Ethics

Law and Neuroscience Student Group

By Adam Kolber

A student group dedicated to law and neuroscience has launched at the University of Pennsylvania and the group is reaching out to other law students as well.  Martha Farah writes in with some details:

The Law and Brain Student Group was started by Penn Law second-year student Ben Bumann, who has already engaged several of his fellow students at Penn and is now reaching out to interested students at other law schools.

There are many projects, centers and conferences on law and the brain, but these are aimed primarily at professionals -- legal scholars, lawyers and judges.  It's surprising that none of these programs have made a concerted effort to engage students because, from what I've seen, there is a huge amount of interest in neuroscience among law students.  So I'm delighted that Ben has taken up this challenge!

So far the Law and Brain Student Group has planned a series of monthly talks, to take place at Penn in the spring semester of 2010.  We'll kick the semester off with a talk by Hank Greely of Stanford Law School on January 14th, followed by a reception where students can chat with the speaker and each other.  Law students from outside of Penn are welcome to attend (but please RSVP to lawgroup@neuroethics.upenn.edu).  See our website for more details: http://www.neuroethics.upenn.edu/.

Full post as published by Neuroethics and Law on December 09, 2009 (boomark / email).