks a one year visiting assistant professor in the field of law and science during the 2008-2009 academic year. This is a half-time appointment with a teaching load of one course per semester. We welcome inquiries from candidates with expertise in the social, historical, or philosophical studies of science and technology, as well as from scientists or legal scholars with research interests in the role of science in law or the role of law in science. We are interested, among other things, in how knowledge practices in law are shaped by science and in the ways knowledge practices in the sciences are shaped by law. In addition, we are interested in how scientific institutions incorporate, respond to, and resist the external constraints imposed by law. Examples of courses that might be taught include: DNA: Scientific Revolution and Its Legal Impact; Biology and the Law: The Endangered Species Act; The Science of Forensics; Evidentiary Processes in Law and Science; Intellectual Property, Biotechnology, and Society; and Privacy and Property in the Internet Age.  Candidates should submit a letter of application explaining the relation of their research and teaching interests to this position, a curriculum vitae, sample syllabi for undergraduate courses, and a sample of written work (an article or chapter, e.g.). Candidates should also arrange for three letters of recommendation to be sent directly to the Search Committee. All application materials should be sent to Professor John W. Servos, Search Committee in Law and Science, Department of History, Amherst College, Amherst MA 01002. We will begin reviewing applications on March 1, 2008. Amherst College is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer. Women and members of minority groups are encouraged to apply.

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12) Membership Dues

It is time once again to pay your annual dues – now for calendar year 2008.  You can do so from the main page of http://www.sealsite.org  We thank you in advance for your dues payment. 

 

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