Criminal Law

Florida Forensic Experts - Institute for Behavioral Sciences and the Law
The Institute for Behavioral Sciences and the Law (IBSL), a firm of forensic experts based in Fort Lauderdale, has just launched their new website.  At the Institute for Behavioral Sciences and the Law, they understand that the interface between psychology and the law is not always an easy alliance...

Why is intelligence like style
You either got it or you don't, baby! At least according to this column in the Chronicle of Higher Ed by a professor of behavioral and applied sciences at Texas A&M. Here's an excerpt: [Howard Gardner - author of Frames...

Super Behavioral Law and Economics
Levitt and Dubner have super-sized their hit. And in the legal academy, behavioral law and economics is entering the next generation. Avishalom Tor, at the law faculty of Haifa University, organized this week a fantastic and intense conference, Behavioral Analysis of Law: Markets, Institutions, and Contracts...

next session at Rocky Mountain . . .
Carrie Sperling (Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University) spoke on "Using Psychology to Inform What We Teach Students to Write." She discussed research in the behavioral sciences and how it should influence how we think about writing...

Del Mar on Marmor on Social Conventions
Maksymilian T. Del Mar (Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Lausanne) has posted Marmor's Social Conventions: The Limits of Practical Reason (Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Forthcoming) on SSRN...

"The Methodology of the Behavioral Analysis of Law"
The following has been posted to SSRN: "The Methodology of the Behavioral Analysis of Law" Haifa Law Review, Vol. 4, p. 237, 2008 AVISHALOM TOR, University of Haifa - Faculty of LawThis article examines the behavioral analysis of law, meaning...

Rightwing Extremism
Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment

Food Dyes Linked to Behavioral Problems
Ban Urged