Legal Commentary

Kolber blogging on the comparative nature of punishment
Professor Adam Kolber has this new post at PrawfsBlawg talking about his new article, "The Comparative Nature of Punishment" (previously blogged here). This new post concludes this way: The bottom line is this: If we seek to punish offenders in...

Kolber on Comparative Punishment
Adam J. Kolber (University of San Diego School of Law) has posted The Comparative Nature of Punishment on SSRN. Here is the abstract:Suppose we punished people by forced poverty. Instead of a traditional dollar fine, we would limit offenders' personal...

Kolber on the Subjective Experience of Punishment
Adam J. Kolber (Princeton University, Center for Human Values) has posted The Subjective Experience of Punishment on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Suppose two people commit the same crime and are sentenced to equal terms in the same prison facility...

Kolber on Split Brains
Adam Kolber (responding in part to a little prompting) has a post on Split Brains and Irrationality that replies to this post on Brains. Here is a taste of Kolber's post: "Is it possible that our chronic irrational behavior may...

Kolber Signs Off
At the stroke of midnight tonight, I may turn into a guest blawging pumpkin. So I send my thanks now to Dan, the other permaprawfs, and my fellow guest blawgers for lots of stimulating posts and conversations over the last two months...

"The Impact of Neuroscience on Health Law"
"The Impact of Neuroscience on Health Law" is now available for free download in the current issue of Neuroethics: Stacey A. Tovino1 (1) Drake University Law School, Des Moines, IA, USA Abstract Advances in neuroscience have implications for criminal law...