David Faigman presents Neurobiology of Violence: Issues of Admissibility and the Challenge of Reasoning Group Data to Individual Decision Making (G2i) at the Colloquium on Law, Neuroscience, and Criminal Justice on March 14 -- 15, 2013 in Palo Alto, California. Professor Faigman is the John F. Digardi Distinguished Professor of Law at UC Hastings College of Law and Associate Dean of the UCSF/UC Hastings Consortium on Law, Science & Health Policy. The colloquium was sponsored by the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Law and Neuroscience and co-sponsored by the Federal Judicial Center, Vanderbilt Law School, Stanford Center for Law and the Biosciences, and the Gruter Institute for Law and Behavioral Research.

Description and Learning Objectives: This session provides an introduction to what is presently known, and unknown, about the neurobiology of violence. It will also consider when and how this expert knowledge should be considered by courts, with particular focus on the challenges of making inferences from group-averaged data for individualized adjudication. Specific learning objectives include:

• Discussion of the challenges of reasoning from group scientific data to individualized legal decision making, and presentation of the research of the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Law and Neuroscience to address this "G2i" challenge.

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