LAW AND NEUROSCIENCE
UNIVERSITY OF DENVER STURM COLLEGE OF LAW
FALL 2013
READING ASSIGNMENTS
Class 1 (Introduction):
None
Class 2 (Neuroscience Primer):
Jones, Schall & Shen, Chapter 7
Class 3 (Neuroscience Primer Cont.)
None
Class 4 (Neuroscience Primer Cont.):
None
Class 5 (Intro to Neuroscientific Evidence):
Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharm., 509 U.S. 579 (1993).
People v. Shreck, 22 P.3d 68 (Colo. 2001).
United States v. Semrau, 693 F.3d 510 (6th Cir. 2012).
People v. Weinstein, 156 Misc. 2d 34, 591 N.Y.S. 2d 715 (1992).
Jeffrey Rosen, Brain on the Stand, NYT (March11, 2007),
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A03E1DF1531F932A25750C0A9619C8B63&
pagewanted=1
Class 6 (Intro to Neuroscientific Evidence Cont.):
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Burns & Swerdlow, Right Orbitofrontal Tumor with Pedophilia Symptom and
Constructional Apraxia Sign, 60 ARCH. NEUROL. 437 (March 2003),
http://archneur.ama-assn.org/cgi/reprint/60/3/437.pdf
Brown & Murphy, Through a Scanner Darkly: Functional Neuroimaging a Evidence of a
Criminal Defendant’s Past Mental States, 62 STAN. L. REV. 1119 (2010),
http://legalworkshop.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Brown-Murphy.pdf
Class 7 (Pain):
JS&S, Chapter 12
Tracy & Mantyh, The Cerebral Signature for Pain Perception and Its Modulation, 55
NEURON 377 (2007)
HTTP://WWW.CELL.COM/NEURON/FULLTEXT/S0896-6273(07)00533-8
Class 8 (Memory):
JS&S, Chapter 13
Wagner & Greely, Detecting Individual Memories through the Neural Decoding of
Memory States and Past Experience, 107 PROC. NAT. ACAD. SCI. 9849 (2010),
HTTP://WWW.PNAS.ORG/CONTENT/107/21/9849.FULL
Perry v. New Hampshire, 132 S.Ct. 716 (2011).
Class 9 (Lie Detection):
JS&S, Chapter 15
Greely & Iles, Neuroscience Based Lie Detection: The Urgent Need for Regulation, 33
AM. J. LAW & MED. 377 (2007),
HTTP://HEINONLINEBACKUP.COM/HOL-CGIBIN/GET_PDF.CGI?HANDLE=HEIN.JOURNALS/AMLMED33&SECTION=22
United States v. Semrau, 2010WL6845092 (W.D. Tenn., June 1, 2010).
Class 10 (Responsibility)
JS&S, Chapter 5
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Greene & Cohen, For the Law, Neuroscience Changes Nothing and Everything, in LAW
AND THE BRAIN 207 (S. Zeki & O. Goodenough, eds., Oxford 2006),
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1693457/pdf/15590618.pdf
Morse, Brain Overclaim Syndrome and Criminal Responsibility: A Diagnostic Note, 3
OHIO ST. J. CRIM. L. 397 (2006),
http://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/osjcl3&id=1&collection=journals&index=
Robinson & Kurzban, Concordance and Conflict in Intuitions of Justice, 91 MINN. L.
REV. 1829 (2007),
HTTP://HEINONLINE.ORG/HOL/PAGE?HANDLE=HEIN.JOURNALS/MNLR91&DIV=53&G_SENT=1&CO
LLECTION=JOURNALS
Article on Shen et al., Sorting Guilty Minds, 86 N.Y.U. L. REV. 1306 (2011)
http://legalworkshop.org/2011/11/18/sorting-guilty-minds
Class 11 (Responsibility Cont.)
Buckholtz, et al., The Neural Correlates of Third-Party Punishment, 60 NEURON 930
(2008),
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0896627308008891
Krueger, et al., An fMRI Investigation into the Effects of Beliefs in Free Will on ThirdParty Punishment, forthcoming in SOCIAL, COGNITIVE & AFFECTIVE NEUROSCIENCE
Seabrook, Suffering Souls: The Search for the Roots of Psychopathy, THE NEW YORKER
(November 10, 2008)
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/11/10/081110fa_fact_seabrook
Class 12 (Adolescent Responsibility):
JS&S, Chapter 17
Roper v. Simmons, 543 U.S. 551 (2005)
Graham v. Florida, ___ U.S. ___, 130 S. Ct. 2011 (2010)
Miller v. Alabama, ___ U.S. ___, 132S. Ct. 2455 (2010).
Maroney, The False Promise of Adolescent Brain Science in Juvenile Justice, 85 NOTRE
DAME L. REV. 89 (2010),
HTTP://PAPERS.SSRN.COM/SOL3/PAPERS.CFM?ABSTRACT_ID=1405367
Class 13 (Addiction)
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JS&S, Chapter 18
Kalivas & Volkow, The Neural Basis of Addiction, 162 AM. J. PSYCHIATRY 1403 (2005),
HTTP://AJP.PSYCHIATRYONLINE.ORG/CGI/REPRINT/162/8/1403
Class 14 (Artificial Intelligence and Neuroprosthetics: Circling Back to Personhood):
JS&S, Chapters 19, 20 & 21
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