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UNIVERSITY PROGRAMS ON LAW AND NEUROSCIENCE:
Baylor College of Medicine: Initiative on Neuroscience and Law
Baylor College of Medicine’s Initiative on Neuroscience and Law addresses how new
discoveries in neuroscience should navigate the way we make laws, punish
criminals, and develop rehabilitation. The project brings together a unique
collaboration of neurobiologists, legal scholars, ethicists, medical humanists, and
policy makers, with the goal of running experiments that will result in modern,
evidence-based policy.
Brooklyn Law School Center for Health, Science & Public Policy
The Center for Health, Science and Public Policy offers students the opportunity to
study health law in a collaborative environment. Our students are exposed to a rich
and rigorous curriculum, which provides them with the substantive knowledge and
practical skills necessary to become excellent lawyers in fields related to health and
science. Check out the Neuroethics and Law Blog by Adam Kolber
Duke University Kenan Institute for Ethics
We promote ethical reflection and engagement through our research, education, and
practice in three core areas: Moral Education & Decision-Making, Organizational
Ethics, and Civic & Global Ethics. Current projects include work on civic engagement,
workplace culture, and immigration policy in the U.S. and Europe.
The Institute works across the university as one of Duke’s signature
initiatives rather than being housed in any specific school or department. We
exemplify Duke’s commitment to interdisciplinary teaching and research,
internationalization, and knowledge in the service of society.
Emory University Center for Ethics and Neuroethics Program
The Neuroethics Program is an interdisciplinary, inter-departmental group of
scholars interested in the intersection of neuroscience, ethics, and society. The
Program aims to become a center of excellence that informs responsible
applications of neuroscience in research, the clinic, and society as well as engages
and activates our community in neuroethics discourse.
The Neuroethics Program Blog serves as an interactive discussion and critique of
these issues.
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George Mason University Center for Advancing Correctional Excellence
ACE! conducts collaborative and creative research to assist policy makers and
correctional practitioners with using evidence-based practices and treatments. We
work with our partners in crafting new policies focused on preventing criminal
behavior instead of simply responding to it.
Harvard University Project on Law and Mind Sciences
This is a resource for scholars, students, and citizens with an interest in
understanding the implications of social psychology and other related mind sciences
for law and policy. You can also visit our popular and award-winning blog, The
Situationist.
Harvard Initiative on Law and Philosophy
Working at the intersection of law and philosophy, Harvard University has been
home, for more than a century, to some of the greatest theorists in the history of the
American Academy.
New York University Center for Research and Crime Justice
The Center for Research in Crime and Justice stimulates and promotes criminal
justice research at New York University School of Law and aims to make the Law
School a regional, national and international base for the study and debate of
criminal justice policy. The Center strives to create opportunities for students to
engage in collaborative research projects.
Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law
The Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law is a nonpartisan public policy and law institute that focuses on the fundamental issues of
democracy and justice. Our work ranges from voting rights to campaign finance
reform, from racial justice in criminal law to Constitutional protection in the fight
against terrorism. A singular institution — part think tank, part public interest law
firm, part advocacy group — the Brennan Center combines scholarship, legislative
and legal advocacy, and communications to win meaningful, measurable change in
the public sector.
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University of Pennsylvania – Center for Neuroscience and Society
Our faculty played a key role in the founding of the Neuroethics Society and
continue to hold positions on its governing board. We also serve on the editorial
boards of the journals Neuroethics and AJOB-Neuroscience, and provide the Journal
of Cognitive Neuroscience with its Associate Editor for Neuroethics.
For a complete list of collaborators for this and other programs, click here:
Rutgers Law School Camden Institute of Law and Philosophy
The primary purpose of the Institute is to further the mission of the Law School and
Rutgers University, and in particular to advance knowledge and understanding of
philosophically significant legal topics, both in normative legal theory and in
analytical jurisprudence.
Stanford University Center for Biomedical Ethics
As a research team, we are devoted to the new field of neuroethics, with an initial
focus on issues at the intersection of medical imaging and biomedical ethics. These
include ethical, social, and legal challenges presented by advanced neurofunctional
imaging capabilities, the emergence of cognitive enhancement neurotechnologies
and pharmacology, self-referral to health care and imaging services, incidental
findings, and fetal MRI. New initiatives are underway in regenerative medicine,
neurogenetics and pediatric neuroethics.
Law and Neuroscience at Vanderbilt University
Law and Neuroscience at Vanderbilt, headquarters of the MacArthur Foundation
Research Network on Law and Neuroscience (see below), is a leading institution for
the study of law and neuroscience. Whether enrolled in law, neuroscience,
psychology, or the nation’s first joint JD/PhD program in Law & Neuroscience,
students at Vanderbilt have access to unparalleled opportunities at the
law/neuroscience intersection. Coursework provides introductions and firm
foundations. Faculty afford students opportunities to customize independent
studies, to contribute to brain-scanning experimental design and research, and to
assist in preparing and revising the first Law & Neuroscience coursebook
(forthcoming 2014). This page serves as a gateway to learning more about
Vanderbilt's central role in the emerging, exciting, and important new field of Law &
Neuroscience.
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Vanderbilt University MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Law and
Neuroscience
The Research Network on Law and Neuroscience, supported by the John D. and
Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, addresses a focused set of closely-related
problems at the intersection of neuroscience and criminal justice: 1) determining
the law-relevant mental states of defendants and witnesses; 2) assessing a
defendant’s capacity for self-regulating his behavior; and 3) assessing whether, and
if so how, neuroscientific evidence should be admitted and evaluated in individual
cases.
Yale University Liman Public Interest Program
The Arthur Liman Public Interest Program supports the work of Yale law students
and Yale law school graduates through Liman Fellowships as well as undergraduate
students from Yale College, Barnard College, Brown University, Harvard University,
Princeton University and Spelman College, all of whom work to respond to problems
of inequality and to improve access to justice.
STUDENT GROUPS
Harvard University Student Association for Law and Mind Sciences
University of Pennsylvania, Center for Neuroscience and Society, Law and Brain
Student Group
SIGNAL: Stanford University Interdisciplinary Group in Neuroscience and Law
University of Southern California Neuroscience and Law Society
Vanderbilt Interdepartmental Group in Law and Neuroscience
INTERNATIONAL LAW AND NEUROSCIENCE RESOURCES
British Neuroscience Association
European Association for Neuroscience and Law (EANL)
European Center for Law, Science and New Technologies
French Neurolaw
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International Neurolaw
Institutes of Neuroscience, Mental Health, and Addiction (Canada)
National Core for Neuroethics, University of British Columbia
NeuroEthics Women Leaders
Oxford Centre for Neuroethics, University of Oxford
Swiss Network of Neuroscience, Ethics and Law (SNNEL)
University of Tübingen, Centre for Integrative Neuroscience
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