The Weaver Distinguished Lecture series provides our community with foundational information at the intersection of law and neuroscience. The Weaver Family Program in Law, Brain Sciences, and Behavior sponsors interdisciplinary faculty research and projects that explore law and human behavior across a broad spectrum of life science and social science fields. Each year, the Weaver Distinguished Lecture Series organizes and hosts symposia and speakers featuring leading researchers working in law, brain sciences, and human behavior.
Nationally renowned neuroscientist BJ Casey delivered the second annual Weaver Distinguished Lecture in Law, Brain Sciences, and Behavior. Casey’s lecture titled “Explorations in Law and Neuroscience: The Adolescent Brain," highlighted unique vulnerabilities along with tremendous opportunities for growth and change in adolescents, clarify the current state of the science on typical behavioral and brain development during adolescence; and demonstrate that behavior, personality, and psychopathic traits are dynamic and show continued change beyond adolescence.
The inaugural lecture featured Anthony Wagner, the Lucie Stern Professor in the Social Sciences at Stanford University, and deputy director of the Stanford Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute. Professor Wagner’s research focuses on the cognitive neuroscience of memory and cognitive/executive control in young and older adults.