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Sorting Guilty Minds
(New York University Law Review, 2011)
Because punishable guilt requires that bad thoughts accompany bad acts, the Model Penal Code (MPC) typically requires that jurors infer the past mental state of a criminal defendant. More specifically, jurors must sort ...
Introducing an Interdisciplinary Frontier to Judging, Emotion and Emotion Work
(Onati Socio-Legal Series, 2019)
This special issue of Oñati Socio-Legal Series, titled Judging, Emotion and Emotion Work, is the result of presentations and discussions during an interdisciplinary workshop at the International Institute for the Sociology ...
Economics, Behavioral Biology, and Law
(Supreme Court Economic Review, 2011)
The article first compares economics and behavioral biology, examining the assumptions, core concepts, methodological tenets, and emphases of the two fields. Building on this, the article then compares the applied ...
The Neural Correlates of Third-Party Punishment
(Neuron, 2008-12)
This article reports the discovery, from the first full-scale law and neuroscience experiment, of the brain activity underlying punishment decisions.
We used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to measure brain ...
Empirically Investigating Judicial Emotion
(Onati Socio-Legal Series, 2019)
The empirical study of judicial emotion has enormous but largely untapped potential to illuminate a previously underexplored aspect of judging, its processes, outputs, and impacts. After defining judicial emotion, this ...