NEUROJURISPRUDENCE
Neurojurisprudence is the study of legal
philosophy using techniques of evolutionary biology, evolutionary psychology,
neuroscience, and related fields.
Charles Darwin
Law & Human Behavior:
A Study in Behavioral Biology, Neuroscience, and the Law by Scott
Fruehwald (Vandeplas Publishing 2011) (Amazon)
(Barnes &
Noble) (New)

Scott Fruehwald's Articles:
Evolutionary Feminism, SSRN
Power in Contemporary Legal Thought: Postmodernism
versus Behavioral Biology, SSRN
When Did Ignorance Become a Point of View?:
Postmodern Legal Thought and Behavioral Biology, SSRN
A Biological Basis of Rights, Southern California
Interdisciplinary Journal, SSRN
Reciprocal Altruism as the Basis of Contract,
University of Louisville Law Review, SSRN
Postmodern Legal Thought and Cognitive Science, 23
Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 375 (2006), SSRN
New Articles and Blog Posts:
Thomistic
Natural Law as Darwinian Natural Right: A Reply to Critics by Larry
Arnhardt
Thou Shalt Not
Share: Biological Notions in Intellectual Property Law by Hendrik
Gommer
Lost in
Translation? An Essay on Law and Neuroscience by Stephen Morse
Moral
Grammar and Human Rights: Some Reflections on Cognitive Science and
Enlightenment Rationalism by John Mikhail
The Two Faces
of Morality: How Evolutionary Theory Can Both Vindicate and Debunk Morality
by Robin Bradley Kar
A Biological Theory of Law: Natural Law Theory
Revisited by Hendrik Gommer (New) (Amazon)
This is an important book that everyone in the field should read.
The
Molecular Concept of Law by Hendrik Gommer (SSRN)
Emotion,
Neuroscience, and Law: A Comment on Darwin and Greene by John Mikhail
Talkin'
about a Revolution - Some Thoughts on Social Science, New Evolutionary Studies,
and the Law by Luca Arnaudo
Survival of the
Fairest? Evolution and the Geneticization of Rights by David
Keane
Brain Imaging
for Legal Thinkers: A Guide for the Perplexed by Owen Jones et.
al.
Evolutionary
Theory and Behavioral Biology Research: Implications for Law by
David J. Herring
Abominable
Acts by Jacob M. Heller
The Biology of
Possession: A Brief Response to Barros by Jeffrey Stake
From
the 'Is' to the 'Ought': A Biological Theory of Law by Hendrik Gommer
(Now on SSRN: Abstract)
96
Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie, 449-468 (2010)
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