Symposium Schedule
Neuroscience, Law and Government Symposium Schedule 2008


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Symposium Schedule

Thursday, Sept. 25
2 and 3 p.m.   Tours of the Archives of the History of American Psychology

4:30 p.m.        Welcome Reception

6 p.m.              Keynote Speaker
Henry T. Greely, Deane F. and Kate Edelman Johnson Professor of Law, Stanford Law School
Law and the Revolution in Neurosciences: An Early Look Across the Field

Friday, Sept. 26
7:30 a.m.         Continental Breakfast and Registration

8:20 a.m.         Panel 1: Neuroimaging, Deception and Neuroskepticism
Dr. Steven J. Laken, President and CEO, Cephos Corp.
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Lie Detection and Examples from Real World Testing
Dr. Daniel D. Langleben, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania Medical School
Functional Brain Imaging for the Detection of Deception and Concealed Information
Professor Jonathan H. Marks, Bioethics, Humanity and Law, Penn State
University National Security, Neuroskepticism, and “Neural Rights”
Moderator: The Honorable Jed S. Rakoff, United States District Court, Southern District of New York

9:50 a.m.         Break

10 a.m.                        Panel 2: Applied Neuroscience
Professor Nita Farahany, Vanderbilt University Law School
Law, Neuroscience, and Behavioral Morality
Professor Christian M. Halliburton, Seattle University School of Law
How Privacy Killed Katz: A Tale of Cognitive Freedom and the Property of Personhood as Fourth Amendment Norm
Professor Michael L. Perlin, New York Law
“His Brain Has Been Mismanaged with Great Skill”: How Will Jurors Respond to Neuroimaging Testimony in Insanity Defense Cases?
Moderator:  Professor Michael D. Guttentag, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles

12:00 p.m.      Lunch

1:15 p.m.        Panel 3: Neuroscience in the Tribunal
Dr. Dov Fox, Lecturer in Bioethics and Law, Yale University
Electroencephalography and the “The Spirit and History of the Fifth Amendment”: Forensic Neuroscience and the Testimonial/Physical Distinction
Professor Jane Campbell Moriarty, The University of Akron School of Law
Neuroimages of Deception: Evaluating Reliability from Daubert to Guantanamo
Professor Julie Seaman, Emory Law School
fMRI Lie Detection and Jury Nullification: Opening the Black Box of the Mind to Open the Black Box of the Jury Room.
Moderator: Professor Joëlle Anne Moreno, Florida International University School of Law

2:45 p.m.        Break

3 p.m.              Panel 4: Neuroscience, Gender and Capital Cases
Professor Jay Aronson, Department of History, Carnegie Mellon University
Brain Imaging, Culpability, and the Juvenile Death Penalty
Professor O. C. Snead, Notre Dame Law School
Neuorimaging and the “Complexity” of Capital Punishment
Professor Stacey Tovino, Drake University Law School
Neuroscience, Gender, and the Law
Moderator: Elizabeth A. Reilly, Associate Dean and C. Blake McDowell Professor of Law, The University of Akron School of Law


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